Hello and good day! We've had us another productive-as-heck week, no naps or pie required.* While we've been pluggin' and chuggin' away in order to get things ship-shape as soon as humanly possible, there's not much that's "new" or, for that matter, "completely finished."** Remember when we said our ventilation system was finally in progress? After several months' worth of delays? Well our ventilation guys are done, so now all we need to do is bring in a plumber and an electrician and then a different ventilation contractor and probably one more electrician. So that's basically wrapped up. And that new wood floor that we've been talking about? We've got more of it! All the boards are in,*** and it's looking great!
The floor was finished, but Jared insisted on luggin' lumber around in that fashion until someone took a photo.
Flooring!
In other "exciting" news, the Bone Up Paperwork Plant is back up and running! We had a brief hiatus wherein we thought we had most of our "ducks in a row," only to receive a 75-page permit application from the MWRA (the sewer sheriff) - delivered via the classic method of leaving a stack of wet paperwork in our lobby. What fun! What's more, we decided to get a head start on our pouring permit application! That's pretty exciting for us, because if it gets processed in a timely manner (it won't), we'll be able to start serving up pints in our taproom sooner than we'd expected! The downside (for us) is that we need to provide four hundred pages of supplementary documentation. And considering how many times the ABCC lost our paperwork last time,**** we'll be making good friends with all the good folks down at Kinko's!
Roughly how organized our brains are
The beer is for scale (and consolation)*****
On a related (but a little more serious) note, approval for our pouring permit depends on the results of a hearing (that's right - another dang hearing), which will be open to the public. Having been through our fair share of these things, we know that at some point the board will take comments from the public vis-à-vis whether or not the permit should be granted. So! If you're an Everett resident who would like to see our taproom fully operational (or if you know somebody who is), we'd love it if you could come out and support us! We'll probably be putting out another reminder or five as the meeting approaches, but if you're interested in helping us out, the meeting is on Monday, January 25th at 6:30 PM in Everett City Hall, 2nd floor, room 29. Hopefully we'll see you there!
*Not true.
**Or "interesting."
***Except for the ones we haven't installed yet.
****Five. Seriously.
*****Those are just the supplemental documents; we haven't even printed out the application itself yet.
**Or "interesting."
***Except for the ones we haven't installed yet.
****Five. Seriously.
*****Those are just the supplemental documents; we haven't even printed out the application itself yet.
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