It’s been a while since we updated you on the progress. We’ve been super busy with no time to look up and enjoy any accomplishments. Destruction and construction everywhere we turn. Even now I’m writing this on a plane. Go go go.
Let’s see, the bulk electrical is complete. Meaning we’ve pulled all of the cable to its final destination and its terminated at the breaker. Oh, and the breaker now has power. The building basically had temporary power to it and thank goodness we happen to run into the electrician who ‘rigged’ it some time ago or we wouldn’t have known until it was too late.
The cold box behind the bar is installed and framed in and the bar is also framed. We’ll soon be lining that with brick and installing a concrete bar top. We started to look at tap systems to run through the wall from the cold box and then the “hey I’ve got an idea” bug bit us.
Marshall, as we’ve named him/her depending on your gender or preference I guess, is a wall mount tap that will have 11 beer faucets. “It goes to 11.” She’s made of 6” carbon steel pipe and extends through the wall into the bar’s cold box. We’ll powder coat her black and install black lights and hydraulic suspension. I may be embellishing. She’ll be mounted to the floor inside the wall because she’s a big, ridiculously heavy broad. We’ll circulate water from the cold box as well as run a blower through her to keep the beer lines and taps super cool.
The store front has looked like a war zone for several weeks now. When we initially cut the windows the thing started falling apart. We quickly realized that all of the stucco had to be removed. That exposed the structural steel columns that were holding the entire store front up and thankfully so. The columns were nearly rusted through and the fix was to chip out the concrete around the baseplate and weld it all back with new steel. Finally, after over a month of “oh boy, that needs to be fixed” we’ve got the windows framed and we’re ready to put new stucco on the building. Unfortunately, we lost a lot of the old cobalt blue tile from the 50’s in all of that. We’ll have to figure something out later.
The roof is finally being replaced as I write this, I think. Sometimes people are up there, but I’m never sure if work is actually being done. We have several pieces of equipment to go up there and can’t get them installed due to the delays. The glycol chiller is a major piece of roof mounted equipment and after that gets install we’ll run all of our glycol lines to where the CLT and fermenters will soon reside.
Most of the exterior repairs and blasting has been completed and the base coat of white paint is being applied. After we’ll start paint our rendition of the old palm trees that have made this building the legend that it is. Our palm trees will basically resemble shadows of the original trees.
The production area is pretty much all complete with major construction. The 2 rooms you see here are for the boiler which will provide steam for the brewhouse and the mill room where we’ll crack the malts. Soon we’ll coat the floors and be ready to set our equipment on it.
The major brewing equipment is ready. We’re just holding the shipment until this roof gets finished. Can’t wait for the installation update on that!
We’ve also started the early stages of building the deck. All one thousand seven hundred square feet of it. Can’t wait to have one of those spectacular summer days and all of you pretty people enjoying a cerveza out there! See yall soon!
Incredible! <3 to yous and all your hard work. Hope to see opening!
Amazing guys! Keep on rockin’. Can’t wait to see it in all its glory with all those taps a flowin’…