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We won the bid on this former HISD Food Service building in October 2007, and closed on the purchase of the building in June, 2008. The three story brick facility was originally contstructed in 1914. The redevelopment effort is expected to take a year and cost a total of almost $6 million. |
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New Brewery Entrance
We will have a new entrance built at this location on the north side of the building. From this point, you will either walk a flight of stairs or take the elevator to the 2nd floor to our brand new tasting area! With broad windows overlooking the tank farm and brewhouse, you will be enchanted by our version of a German Biergarten. Prosit!
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| Entrance! Complete with stairs and access ramp |
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Future 2nd Floor Tour Hall & 3rd Floor Rooftop View
Large windows on the east walls of this vast hall will allow you to view all of our tanks and brewhouse. The 2nd floor tour hall will be air-conditioned and features plenty of bathrooms! The new biergarten inspired space will be a perfect setting for our world famous tours and events. The picture below on the right of the Houston skyline shows how close we are to center of Houston. Minute Maid Park is on the left and if you squint you can see Lance Berkman cranking a home run into the Crawford Boxes. There is no rooftop access from the 2nd floor.
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| Tour hall |
Houston skyline |
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| Punching out the east windows |
Brock's future office |
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| East Windows (for view tanks & brewhouse) |
Elevator entrance to the 2nd floor |
| The brick base of the windows (above left) is re-used bricks saved during the demolition of sections of this building. The elevator shaft is made entirely of salvaged & recycled cinder blocks |
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| Location of Main Bar! |
2nd Floor view of our new brewhouse |
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Future Packaging Floor
The expansive first floor will be the location of our bottling & kegging operations as well as grain & cold box storage. We will move our current bottling line with us to the new building. For kegging, we have purchased a brand new kegging line to be installed in the new building.
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Future Brewhouse & Tank Farm
The brewhouse and tank farm will all be housed in a new addition built onto the east side of the property where a parking lot and loading dock now sits. Our new brewery will feature a brewhouse (beer making equipment) purchased from a closed brewery in a Bavarian monastery.
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| Spur there... |
Spur gone. |
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The foundation has been poured! Below is the future location of our tank farm & brewhouse.
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See our new metal frame for the building which will house our brewhouse and tank farm. The brew house vessels (lauter tun, whirl pool, and kettle) will be placed on steel legs, so they are elevated off of the brewery floor. See the steel legs below, along with Wolfgang, our German helper!
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| Big building for big tanks = more beer! |
See part of platform for the brewhouse |
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| A crane moves in our new kettle |
Brewhouse: (l to r) kettle, lauter tun, whirl pool |
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| Stand for lauter tun & Wolfgang |
Recycled cinder blocks will make up 18ft of the new building walls; Metal panels will finish out the top |
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| Platform surrounding the brewhouse vessels |
Raised brewhouse: kettle, lauter tun, whirl pool |
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| Metal deck to hold cement |
Fresh cement poured into the brew house deck |
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| Stairs leading up to brew house from tank farm |
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Loading Dock Demolition & Prep for Support Columns
We promptly removed the later in life addition of the loading dock spur, shown below. Once this space was cleared, it gave us the space we needed for the new addition, which will house the brewhouse and tank farm. Before we lay the slab, we had to ensure the foundation would hold all the weight from our fermenters. One 120 barrel fermenter full of beer will weigh approximately 40, 000 lbs! WOW! You can see them drilling the holes below which will hold the enormous support piers below our brewhouse slab.
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