Low Daily Beer will be among the first tenants at an exciting new project called The Yards at Belleville Station. It’s a new family-friendly food “park” being developed at Belleville’s historic train depot, alongside the Badger State Trail.

Tim Sullivan, owner of the Burlington, Wisconsin-based brewery, calls the new Belleville location the Field Office. Like the other tenants of The Yards project, Low Daily will operate out of a custom designed cargo container.

Belleville is one of Dane County’s fastest growing residential areas, and that’s fostered updates to the downtown, including renovation of the Belleville train depot, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. “The community is growing, town leaders are focused on growth, and being part of that is appealing to me,” says Sullivan.

The idea of using cargo containers in a way similar to food trucks and trailers has been gaining popularity as an eco-friendly alternative to permanent structures. Catherine Howley, owner and project manager of The Yards, says they fit well with the depot and its long-ago involvement in moving freight across the country. The containers “become part of a little campus around the depot that will encourage people to gather,” she says.

Sullivan has a taproom in Burlington and had been looking for a second location but wasn’t sure he could handle another full-sized business. The simplicity of a 20 foot by 8 foot cargo container — and the minimal investment involved — made The Yards attractive. Plus, staffing is limited to one person.

The Low Daily Field Office is among a half dozen containers that will be leased by other food and drink businesses. The containers will surround the depot, which hasn’t been used for train service since the 1940s. The restoration of the 1888 brick depot is not expected to be finished for several months, but it will become the anchor to The Yards, with space for special events and community gatherings.

The large lot, roughly an entire city block, will also feature a new children’s playground. The overall project includes a second building called The Kitchens at 130 South Vine that will serve as a commercial kitchen for small food purveyors. It’s expected to open this fall.

Sullivan hopes The Field Office can be open by late October or early November and plans to serve Tuesdays-Sundays; specific hours are not set.

Low Daily has made a name for itself with its Cowboy Cowboy, a copper-colored double dry hopped hazy IPA made with Citra, El Dorado and Mosaic hops. It packs lots of citrus flavor and is among the brewery’s stronger beers at 7% ABV.

Other beers likely to turn up at Low Daily’s Field Office include Antler Oktoberfest, a 5.5% ABV Marzen-style lager with smooth bready sweetness and nice hop balance. The brewery’s newest release, Corn Federal, is a saison made with a touch of corn and dry hopped with Barbe Rouge hops, a French varietal known for berry and citrus flavors. Sullivan says he has some of the saison aging in wine barrels for a winter release.