(Dallas, TX) – Ballast Point Brewing and Lazy Magnolia Brewing are both looking at the Lone Star State as the next step in expanding distribution of their beers.

Ballast Point Sales Director, Earl Kight, told Craft Business Daily this week that the company will send beer to the Dallas and Corpus Christi markets (initially) through Andrews Distributing. Andrews handles both AB-InBev and MillerCoors in addition to some major craft players like Samuel Adams and New Belgium. Just about every big brand that you could think of…

Ballast Point production shot up 67% to 20,000 barrels last year according to The Brewers Association (New Brewer May/June 2011).

Lazy Magnolia Brewing, while not technically a regional brewery yet, is close to earning the designation with a projected 15,000 barrels of production this year. That would mark an uptick of 44% from 2010.

The Sun Herald reported earlier this month, “A year-long expansion will begin in December and will increase the brewery size from 10,000 square feet to 30,000 square feet. Capacity will be 45,000 barrels annually by 2015 and employment is expected to increase to 65.”

What to do with all that extra beer? Spread the brewery’s distribution footprint.

Lazy Magnolia told the Clarion Ledger earlier this year (via BSJ) that it was considering Texas and the Carolinas and word is this week that Lazy Magnolia is now starting to go through the red tape of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission. No further info is available at the moment (and I don’t know whether they even have a distributor yet). Stay tuned…