The majority of the rough-in construction work is complete and the finals walls are now up. The HVAC team has a lot of work to do in our big building, connecting 6 units on the roof plus the hood, makeup air and brewery exhaust. Our new electrical service isn't connected yet, but the electricians should be working double time next week now that all the walls are up. Overall rough-in progress is about:
concrete: 95%
carpentry: 90%
plumbing: 95%
electrical: 30%
HVAC: 30%
The drywall crew is just getting started covering up one side of a few walls so we can move things forward. Here they are in the two-story fermentation cellar, which they finished today:
Once that is painted and the floor gets quarry tile, we can drop the tanks in from the first floor. The big copper brewhouse made its big move this week now that all of the concrete floor is poured inside. It weighs about 8000# empty (20,000# full of liquid) but moving it went pretty smooth. We put a pallet jack on each end of the 7' x 15' skid and used the forklift as a tow to move it a few inches at a time. Our walk-in coolers arrive next week along with our stone pizza oven, which also requires the forklift to put in place.
Upstairs, the grain milling room and office are framed out, which is all that we are building for the time being. I ordered a grist case today to hold our milled malt above the mash tun. A second carpentry team is working to reinstall the tin ceiling in places we had to take it down during construction. They also built a temporary wall in the front today so that we can begin working on the storefront. Next week expect to see some scaffolding and activity out front as we remove the brick front on our way to installing glass. It will be at least a month before that is completed, but it marks another turning point as we begin working in earnest in the bar area.
Aaron the bar builder stopped by today with some sample woden fist tap handles that he cut on his CNC machine. I'll get a picture up soon. He is still waiting on us to build a few soffits before starting work on the bar, which will feature big versions of the carved fist serving as columns.