We finished trimming out the Ouray Brewery today. Now onto touch up painting. Another week and we should have things wrapped up inside. We are planning on opening in the first week of August. Jeff will be Brewing beer this week and Kip and Sid are working diligently now to get the restaurant and kitchen together pre-opening.

Cheers, OBC

Our facility is three levels vertically. The downstairs hosts our brewery and pub. The second floor our main dining area and brewery. The third level is our rooftop patio which overlooks the Ampitheatre, Main Street, US Mountain, Abrams Mountain, Hayden Peak and Cascade Falls. We have outstanding food and beer, come check us out when you get into town.

Cheers,

OBC

In the past 2 weeks we’ve done quite a bit of work in the Ouray Brewery. We finished demolition, our architecture and engineering and plumbing in preparation for the slab. On Tuesday of last week we put re-bar and steel in the ground then poured concrete on Thursday. Framing began Monday. We are almost done downstairs.

Jeff Lockard, our brewer, has been obtaining and assembling all the components for the brewery. We have our 3 grundies and now 2 fermenters. All we need is our kettle and mash tun.

Things are looking up and we hope to have the Ouray Brewery open by June.

We’ve been searching for 5 months now for our brewing equipment and we are finally making headway thanks to the help of our Head Brewer Jeff Lockard and Tom Hennessy from the Colorado Boy Brewery in Ridgway. Jeff found 3 grundies in New Mexico and Tom acquired 2 fermentation vessels for us from the Glenwood Brewery. Now we just have to get the equipment here.8-)

After a couple of weeks tearing out the old concrete we finally have put our plumbing in the ground at the Ouray Brewery and we are pouring concrete tomorrow. We’ll start framing the Ouray Brewery next week. We are hoping to open the Ouray Brewery this summer so we are moving as fast as we can. Our brewer Jeff Lockard has slowly been obtaining all of our brewing equipment from all over the United States. Jeff will be bringing all the equipment to Ouray on a trailer once he’s acquired it all. Everyone in town is excited about the Ouray Brewery coming online and another great Ouray business opening up.

Everything is moving forward to open early summer (2010).  We look forward to seeing you and sharing some good times with a pint and some food.