It looks like Ocala and Marion County will get their first craft brewery in the coming months.
“It’ll be a two-phase opening,” said Tom McDonald, one of the owners in the new venture; yes, the same Tom McDonald who is one of the owners of Pi on Broadway, though he said the two are only tacitly related. “I’m sure if some of the Pi staff want some extra hours they’ll be welcome,” he added.
Phase one of Infinite, he said, will be a “tap room,” a sort of socializing hall with 40 craft brews on tap. This also will include a specialty “bottle shop” selling “beers not found anywhere around here,” McDonald added.
He and his partners are targeting mid-December — “by Christmas” — for phase one to open.
Then a handful of months later, perhaps in spring, phase two — the actual microbrewery — is expected to crank up. Much depends on getting the equipment, permitting and so forth.