​Howdy do, cats and kittens! It's been yet another non-stop fun parade full of meetings and hearings and paperwork and sometimes (frequently. Almost always) beer!

First up on the ol' newsfront, we crossed the first of our (probably many) hurdles on the licensing and permitting front! The short version of the story is: both the ABCC and the city liquor board approved our alteration of premises application!

The long story, as always, is here in handy-dandy Q 'n' A format:

So are you all clear to expand the taproom?
Nope!

So... what's this mean for you?
In the immediate term? Probably not a hell of a lot. We've got the permits to have alcohol in there, but there's still a ways to go before we can have people in there. If it helps, think of our set of permits like a baseball team - we just hired our goalie. 

You do know there are no goalies in baseball, right?
Of course we do, it's just been a while since we've gotten a bunch pedantic emails. 

So what's next?
Excellent question! For reasons that aren't entirely clear to us, the steps that we need to take are a closely-guarded secret in this city. In the meantime, we're just gonna keep painting every surface we touch over there!

Any idea on a timeline?
Not even a little bit! But have faith, true believers* - you'll know as soon as we do (though if it's anything like the last time we did this, we'll find out the timeline after it's already passed). ​

And on Saturday we've got more food-that-is-its-own-packaging deliciousness with the return of Spoko Pierogi!

And if you're lookin' for the "hot deets" on our "expansion progress," you'll probably be "unsurprised" to learn that it's "going slowly." It's still mostly painting and organizing, and it will be for a little ways, but we knew that. But! We're on the cusp of a potential breakthrough that might get us one step closer to finding out who we need to contact in order to find out what we need to do in order to get an appointment with the person who can tell us which forms to file in order to apply for the first of the permits we need! In other words we have a hearing with the city on Monday. Bureaucracy! 

We only signed the lease a few days ago (and there was so, so much prancing after we did), so there's still a lot to be figured out and/or planned and/or done and/or pranced about, but here's the deets we do have, presented in handy* Q 'n' A format: ​

Congratulations!
Thanks!

How much space are you adding?
We've got roughly twice as much as we used to - we took over the unit next to ours, and it's about the same dimensions as what we've got now. So... we're upgrading from Tiny to Still Pretty Durn Small. 

What specifically are you expanding?
Everything! We wanna give y'all a little more breathing room out there in the taproom, but we're equally (if not more) pinched for space behind-the-scenes (production space, cold storage, our "lab" that's just a table in the corner right now, the Nap Nook, etc.) so we're playin' it fair and doublin' up on ever'thang! More beer! More games! More seats! More tanks! Storage in any amount whatsoever! 

Also on Thursday, though admittedly a little less front-and-center for all y'all, we're celebratin' International Womens' Day (and also our involvement in/with the Pink Boots Society) by participating in the Big Boots Brewday! More to the point, Jimbo and her feisty band of fermented females (i.e. any of our female staff who happen to show up that day) are gonna brew up a big ol' batch of something tasty in celebration of this great cause!

Then on Friday we got Mr. Tamole back in the house with more tasty treats for you to eat! They're so good, you guys. ​