Gainesville has two craft breweries currently, and in the following months is going to get a third.
Gainesville’s newest brewery will be spearheaded by a former homebrewer and former associate director of the University of Florida’s Honors Program John Denny. Denny and his wife will run the new brewery, christened as First Magnitude Brewing Company, along with another couple according to an article in The Florida Alligator Magazine.
The name?
The name of the business is inspired by Florida’s first-magnitude springs, which pump water at more than 100 cubic feet per second. Denny said North Central Florida has more first-magnitude springs than anywhere else in the world.
According to the brewery’s Facebook page, First Magnitude has purchased a fifteen-barrel brewing system from Portland, Oregon, and plans to open around July 2014.
The brewery plans to open at 1104 South Main Street in Gainesville.