Craft brewery planned on Bardstown Road

From LouisvilleBeer.com:

NEW BREWERY ALERT: Louisville’s getting a new craft brewery! Great Flood Brewing is opening their nano-brewery in early 2014 right on Bardstown Road (between North End Cafe and Twig & Leaf).

John W. and Scott speak with Matt, Zach and Vince, the owners of Great Flood Brewing, Louisville’s next craft brewery. Great Flood’s nano-brewery is planning to open within the next 6 months in the Douglass Loop / Deer Park area of Bardstown Road. Find out more about the beers they will be brewing, what type of place they imagine, their exact location, and their experience in the dark arts of brewing great beer.

http://louisvillebeer.com/podcast-episodes/episode-5-new-brewery-louisville/

A lack of breweries (or said another way, not enough breweries). If there is one weakness in the L'ville drinking and dining scene, this is it...Hopefully this opening will be one of many in the coming months (years).

...and then of course we have Granite City Food and Brewing, a Minneapolis based <gasp> chain of restaurants/breweries coming to Hurstborne Lane (across from Lowes). It's been several years since I visited the original (??) restaurant in MSP but my recollection is that the place was very Gordon-Biersch-ish (say that three times fast)...Not saying that is a bad thing, just trying to put some perspective on the place.

Really?

Cumberland, BBC (multi-locations), NABC, Apocalypse, NABC / Bank Street, ATG, Falls City, (coming soon) Beer Engine...and probably a few I forgot.

DD

Really?

Cumberland, BBC (multi-locations), NABC, Apocalypse, NABC / Bank Street, ATG, Falls City, (coming soon) Beer Engine...and probably a few I forgot.

DD

I had forgotten about the "Beer Engine" coming...that one has been rumored and/or in the works for so long...But comparatively speaking....Yes, really.

We went to Granite City in Kansas City in June. Food was good, service good, managers engaged. Can't speak to the beer, did not have any. We had a conversation with the manager and he said they do try to tailor to the area they are in some. While chains are not always our first choice, this seems to be a good operation.

Really?

Cumberland, BBC (multi-locations), NABC, Apocalypse, NABC / Bank Street, ATG, Falls City, (coming soon) Beer Engine...and probably a few I forgot.

DD

Red Yeti (coming to Jeffersonville) and G-B downtown. Also four bourbon distilleries (all downtown)and one brandy distillery (Butchertown) in the queue.

Really?

Cumberland, BBC (multi-locations), NABC, Apocalypse, NABC / Bank Street, ATG, Falls City, (coming soon) Beer Engine...and probably a few I forgot.

DD

To clarify....Louisville has garnered an excellent (and well deserved) national reputation as a "Foodie" city. Depending on which publications you read and the whims of the writer, Louisville is consistently being ranked among the top food destinations in the country. While there is certainly good beer brewed here, and with no disrespect intended to those already in attendance, I think you would be hard pressed to find anyone who would claim Louisville is a destination or world class brewing location. The addition of Great Flood and The Beer Engine (and to some degree Granite City) will certainly up the ante...but I still think we're a few years (and certainly a few breweries) from our beer/brewing reputation matching our food/dining reputation.

Really?

Cumberland, BBC (multi-locations), NABC, Apocalypse, NABC / Bank Street, ATG, Falls City, (coming soon) Beer Engine...and probably a few I forgot.

DD

We do have a good number of excellent craft breweries in Louisville. But compare that with the Indianapolis area (from the Brewers Guild of Indiana website):

Indianapolis: Bier Brewery, Black Acre Brewing, Broad Ripple Brewpub, Brugge Brasserie, Flat12 Bierwerks, Fountain Square Brewery, Indiana City Brewing, Rock Bottom-College Park, Rock Bottom-Downtown, Sun King Brewing, The Ram (second location), Thr3e Wise Men Brewery, Triton Brewing, Upland Brewing (Indianapolis taproom),
Carmel: Union Brewing
Fishers: The Ram
Greenwood: Oaken Barrel, Planetary Brewing
Noblesville: Barley Island
Plainfield: Black Swan Brewpub, Three Pints Brewpub

I'll ask those in the know, but is it easier to open a brewery in Indiana? I know they all need Federal approval, but is the process easier and quicker, and possible cheaper, in Indiana? We've had a heck of a boom in Indiana over the past few years, and I've been waiting for more to pop up in the Louisville area. I've seen a few start up around the state, but nowhere near the flourish that you see here, or in other states around the country.