“We basically opened a brewery in five months, it was an incredibly fast timeline.”

“The city was really easy to work with and I know Baldini’s loves doing business in Sparks,” Engler says. Occidental took over the space Baldini’s this January and got its license to brew beer shortly after.

Since it’s fairly dense, it’s expensive to ship so that’s why more local breweries are popping up everywhere,” Engler says. This is the family’s only other Occidental facility outside of its flagship brewery in Portland, and its first one in Nevada. It was relatively easy to open this location with low risk,” he adds. “We knew one of the owners from Baldini’s, our families go way back,” says Engler. With the acquisition came a 15-barrel brew house, four fermenting tanks, six Brite finishing tanks and a restaurant attached. When High Sierra Brewing Company went out of business last fall, it presented an opportunity for Occidental to move in. Its canned Kolsch and Pilsner will soon be distributed to grocery stores and liquor shops in the area. The part-owner flew down from Portland, Oregon, to oversee and help with the first canning which he said went pretty smoothly. It is a Tuesday morning and Occidental Brewing Company Proprietor Ben Engler just spent the weekend filling 300 cases of German-style beer at its new brew pub in Baldini’s Sports Casino. Occidental Brewery Proprietor Ben Engler displays one of the german style beers on tap at their location inside Baldini’s Casino in Sparks.

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