The HVAC team welded the black iron hood duct today. I took a little video of Carlos going to town while perched on top of our new twenty foot kitchen hood. There was also some welding in the front related to our new facade as a couple new tube steel columns went into to support new transoms and folding windows. Tomorrow the flange bases of those new columns will get covered in concrete as we pour new entryways and bases for our flower planters. The windows themselves are special orders and won't be installed for a while, but it is real important that we move this piece forward since it is lagging behind compared to the interior. The concrete crew poured the last of the staircase pans inside today including the 'grand' staircase going up to the raised booths and 2nd floor space:
The full scale drywalling of the interior begins tomorrow with the arrival of 250 sheets of rock. The tin ceiling will go up next week and then we can really begin the finish work like building booths and bringing in the new bar when it is ready. One thing that we banged out this past week is the first of several bourbon barrel walls. Using cast off barrels from Goose we deconstructed the components and are using the charred amerian white oak staves as wall coverings. Here they cover the drink rail across from the bar. When you come in and the bar is full, this is where you will be with a place to put your drink down.
Lastly, but most importantly we got our federal Brewer's Notice approved yesterday, which means we have Uncle Sam's OK to brew beer and of course pay our appropriate excise taxes. Now we just need state approval to be fully permitted to manufacture some brew. The final license is the city license to actually sell retail beer to all you lovely people, but we have 10 or so inspections to pass before we get that....