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23/08/25 09:50

Apologies in advance for the long post!
If I had a dollar for every time I saw someone looking into our windows to observe our progress, I’d be a wealthy person. Thanks to all who’ve inquired about our opening date and have shown excitement in visiting us when we do finally open. Also, thanks to all who have shown interest in joining our team. We’ll be in touch with all of you soon.
So when will we open? While I don’t have a definitive answer today, it won’t be long until we are able to make our first batches and be able to open with a limited selection. After we start brewing, it’ll be several weeks until they are ready.
One of the most important parts of opening a brewery with new equipment is the process of commissioning the equipment. In short, commissioning is required to test the equipment, make sure any automation is working, ensure all valves and sensors are talking to each other and learn to properly clean and sanitize the equipment. A week ago, Jarrod, our representative from @Paul Mueller Company spent an entire week working with Greg, our brewmaster, to make sure the equipment was in proper working order. Greg and Jarrod are in the picture. We’re happy to know that it’s all working perfectly.
That leaves just two more steps left before we can start our first brew; we still need to have our burner flue for the brewhouse fabricated and installed and second…we need water.
There are four main ingredients in beer, the quality of each is just as important than the others. They are Grains, Yeast, Hops and Water. If you don’t have quality grains, you won’t have a quality beer, if your yeast or hops are of low quality, a quality beer isn’t likely. If your water isn’t of good quality, it would be difficult to brew a quality beer.
Unfortunately, while Union Grove water isn’t bad water for any normal activities including drinking, UG water has a relatively high sodium content because the water has been softened.
For that reason, we’ve teamed up with yet another Union Grove business and have contracted with our friends @Meredith Culligan water to provide the components we need to produce reverse osmosis water to be used in our beers.
RO water is basically pure water so we’ll have the ability to build the water chemistry up to mirror the water components of countries around the world so that our beers can also mirror beers from specific regions. We just want to do it right.
We expect the RO water components to be installed next week.
I know that this is quite a bit of information but I just wanted to explain what’s going on as it relates to our opening date.
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