Yards Brewing Co. is getting ready to boost beer production at its facility in Northern Liberties, but it won't be the company's roster of flagship ales filling up additional tanks at the brewhouse on Spring Garden Street.

Last week, Yards embarked on a new collaboration with two other beverage-makers — Pennsylvania's Bald Birds Brewing Co. and Connecticut's Two Roads Brewing — to offer contract services to smaller companies that need help with manufacturing and logistics. The new entity, B3 Beverage Co., builds on Yards' yearslong role as a beer producer for smaller brands in a changing — and challenging — landscape for craft beer.

"One thing we do very well is we can make other people's beer and we package it well," Yards founder and president Tom Kehoe said. "We have a very nice can

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