The Genesee Brewing fermentation tanks travelling down the Erie canal are getting closer to Rochester….tying up for the night at Lock E30 in Macedon, Wayne County. A thousand or so spectators cheered arrival of the first half-dozen tanks on their barges. The second set of tanks which started a day behind has been gradually catching […]
The big tanks are on the way. Genesee Brewing Company’s new fermentation tanks are on the Erie Canal, a dozen of them riding a string of barges from Albany to Rochester for the brewery’s $49 million modernization project. The shipment was stalled for a week by high water from the unusual spring rains. But officials […]
The $40 million upgrade of the Genesee Brewery in Rochester is about to make for an unusual shipment over the Erie Canal. A dozen huge fermentation tanks will be shipped from Albany to Rochester via the Erie Canal, which rarely sees commercial shipping traffic these days. North American Breweries says the tanks are 20 x […]