Friday, September 11, 2015

Renovations are underway!

Plan Bee started renovations this August on the 1830's barn located on the 25 acre farm that we purchased in May 2015. Things have been moving along as we have been working on shoring up the foundation. It is amazing that the barn was built on hand laid stones with no mortar! It is beautiful work but isn't strong enough to support our new 10 bbl brew house which is due to arrive at the end of October. Steel and concrete reinforcements are needed!

In the month of September, we will be finishing up the foundation work and moving onto the brew house design. We hope to be finished and ready to go before mid October so we have time before the custom made brewing equipment from Brewmation in Fishkill arrive to the farm. Once the tanks arrive, we will work on getting the equipment up and running. We hope to brew the first batch of beer which will go into barrels before Thanksgiving. Fingers crossed!