We are still plugging along. Don't let our lack of updates lead you to believe that nothing is going on. Quite the opposite. Like everyone this time of year we have been quite busy. I'll let Wayne go into further detail when we post his update later this week, but we have passed our initial plumbing inspection and much of the work on the floor has been done. All that remains is another inspection and then the concrete repour.  Once the concrete is cured we can start with the electric work and the actual setting up of the brewhouse, tanks and our cooler.

But, like I said, Wayne will get into the details on that. In the meantime meet some of our new arrivals:



We received 12, one time use, select bourbon barrels last week.



They smell freaking great! We will set aside a small portion of our brews (when the style is suitable) for barrel aging. The finished product which will show up at fests, on tap at select establishments and in very small quantities in bottles at the brewery once we open the tasting room. I'm a bit of barrel-aging nut so I can't wait to experiment with these. We will be acquiring some brandy and fresh oak barrels as well which will be better suited to oak-aging than bourbon barrels are for many of the styles we'll be brewing. Nothing would be better than having a working brewery, but it has been nice to open the brewery roll-up door in the mornings and be greeted by the bracing aroma of oak and bourbon!

We also received our first shipment of snifter glasses last week. Nothing fancy, but they accompany our pint glasses nicely. I could have taken a better picture I admit, but I was rushing out the door to get ready for Thanksgiving and for the first time in a year I didn't have the brewery foremost on my mind. It was a nice change. But, I am excited to be back at work and getting very close to the goal:



Look for an update from Wayne later in the week detailing the construction process and possibly discussing some new beer ideas. And thanks to my cousin Susan for turning me on to Black Sapote (Chocolate Pudding Fruit) and Bunchosia argentea (Peanut Butter Fruit Tree). The wheels are definitely turning and we are working on getting some of these fruits to sample and see if they might lend themselves to making some tasty beer.

Cheers,
Joey