Still waiting on the builder & the Vessels to ship from China

The decorating and building of walls is still ongoing as are the electrics, we are hopefully getting the builders on site in the next week or two to start on the drains and sloping floors. The vessels from China have not yet shipped, when they ship I’d guess at 6-8 weeks on the sea followed by however long it takes to clear through customs at Liverpool Docks.

Still to do are things like ordering all the pipework and associated valves for plumbing up the glycol chiller system for cooling fermenting vessels and cold store before getting some guys on site to fill & commission the installation, not to mention a load of pipe insulation and brackets that needs fitting.

Brewery Street in Keighley

A Stones throw away from our premises is ‘Brewery Street’ just off Dalton Lane. A member of the Keighley Local History Group posted this in reply to my asking:

The Cattle family were brewers in Pocklington and commenced a complimentary business in Keighley in the Old Brewery at Cook Lane during 1869. They subsequently built the premises & Atley House in Dalton Lane opening in Spring 1873. The adjoining street being named Brewery Street. The family opened a third brewery at Seacombe some time later. Brewing ceasing at Keighley during 1903. Their best known pub in Keighley was the Hope & Anchior Halifax Road sold to the existing tenant when the brewery closed.

Wouldn’t it be good to find some old recipes!

Re-roof in progress, office paint & clutter clearing

The units are currently undergoing a re-roof by the landlord so, as you’d expect with this weather, things are getting wetter the puddles are getting bigger and I’m a little scared that rain might stop play unless the roofers get cracked on and the walls start to dry out!

This weekend has been Emma giving the office a second coat of paint, then she set too on the flaking paint outside the office… its going to be a heck of a lot of scraping and brushing!
We had a family member helping too, Julian did a fine job of removing bits of old metal brackets and conduit from the steel-work on the ceiling it was surprising how much difference it made seeing the area with less dangling clutter.

We also removed a heating duct in preparation for where the vessels will go and I finally finished my water piping around to the brewing area, only a small leak to fix around the water meter I installed and that was just because I didn’t have my biggest spanner with me.

We have the hygienic wall cladding on site now too, with MDF/timber backing hopefully arriving next week, I’ll also hope to get all the blockwork, sand and cement to site soon too so we can start building our cold-store and a small plinth where I’ll stand a tank for extra water storage.

The weekend finished with our miss-directed post being delivered by our neighbour, we got someone touting for business, and invoice and… Our HMRC Registration of our Brewery!! Yeahhh!!!

Wishbone Brewery HMRC Registration
It was dated the 15th Dec ’14 so had actually taken a matter of just a few weeks to be processed.

Burst Pipes & Office Clean

Last weekend we spent a good amount of time sorting out our 1st floor toilet block which had 9, yes 9 burst pipes. Emma spent the day giving our brewery office a really good clean so this its ready for a good lick of paint now. Meetings with builder, flooring contractor and electrician this week and all being well I should get some serious plumbing done this weekend to get water to where I’m going to want it for cask washer, cooling, sink, kettle (for making a cuppa) etc