Updated.

The Bier Abbey in Schenectady, shuttered by authorities last month for almost $700,000 in unpaid taxes, will reopen at 3 p.m. Thursday (8/11), according to its Facebook page. An online help-wanted ad posted Tuesday says, in part, “Reopening and Restaffing – looking for all positions immediately.”

A spokesman for the state Department of Taxation and Finance, James Gazzale, tells me the business still owes $652,947.19, meaning it has paid about $40,000 of what was owed initially, but that the department on Monday decided to allow Bier Abbey to reopen. Speaking generally, Gazzale said, a business seized for back taxes will be allowed to resume operations if owners demonstrate a good-faith effort to begin repaying the outstanding tax debt.

A message left Tuesday on the pub’s voicemail was not returned.

Its Facebook post about reopening says in part:

We may be a little less than 100% getting back up to speed but you should expect the same level of product and service moving forward. You will begin to see some changes over the coming months as we reinvent what we are doing.

When the seizure happened, on July 12, my colleague Larry Rulison reported: