Three for the show

A third brewery should be opening in Post Falls sometime early next year.

Construction is underway on Post Falls Brewing Company at 112 N. Spokane Street, on the north bank of the Spokane River near the Red Lion Templin’s Hotel.

“We’ve been talking about it for years. It’s kind of nice to see it materialize,” says Dan Stokes, who’s doing the project along with fellow brewer Alex Sylvain and a third partner, Steve Cervi-Skinner.

Stokes says he and Sylvain, both engineers who met as roommates at Northern Arizona University, have been brewing for about seven years.

“We were kind of doing it on the side as a hobby, and figured we’d take the leap,” he says.

They’re starting big. A 15-barrel brewhouse is on the way, along with 30-barrel fermenters for double batches.

“We definitely didn’t want to be limited by capacity,” says Stokes. “Now we just have to figure out how to sell all that beer.”

Along with North Idaho, they’ll be looking at distribution in Eastern Washington, he says.

As for styles, you can expect plenty of IPAs from the self-described hopheads.

“We tend more toward bigger beers, hoppier and higher gravity,” Stokes says. “There are some good ones around here, but we like ours better.”

Their new, 3,200-square-foot building will be all windows and glass on the west side, with river views, he says. There will be no food service in the taproom for now, though that’s a possibility down the road.

The brewery will join Downdraft and Selkirk Abbey in the Post Falls brewing ranks.