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In Which We Unearth the Finish Line

4/27/2016

I know what you're thinking: "man, I sure do hope I get to hear some dirt-related news this week." And the gods (specifically, the gods of perpetually delayed fermentation) must be favoring you, because that's exactly what you're gonna get!

Our dirt pile/hole is fine. That is all.

See? It's dirt in a pile, as promised.

Seriously though, the people in charge of putting in our new loading dock have set a record by making progress on this project for an unprecedented three weeks in a row. True, it's still a dirt pile next to a dirt hole, but thanks to a bunch of concrete and some other construction stuff that's going on, it's a much more orderly dirt hole. Progress!

What's more, we passed our electrical inspection! Now all we need* is the say-so from the building department** and we're ready to get brewin'! I daresay it's about dang time.

Toilin' away testing out our burners

So many shiny clean parts

Thirsty yet?

* Well, other than yeast. Yeast is pretty important around these parts.
** Which hinges on the completion of work outside, so we still have no idea how long that'll be.

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In Which We Perform a Dress Rehearsal

4/20/2016

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Hello today and welcome back to our blog! Now, if you'll recall all the way back to last week,* we had a bit of a cliffhanger situation along the lines of "will any work get done? Probably not!" Our dock had just been torn out and we were fully prepared for the parties responsible to wander off into the mist or whatever it is that contractors do when they spend six weeks being completely unresponsive, but guess what: we were wrong! Things are being done! We are confused but delighted.

We'd like to thank Pomps and his one man backhoe show for the sixty-plus feet of beautiful dirt progress.

Admittedly, the current state of affairs isn't the prettiest to behold - our lot has been transformed into a gigantic hole surrounded by similarly gigantic piles of dirt,** but it does represent some pretty big steps towards makin' the outside of our building pretty (hopefully in the form of actually getting new steps)!*** If things keep going like this,**** we might actually get to brew some dang beer before the heat death of the universe!

And, turning our focus inside the brewery for a moment, we been keepin' ourselves busy with settin' up the last bits o' equipment and testin' out some process flows. I won't bore you with details about how we CIPed the brewhouse because nobody in the world thinks that's an interesting topic of conversation, but suffice to say: most of the days ended with fewer chemical burns than we were anticipating. Success!

Obligatory photo of brewery equipment with a Home Depot bucket in the background.

Jimbo finally got to wear her jumpsuit (sorry, "speed suit")

Pictured: science!

And! Lastly but not leastly, John from People and Pints joined us over the weekend and we recorded one o' them podcasts that all the kids are talking about these days! So if you're looking to see/hear us be awkward in an entirely new medium, you should check it out!

Our podcast host, John, snapped this excellent pic of the Jimbo beer while we weren't looking. Click on it to listen to the podcast or read his blog post.

* This situation is in no way unique to last week.
** Whereas previously it had been a relatively flat dirt patch, except on days when it was raining (or relatively humid) and it turned into a lake.
*** In the words of our friends over at the Building Department, "You gotta crack a few eggs to make an omelette. And we love omelettes!"
**** And considering that we briefly toyed with the idea of renaming ourselves to Production Delays Brewing Company, we're not getting our hopes up too high.

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Not Much New, Just a Thing or Two

4/13/2016

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Is this the fourth week in a row where we tell you basically the same damned thing over and over? It sure is!* Things are moving along, albeit (as always) slower than we'd like - most/all of the "discrepancies" from last week's plumbing inspection have been resolved, and the contractors working on the outside of the building got as far as tearing out our loading dock before saying "eh, good enough" and taking the rest of the week** off. It is, as they say, business as usual.

"Major progress"

But wait! There's (slightly) more! Our ventilation system is (finally, at long last) all wired up! We still ain't finished*** the rest of our inspections, so we can't yet fire up the burners proper, but now that we're ventilated we've at least been able to take them for a test spin and whoa nelly or something I don't know

This is at half power.

* Depending on how loosely you're defining "same damned thing," you could pretty easily replace "fourth" with "seventieth."
** Even odds on whether or not I actually should have said "month."
*** Started.

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More of the Same? More of the Same!

4/6/2016

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Howdy and hello! We been sloggin' away as always, tryin' to get the Powers That Be to let us make some tasty beer for your mouths. And for once, we're a little closer to reaching that goal!

First off, fitting with the recent* theme of "things that are exciting to us but not all that interesting to hear about," we finally got our plumbing all inspected up! That's one permit down,** three*** more to go!

What's more, after a brief and confusing start, work on the outside of our building got back up and running at full speed!**** Or, at least, it did until we got a bunch of snow dumped on us. So now we've got a partially-ripped-apart loading dock that's a hop skip and a jump away from making it rather inconvenient to get in the building (the door will be five feet off the ground until a new dock happens), but that's still more progress than we had last week!

In other "news" this week: Jimbo named the fermentors and gave them faces. She may or may not have attempted to get band practice going (no one really knows what she's up to back there).

* "Recent" in this case apparently includes any events that occurred since we started writing this blog.
** Well, there were apparently some "discrepancies" with the plumbing, but we were told they weren't much of anything to worry about. So we'll see!
*** Four? Six? I lost count a while ago, to be honest.
**** "Mosey."

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In Which We Unearth the Finish Line

In Which We Perform a Dress Rehearsal

Not Much New, Just a Thing or Two

More of the Same? More of the Same!

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