Article: MARYLAND BREWHOUSE RISING LIKE FOAM : GETTING IN GEAR, MAKING CRAFT BEER.(BUSINESS)

Byline: Dale Hopper Associated Press

Brewmaster Steven Nordahl stood in the nearly empty hangar-size space of his new brewery and dreamed aloud.

``We would like to fill this with our beer,'' he said.

Behind him, crammed into one end of the Frederick Brewing Co.'s pristine $8 million plant, stood eight 200-barrel tanks. The bomb-shaped vessels would have filled the company's downtown Frederick brewery, but are dwarfed by this new plant a few miles south of the city.

Having started the microbrewery with his partners in 1992, Nordahl is watching their vision slowly take shape.

``We got into this for one reason only,'' said ...

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