INVESTORS SURE CAPITAL REGION WILL BELLY UP TO 4 NEW BREW PUBS.(BUSINESS)

Byline: DAVID ORENSTEIN Business writer

Investors in four new brew pubs are betting big bucks that the Capital Region has a thirst for small-brewery beer.

They are spending $5 million, to be exact, and all they expect in return is that the region's beer drinkers will raise their pint glasses 2 million times in the first year.

The four pubs will open in Albany, Latham, Saratoga Springs and Schenectady over the next seven months. They will join the 2-year-old ``father'' of the local industry, the Troy Pub and Brewery on River Street, accelerating the 10-year-old national trend's invasion of the Capital Region.

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