Red Door closes its original location but will not be calling it a career

Breweries can still surprise us from time to time. Take Red Door Brewing, which suddenly dropped the news late last week that it will be closing its original brewery and taproom on Candelaria this Saturday.

Wait, what? Once we got over the initial surprise, I hustled to round up the command staff of owner Matt Biggs, head brewer Matt Meier, and operations manager Ali Cattin to find out what the heck was going on over there. We were able to sit down over some pints one last time in the old space on Thursday.

The basic plan going forward is that Red Door will now brew out of the Mother Trail production facility off 12th Street, while keeping its taprooms downtown and in Clovis operational.

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