Irondale Brewing

This must be my favorite glass since it winds up in all the photos!

Generally speaking I really like my Northern Brewer Gigawort, but a small leak problem has me frustrated.

I'll co-opt a David Foster Wallace book title and file this one under "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" but something compelled me to try a double brew day.

From first breaking ground on the new garage in 2020 to finishing out the dedicated brewing space as my wife and I had time, the day finally arrived!

The last piece is finally in!

I'd never tiled anything other than a pretty simple kitchen floor job a million years ago, but thankfully my wife is super experienced with this kind of work and provided not only guidance but a ton of hands-on assistance, not to mention the rallying cry of, "Let's go do your tile!" at just the right time.

Quick update on the brewing space buildout progress -- the sink is in! My wife and I cut the hole in the countertop to drop in the sink, and then we could finally call the plumbers to come out and hook up everything including the Waterdrop RO filter and the under-sink hose bib for the wort chiller.

I finally got the time to make a big push on assembling and hanging the Ikea cabinets. Overall this went pretty smoothly, again thanks to the experience and know-how of my wife, and probably also because we had just assembled a ton of Ikea cabinets as part of our house remodel.

More random brewery build-out photos!

Acid staining the concrete floor in the brewing space proved to be a very time-consuming process, but it's finally done and I love the results.