Shifting Shelves

We have made the decision to upgrade out shelves in the middle. It has taken may very lengthy discussions and brainstorming other ideas and where our other beer specific displays will go but I think we are going to try to get shelves in the middle just like the ones we have around the perimeter. Then we can take the wire shelves and tack them on the ends sideways. Should give us enough space for all the new stuff we keep getting and the stuff we get while we travel.

Now the problem is the place we got the shelves from is having some issues of their own. I want all the shelves to match so I contacted the same company. When I called back to check on a quote I found out that they had accidentally knocked down a wall with one of their 20 thousand fork lifts!! :-O :-O

We will have to check back later.

Cheers!

It Has Been So Long

So it has been quite a while since I posted on here. I don’t even know where to begin so I will just start with what is currently in my brain and then fill in the blanks along the way 😛

I just lost 2 of my spreadsheets!!! :-O  The lat time I backed them up was on 8/22/17…

One was a list of all the invoices from our distributors.  That has been fairly easy to update but I know I have 3 checks out to the distributors that have not been cashed yet and I am not sure which invoices they are for so… Kinda a waiting game and it means my checks next week are going to be huge!

The second was a list of ALL our kegs and keg prices!!! 😦 This one is going to be a lot harder to update I will have to go invoice by invoice and scan through them all for any kegs that came in from the 22… I feel like it is at least 15.  All invoices are different and some are annoying to try to read so this is going to suck.

I guess I better start backing up my key spreadsheets daily.

Cheers!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH Craziness

Sorry I have been so insanely quiet lately. The shop is in full force and we are spending every second here to get things ready to go by August 4th.

Check out Facebook or Instagram for updates!

Cheers!

First Delivery

This is all happening so fast I feel like I can’t keep up with it here on the blog.

OK, here is a huge highlight!! We got our first delivery!!!! TJ Sheehan came through for us and dropped off our very first shipment!!

It was super exciting to see 4 pallets roll out of the truck and coming for us. And look at the size of that receipt!! :-O

And then we got to put it all “away” which really means that we put them on the shelves alphabetically still in their cases hahaha

When we get them into our inventory system we will brake apart all of the cases. Stack 3 six packs in a row and then brake one six pack down to singles to be sold separately.

Today we have Onondaga Beverage delivery and out of the blue we found a 5th distributor out of Rochester and they are actually delivering today :-O  Crazy stuff happening over here! My head is just spinning!

Got a lot of work to do!

Cheers!

 

GRAND OPENING ANNOUNCEMENT

We announced our grand opening today!!! :-O

August 4th we will welcome ALL of you into our shop to experience the love and joy of beer with us!! We will start our normal business hours of 10-8 Monday – Saturday and 12-6 Sunday.

Cheers!!

Sign Install!!

Friday was the day that this bad boy came rolling past our door! HUGE!! I saw it go by on the truck from the back of the shop and I was in shock.  I thought there was no way that was going to fit in our space.

Joel had to miss the delivery but I was super stocked to get to be at the shop to witness it all.

Up close and personal!! Look how thin it is

It looked surprisingly light for what I anticipated 

Just 2 guys. On on the crane and one in the bucket

They took the face plate off of the whole thing to make sure the lights worked. (It looks small with barley in the foreground but I assure you, it is not!)

Getting the lights to work was a hoot. There is a light switch right by where you would think the sign electric is. It does nothing. So that threw us for a bit and then the timer in the back was not set on the right time and then something else happened that I didn’t understand but they got it all working and they could put our logo on it!!

Joel made it just in time to see this part which made me really happy!

Barley was less than impressed…. Actually all the machines made him a little nervous but I think it was a healthy stress to get him used to some of the ciaos that may be going on at the shop.

This is where I stood for 90% of the install just watching in amazement.

And here it is all done!!!

COME ON IN!!! 

Now we just have to get the other 3 around the sides of the buildings and EVERYONE will be able to find us!! 😀

Super jazzed!!!

Cheers!

Shop Projects – Tasting Cart

Another idea out of the mind of Joel was this tasting cart / display shelf. It would be two carts on wheels that are hinged together. So we could open them up side by side to make a bar type space for a brewery to come in and do tastings or we could swing them shut and have a more square closed off counter that we can used for display in our shop.

We started out with making the frame.

Even though the wood is very stable as you can see below it is pretty warped too.

Then we used even more plywood to make the walls, top and bottom.

I finally got to use the drill HAHA

Walls on!

Top and bottom on!

We added a boarder to the top and bottom as well

Next is the fun part! We will be making a bottle cap mosaic on the top and sealing it up!! :-O Stay tuned!

Cheers!

Liquor License Update

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! Look Look Look!!!!! Our license is now active!!!

This is super exciting and we can not wait to start buying beer!

Cheers!

Shop Projects – Security and Growler Shelves

As we wait for our license to get approved and then transferred, we have been working on projects around the shop.

We installed our security system

We knew we needed some shelves behind the counter to put our growlers on and we wanted them to be super cool so we (Joel) came up with this cool “Russian Nesting shelves” idea where we use real logs and make 3 shelves that sort of fit together. We started by cutting our longest logs on both ends with a miter saw…. turns out it is very hard to get a log to lay on a miter saw evenly both times so we ended up with logs that would stand on their own against the floor but then had all sorts of issues at the top where we wanted to connect the shelf.

Took us a couple days of thinking and moving on to other projects and coming back to it to come up with this little guy.

We would cut the log as level as we could by sight then make sure it stood up on it’s own on the floor. Then we would bring it out to the saw and put that flat side against the bumper so that the whole cut was flush with the bumper and cut the other end where ever it was!!! IT WORKED!! Well at least it worked well enough 😛

And then we got our growlers on there and it looks AWESOME!! So stoked!!

Next on our list is to make what we are calling a tasting cart… It is by far not necessary but a really fun project that has had it’s own ups and downs. I will post that soon.

Cheers!

C License Update

I waited for a call back from the lawyer until about 3pm in Buffalo and then headed home and continued to try his office.

He did finally call me back and I explained that the SLA told me the license they sold us (for a very large amount of money) has expired and is no good.

We got off the phone rather quickly so he could do some research. He called me back after talking with the SLA himself to tell me that it is not expired.  The state of New York is just behind in paperwork and we will not lose the license. Just in case you didn’t know, once these C licenses expire that is it. They are done for good and the state doesn’t issue them anymore… they are on the endangered species list 😛

So here is where we stand: I have talked to the seller’s lawyer, I have contacted the SLA myself and I have asked my SLA consultant to look into expediting this process. I know it is just a form that the seller submitted but the SLA says they are backed up and processing anything can take a while. WHAT ARE THEY DOING OVER THERE?!?!? DON’T THEY KNOW MY BUSINESS NEEDS THIS TO OPEN!?!?!

Ok… I guess I could stop thinking so egocentrically, but right now it seems appropriate.

All we need now is the license to be renewed. We have the rest of the documentation.  And I have started making up orders for our 4 distributors! I want to order by next week AT THE LATEST!!

But I guess that is all up to the State of New York.

Cheers!