RIP

Ladies and Gentlemen. It is with heavy heart that I come to you today.  I regret that I must inform you of a loss of a dear brother. You lived a short but meaningful life. The burden now falls to your brothers to carry on and fight the good fight.

R.I.P. hefeweizen test batch number 2.  May your sacrifice not be in vain.

Grand Opening Oct 6th

We have had some plumbing delayings that have cost us about three weeks.  So sadly our grand opening date has slipped a little to Oct 6th.  However, we do still plan on being open for Lovettsville's Oktoberfest which is Sept 28-30.  Which if you have never been to, is a really cool family oriented thing.  I've gone the last three years, even before we were part of it, and it is a lot of fun. 

At this point we are awaiting inspections before we can close our interior walls up.  All the electrical and plumbing have been done.  ie the hard parts are done and passed inspections.  Now comes the fun part.  Setting things up and getting ready to open the doors. 

We're choosing food vendors, hiring staff, and getting last minute supplies.  Despite problem after problem after problem we'll soon be open.

We look forward to meeting all of you.

Who wants a 64 oz growler with metal flip top ?

progress update.....
fermenter room is starting to look like a fermenter room,
interior walls are all up,
plumbing is going in,
ABC part one is done, part two is underway,

slow and steady wins the race. ( I really need to upload some pics of the construction.)

Busy, busy,,,

We're busting our butts.  We got our building permits, electrical permits, plumbing, permits, health permits, ABC part 1 permit,,,,, gees makes me tired just saying them all yet alone doing all the paper work.  and I probably even forgot a few permits in that list.  Each of the above permits probably require two days per permit just to do the paper work correctly.  Hence the title of this post, busy, busy.

Now we're starting construction which is not just busy busy but also sweaty sweaty.  A lot of this early on construction phase has included crawling around in a hot attic.  And with the weather around here lately, that has not been,, enjoyable. Its barely even survivable.   Luckily we have had some very generous and brave helpers(cough bryan thanks a lot! cough).  We have torn down most of the interior walls that were already there and have rebuilt walls to isolate the brewing and kitchen areas.  The large window to allow viewing of the fermentation room is already in place. That is really helping us to keep our motivation up because its finally starting to look like a brewery.  This weekend we also installed a large mantel in the table area that is made from huge and positively heavy reclaimed oak.  

So we're getting a little further a long every day... stay tuned, same horse time, same horse channel

Tanks are here !

Our tanks have arrived.  We now have a mash tun, brew kettles, and fermenters.  That look great.  Good craftsmanship, all polished up. Exciting times.
Below are the boxes as they arrived off the truck.  and to the right is a fermenter as one side of the packaging was pulled off.    and at the bottom is the brew kettle with one side of the packaging pulled off. 

TTB APPROVED

TTB APPROVED 

Actually, we got our approval about two weeks ago.  We got an email saying it was approved and then called to confirm. and yep. We're golden.   We're just about the shortest approval I've heard of.  It took us about 35 days.  Not bad at all.  

Time to celebrate.... and then get to work.