Iowa-based Big Grove Brewery is growing, opening a new taproom in Omaha this summer and one in Kansas City, Kan., in mid-2026, the company announced.

The company also announced that store directors now have the opportunity to become owners at their taproom locations. The initiative reinforces Big Grove’s commitment to local leadership, employee empowerment and development of community-rooted taprooms, the company said in a news release.

“We believe the best way to grow is by growing together,” Doug Goettsch, co-founder of Big Grove Brewery, said in the release. “Our team members are the soul of this company, and offering them this opportunity to build equity in their stores is one of the most meaningful ways we can invest back into our people.”

The new ownership program has been implemented with store directors at taprooms in Cedar Rapids (Andrew Mitchell), Des Moines (Alexi Schlesinger) and Solon (Katie Neuzil), the company announced.

Big Grove opened in 2013 with a brewhouse in Solon. Four years later, it opened a 28,000-square-foot production facility in Iowa City, where it anchors the Iowa City Riverfront Crossings redevelopment project. In July 2022, Big Grove opened a brewery and taproom at 555 17th St. in Des Moines. It expanded into Cedar Rapids in late 2023.

Construction of a new facility in Omaha is expected to be completed in time for a June opening, Big Grove said in a news release. The new taproom is at 4601 Catalyst Court in Catalyst, a mixed-use building the University of Nebraska Medical Center is developing in the shell of the former Omaha Steel Works.

In April, Big Grove opened Big Grove Coffee Co., also at 4601 Catalyst Court.

A company official declined to say where the Kansas City taproom will be located because the lease hasn’t been finalized. The official did say, however, that the taproom would be “on the Kansas side, outside of the downtown area – close suburb.”

The Kansas City, Kan., taproom is expected to open in the summer of 2026.

Big Grove, a Top 100 craft brewery nationally, has received multiple craft brewing medals, including a Great American Beer Festival gold medal for Easy Eddy, its flagship Hazy IPA.