Thursday 6/21/07

The outside of the building

David and the guys pouring the footings for the addition and truck docks.

Friday 6/22/07

Preparing to frame the foundation walls.

Wall framing in progress.

Wednesday 6/27/07

The walls being poured.

Time to cure.

Wednesday 7/11/07

Exterior work is really taking shape.  Today is big pour day.

The dock ramp is started.

The dock ramp and building addition floor are finished.

The monolithic piers for the grain silo are finished.

Monday 7/16/07

The walls of the addition start to go up.

Saturday 8/4/07

Interior demo starts.  One of four dumpsters is full.

Demo "madman" Todd won't stop for a picture.

Hugo takes a quick beer break after most of the walls have been removed for the pub.

Brother Jim and (almost) brother Don stop for a picture.

Friday 8/31

The underground plumbing work gets started.

Thursday 9/6

The first piece of equipment arrives, the new boiler.

Monday 9/17

The finishers get ready to pour the new brewery floor.

The first of 11 concrete trucks show up.

Lots of other work has progressed.  The boiler is set, the office and

tasting room walls are set,, and the plumbing rough in is complete.

Also, the concrete cutters start on adding windows and a new front door.

Monday 9/24

The new brewery floor is poured and the floor finishers start preparing for the floor coating.

Wednesday 9/26

Rich (in the middle of the picture) and his guys continues the lengthy prep work.

Monday 10/1

The floor coating goes down.

Wednesday 10/17

The grain silo arrives.

It does not look that big until it is standing up.

John (one of our drivers) gets in the action as the silo is craned off the truck.

Friday 10/26

The first trunk is waiting for us at 6:00am.

By 7:30am Gabe is starting to prep the second tank for unloading.

About 11:00am the second truck rolls in.  The lauter tun is so big the truck had severe road restrictions and could only drive at certain times.

The riggers waste no time getting the lauter tun of the truck.

This is going to be close!  As a matter of fact we made it in the door by about 1" side to side and top to bottom.

The 100 barrel fermenters are next.

Now for the hard work.  Positioning the equipment took two full days.  It all started with securing the grist case to a steel structure we had to install.

Brewer Eric takes a minute to model his new hat fashioned from our new colandria.

The final product!