​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. 

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. ​

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. 

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!

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. 

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

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!