Building and setting up a brewery is quite a large task. Especially when we’re doing it all ourselves and without loans or investors. It’s a long process that has already been in full swing for 4-5 months. So here’s where we’re at in regards to our brewery construction. First, I guess we should determine what all we need in total.
Brewing Equipment:
-Control Panel to control the brewing process. We have that!
-Kettles to brew in. We have 1/2 of the money towards that.
-Fermenters. We are planning on getting 2-3 after the brewery is built.
-Bottling line: Will be built during the same time window as we are assembling and acquiring our fermenters.
-Other Misc: Figure it out once we have the other stuff!
As far as the equipment we need to brew, ferment, and bottle, we’re about halfway there from a financial standpoint. As soon as we get our new kettles we really believe things will begin picking up and we can then scale up our recipes for the 1.5 barrel batches and try some commercial “homebrew” sized batches to get everything dialed in. I would imagine we’ll need some “tasters” then for feedback and help getting rid of product!
-Application process: As soon as we finish building the brewery we will begin the process. We anticipate this stage beginning shortly after the first of the new year.
All in all we plan and hope to be in production and ready to begin bringing delicious beer to you in the summer of 2014 supposing everything works out. I would imagine that we’ll have a hiccup or two along the way but we’ll be sure to keep our updates posted here.
Cheers!
