Red Door opens new chapter after moving its brewing operation in 2021

It has been a little less than a year since Red Door Brewing closed its original brewery and taproom on Candelaria, moving brewing operations to the shared Mother Trail facility at 12th Street and Bellamah. Like so many other things, however, in the last two years, it can seem like a lifetime ago.

I caught up with operations manager Ali Cattin and head brewer Matt Maier at the downtown taproom last week to go over how that big move has affected everything, as well as all the other news in the past year for Red Door.

“I know this is going to shock you, but we went through a lot of change,” Cattin said.

“There’s been challenges, I can’t sugarcoat it too much,” Maier said. “We’re still able to turn out our regular beers, try to keep up with our distributor’s demands as well as the taprooms’ demands. Last year, we were able to do it, but we were under COVID regulations. This year, it’s already March and I

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