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Brewery aims for production next week

Published:February 23, 2010, 6:49 AM

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Updated: August 21, 2010, 4:46 AM

Things are quiet at Flying Bison Brewing Co., but the brewery is expected to be back up and running under new ownership by Monday.

Shareholders at the homegrown Buffalo brewery voted to accept an offer from F. X. Matt Brewing Co., the Utica-based makers of Saranac beer. But the brewery remains in “paperwork limbo.”

“We are not producing beer right now. We’ve got to have all the i’s dotted and t’s crossed before we can get some malt in here and start making beer again,” said Tim Herzog, a founder of Flying Bison, who will stay on under an employment contract with F. X. Matt. “I’m expecting most of it to be wrapped up by the end of the week.”

Flying Bison was widely sold in grocery and convenience stores and was available on tap at more than 100 bars and restaurants. The company ran into financial difficulty, which Herzog has attributed to a sharp rise in the price of raw ingredients. Running out of money, Flying Bison stopped bottling beer late last year.

Since then, it also lost a contract to bottle product for Landmark Beer, a Syracuse company that has since moved its business to Paper City Brewery Co. in Holyoke, Mass.

F. X. Matt Co. has vowed to keep Flying Bison in Buffalo, investing in the brewery here and ramping up production and distribution.

Herzog wanted to assure concerned fans that Flying Bison wasn’t going anywhere.

“We are still at 491 Ontario St. The tanks are still here. I’m still here,” he said.

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