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"&lt;p&gt;Shaun O’Sullivan hands a plastic cup of cloudy ale to business partner Nico Freccia, and without missing a beat, the two clink cups. Set in a hangar-like factory where Kellogg’s once manufactured Pop-Tarts and Frosted Flakes, 21st Amendment’s new brewery — or campus, as it’s been dubbed — clocks in at $30 million in construction costs, so far, and takes up more than 5 acres of industrial warehouse space. The manufacturing jobs of the last century are gone, but we’re seeing great new opportunities in advanced manufacturing and specialty food and beverage production. The new facility will propel 21st Amendment into the varsity league of Bay Area brewing giants, quintupling its capacity to more than 375,000 barrels. Production began several weeks ago; later this month, canning will commence, around the same time that a makeshift tasting room will open to the public, with food trucks and picnic tables in tow. To stay ahead of that level of competition, the Bay Area’s established craft brewers are expanding production and improving the consistency of their product. San Francisco’s historic Anchor Brewing Co. is working on a new facility on Pier 48; once it is complete in about three years, Anchor’s current production of 160,000 barrels would quadruple. The contract brewing allowed 21st Amendment to expand quickly, and its distinct cans became a staple in grocery stores across the Bay Area. Citing desires to keep growing and to brew in the region, O’Sullivan and Freccia — who both live in the East Bay — signed a 2014 deal to convert San Leandro’s former Kellogg’s factory, which closed in 1997, into their new headquarters. When the tasting room opens Friday, visitors will be able to wander around the labyrinthine brewery on a catwalk suspended above the action, so they can see the entire beer-making process, from the hop dosers to the canning line, where 500 cans will whiz by a minute. Phase two will bring the bells and whistles: the restaurant, bars, beer lab, retail area, event space, amphitheater, live music, pool tables, beer garden and new facade, all crafted by San Francisco architecture firm Aidlin Darling Design.&lt;/p&gt;"
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