The Gardiner Planning Board gave final approval Tuesday for Lost Orchard Brewing Co. to produce hard cider in a South Gardiner warehouse, seven months after the city originally allowed the company to open in a former church in a residential neighborhood.
Lost Orchard instead will produce most of its hard cider at the warehouse at 650 River Ave., formerly used by Associated Grocers.
The company previously had received approval to use three 1,000-gallon fermentation tanks and one finishing tank to produce up to 50,000 gallons a year in the former church, but company founder David Boucher now expects to produce 150,000 gallons of cider in the first full year of production at the warehouse.
The former Gardiner Congregational Church still will be used as a tasting room and to produce smaller batches of cider.
Boucher said last month he hopes to have cans of the hard cider, sold under the label Crabby Apple Cider, on shelves by July 4.
If that timeline goes as planned, he also hopes to open the tasting room in the Church Street property that day.
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