New type of business brewing in downtown Champaign

CHAMPAIGN – Downtown Champaign could see its first microbrewery in coming months after the city council last week gave its tentative approval to creating a special liquor license category for such establishments.

Chris Knight, owner of the Blind Pig, 120 N. Walnut St., said he and his business partner, Joshi Fullop, will proceed with plans to convert a building Knight owns at 111 N. Market St. into a microbrewery to be called The Boneyard Brewery. The building is immediately north of the beer garden at Mike & Molly's.

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