The name of Ghost Train Brewing Co. was inspired by ghosts of the Magic City.

Taylor DeBoer and his wife Paige DeBoer paid homage to Birmingham's former terminal train station, a Byzantine-style structure torn down in 1969, with both the name of the brewery and one of the company's first beers.

Now the DeBoers are planning to open their own tasting room in Lakeview - and into a place that already has a spot in Birmingham's brewing history.

Ghost Train Brewing is in the process of opening its first tasting room at 2616 3rd Ave S. - the former space of Cahaba Brewing. Taylor DeBoer is a former partner at Cahaba Brewing.

"I can utilize the infrastructure that's there instead of paying people to tear it down," DeBoer said. "There was an economic reason, but the bigger reason was that I love that area. We had looked at Lakeview, but couldn't find a place in our price range."

After Cahaba announced it was moving to the Continental Gin building in Avondale, Dog Days of Birmingham announced it would be moving into the former space, but later announced it wouldn't be expanding.

By the time DeBoer had read the news that the space was available, he had looked all over town and couldn't find anywhere he wanted to be. When he read his old home base was available, he couldn't pass it up.

Ghost Train hit shelves in August, and until now, DeBoer has been contracting his brewing to Crooked Letter Brewing Co. in Ocean Springs, Mississippi.

Once Ghost Train opens in Lakeview, they'll do all their brewing on-site.

"We need a location, because we need to be making our beer here in Birmingham," DeBoer said. "The biggest thing, for me, is quality and consistency of the product."

DeBoer doesn't have a timeline quite yet - there's a lot of work to be done before opening.

ServisFirst Bank is financing the project.

DeBoer got into brewing while a student at Auburn University after he got a brewing kit as a gift - he was studying microbiology, and the science of it interested him. His day job is in marketing, but he's been in the Birmingham beer scene for years.

"I think there's space for more breweries, and I don't mean just me," DeBoer said. "I look at the growth that's going on, and I see room for several more breweries. I would love to see Birmingham become one of those cities people come to just to try the beer. I don't think we're there yet, but we could be."