CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The joint looked like some dusty old jewel that had been polished and buffed back to life. And there was Jared Plotts doing the polishing - meticulously cleaning the moldings, not to mention the bar, the floorboards and anywhere else he saw a smudge or a spot.

"Look at this woodwork, look at this place," he said, standing in the bar area of the new West Side location of BottleHouse Brewery and Meadery. "I can't wait for people to see this."

The wait is almost over.

At 4 p.m. Tuesday, BottleHouse will make its grand opening in the former location of Sullivan's Irish Pub and Restaurant (13368 Madison Avenue, Lakewood), a popular Irish pub that closed in 2012.

The 5,000-square-foot space will include a production facility, as well as a room for events. BottleHouse will also unveil 10 new brews that day.

But first things first: The architecture and design of the place - a rich mix of stone arches, rustic design and dark woodwork that came straight out of Ireland.

"Did you know that before Prohibition there were 4,000 breweries in America?" says Plotts, the BottleHouse general manager who will oversee the Lakewood locale. "We're finally back to that point now, almost a century later."

But what does that have to do with this place or the look of it?

"Breweries were neighborhood gathering places, where you could meet and have conversations and bring your kids or your dog and this is the perfect location for that," he says, as he bends to his knees to clean a spot on the floor. "We want people to feel at home here."

The Lakewood BottleHouse will be open 4 p.m. to 1 a.m. Monday-Thursday and 2 p.m. to 2 a.m. Friday-Saturday.

Its approach will mirror the Cleveland Heights location - trivia nights, pierogis and table games to go with sour beers, meads and other beers. The Lakewood location will serve food items such as chicken paprikash and shepherd's pie, made next door by Karen King Catering.

"The neighborhoods are pretty similar in many ways and they fit what we're all about - small and very tight-knit," says Plotts, who compares his BottleHouse quad to his time in the U.S. Marines. "Everyone does a little of everything and we're not too proud to get down on our knees and clean the floors."

The same attitude extends to the drink list.

"We're not going to turn our noses up at someone because they like a certain kind of beer," says Plotts. "We're not beer snobs."

BottleHouse owner Brian Benchak opened the Cleveland Heights in 2012 with a free-flowing communal approach that includes a wide range of home brews.

"For me, it was always about the beer," says Benchak, who has developed a line of sour beers with assistant brewer Jason Kallicragas. He will sell eight of them at the Lakewood BottleHouse along with eight meads -- hence the name, BottleHouse Brewery and Mead Hall.

In 2014, BottleHouse rolled out a line of meads, the in-vogue honey wine whose origins go back to China, 6500 B.C.

"When we started making mead, it accounted for 3-4% of our sales and now it's up to 12-15%," says Benchak. "We're going to make it here, along with the beer."

Sullivan's opened in 2003, in a stretch along Madison Avenue that was known as Madison Village. The collection of shops and bars included the Space-Age-themed Capsule, which was located next to Sullivan's.

When it opened, the Irish pub seemed like a world away from the storefronts of Lakewood. The circa-1920 space -- once a gas station, a Studebaker dealership and a boat propeller repair shop - was completely retrofitted using decor from Ireland and remnant of an old bar from North Ridgeville.

"Building a bar like this isn't easy, especially in Lakewood," Patrick Sullivan told The Plain Dealer, in 2003. "The city is used to tiny storefront bars, not something so ambitious."

For years, it seemed as If the neighborhood might never get see such an ambitious space again.

It's back on Tuesday - and Plotts is determined that to have this old, dusty jewel shiny and spotless when the doors swing open.