So, get this.

Last Thursday morning I’m riding my bike to the brewery, walking through the process of brewing our Greenhouse Porter for the first time. Enjoying the nice, crisp air and the quietness of east Austin at 5:45 in the morning. Pull up to the building where we rent space and I notice that all of the exterior lights are off. Get inside and I notice that all the interior lights are off as well. Construction has been ongoing on our building so I just assume that the electricians had disconnected something. I walk down the corridor that leads to the brewery and get to our front door to find it wide open and unlocked. Upon further inspection of our space I realize that all of our electricity is off as well. So, I scramble around to find my flashlight and check on the large tanks of fermenting beer that maintain temperature through a large glycol chiller on the roof. Aforementioned glycol chiller requires a large amount of electricity to operate. So, long story short with no electricity our beer has no temperature control, no bueno.

I make a few calls and start to look around the brewery with my flashlight to check on everything. As my light passes by our electrical breaker box I notice that the door to it was missing and the large electrical wires that connect the breaker box to the transformer at the back of the building is missing as well. Then it all comes together. Those electrical lines are full of copper and the three of them that are delivered to our breaker box run about 300 feet through our building before they connect to the transformer.

Ok, I’ll spare you the rest of my step by step story. Basically, some jackasses broke into our building and stole roughly 2,000 feet of copper electrical wire leaving our entire building without electricity. Luckily we were able to get our electricians over to the building by 7Am and we were back up and running by 4PM. The fermenting beer in our tanks only rose about 2 degrees and was saved from catastrophe.

So, we decided to have a party. Rather than sit around and theorize on who, what, when, where and why (actually we know a few of those) and get angry about what happened we are inviting everyone out to the brewery this Sunday for KARMA FEST! Bring your best attitude, $10 cash to get a sweet H&G pint glass, a smile and preferably a costume! Please note that there will be no parking in the brewery parking lot but there is plenty of parking in the neighborhood up and down east 6th st. within walking distance of the brewery. We are located at 507 Calles St. 78702 at the dead end of east 6th.

Also, don’t forget about the Austin Beer Guide Fall Release Party tomorrow night at Draughthouse as well as the BeerTownAustin buy the beer keep the Mustache Glass night at Billy’s on Burnet this Friday, details here!

Cheers!