Smuttynose Brewery: $750,970
Smuttynose Brewery in New Hampshire, which has annual sales of more than $5 million, will use three-quarters of a million dollars in federal funds to build a new buy three new brew tanks and set up sewage connections for a new location outside Portsmouth. And in New York, the Clayton Distillery Company was awarded a $99,000 grant by the Department of Agriculture to launch its liquor business. The owner of a competing new distillery said the grant to Clayton put him at a competitive disdvantage.
