Construction is moving along, we are only a few weeks away from brewing our first batch!  Most of the utility work is done and next week we will have our new electric service in the building!  A lot of our equipment has arrived, we will spend the next two weeks hooking everything up.

What this means is we plan to have a little bit of beer available in late May, and then we will have as much as we can make for Philly Beer Week in June!

If you’ve been following our other social media, you may know that last week @stbenjaminbrew and @christinabrews were in Denver for the Craft Brewer’s Conference.  Lest you think it was just a week of drinking beer, we were hard at work the entire time (well, most of the time).  There was a trade show for buying the last of our equipment, educational seminars, and lots and lots of networking.  A few highlights were a session on Belgian Yeast, one on quality control hosted by Avery Brewing (who are a super nice bunch of guys) and another one hosted by one of Iron Hill’s brewers (also a super nice guy, and very helpful!).

We came back with lots of great info that we can’t wait to put into practice at the brewery.  I am sure you are all wondering when that will be.  We have more good news there, with any luck we will be brewing in a few weeks!  Construction of the brewhouse is almost complete and we just have a few small pieces of equipment to track down.  Stay tuned for pics of our first brew…

Not a ton of changes to the brewery this week, but the place has been cleaned up and ready for our floors to be coated next week.  The week after will be a big one, our equipment is being moved to the site!  We will post a ton of pictures then, the brewery will be almost complete then. We also have some pictures of our brew kettle and a fermenter that we were inspecting before our move.