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Big Ditch Brewing Company is a a production craft beer microbrewery located in downtown Buffalo, NY that is dedicated to providing quality, delicious, innovative, and drinkable craft beers for the Buffalo area. The Big Ditch name refers to the name given to the Erie Canal when it was first being constructed. The Canal started as an idea, but ultimately grew to become a project that put our great city of Buffalo on the map as one of the finest in the country. Erie Canal which was called Clinton's Ditch, as DeWitt Clinton was the Governor of NY that received approval to build the canal in 1817

Big Ditch Brewing was founded in 2013 by Wes Froebel, Matt Kahn and Corey Catalano after several years fine tuning the business plan. Big Ditch will launch in the Buffalo, NY market with 3 beers in August 2014. The first 3 beers will be Hayburner IPA, Excavator Rye Brown Ale and Low Bridge Hoppy Golden Ale

Big Ditch Brewery consists of a 20-barrel brewhouse manufactured by Criveller along with 5 40-barrel fermentors and a 40-barrel conditioning tank.

Big Ditch beers are distributed by Try-It Distributing in Erie and Niagara Counties of Western New York and served on draft at many of the top beer bars and restaurants such as Blue Monk, Coles, Mr. Good Bar, Pizza Plant to name a few. Big Ditch is also sold by the growler at Consumers Beverage, Village Beer Merchant, Premier Gourmet and Aurora Brew Works.