In its early years, Tree Home outgrew one base of operations after one other. Their first business web site, in Brimfield, Massachusetts (co-founder Damien Goudreau’s barn), attracted crowds so massive they triggered pushback from the neighbors. Their second, in a member of the family’s storage in close by Monson, was too cramped to allow them to sustain with rising demand. By 2014, the 4 Tree Householders (Lanier, Goudreau, Dean Rohan, and Jonathan Weisbach) had taken the main determination to construct their very own 9,000-square-foot premises, simply down the highway. However all too quickly, the brewers wanted much more room.

By 2016, plans had been in place to construct Tree Home’s present headquarters, on a far bigger scale in each sense. Clocking in at 55,000 sq. ft, the brand new facility in Charlton, Mass., could be greater than six occasions the scale of the previous. Most brewing capability would enhance much more dramatically, by an element of 18. Reflecting the financial heft of this rising concern, the $18.5M undertaking was supported partly by a $7.7M bond from MassDevelopment. 

Constructing once more in such a brief time frame—with the purpose of making a everlasting base—gave Tree Home the chance to rethink each technical determination in its brewing operation. On this mild, one essential revision emerged: the selection of piping materials for his or her cooling loop. Tree Home had constructed its first cooling piping system from copper, historically thought to be a high-quality possibility. Nevertheless, insulating the steel pipes as wanted for the glycol loop at Tree Home proved extra troublesome than anticipated. Condensation would construct up between the pipes and the insulation, undermining effectivity and creating undesirable dripping.