Construction update - New Website - Tasting Event June 28th View this email in your browser FTBC Update #4 Construction has finally begun!!

What a process!! We submitted our building plans February 4th of this year and finally "pulled the permits" last week (that's when the city officially stamped our plans and gave permission to start building). We've been working at a frantic pace since then to get the shop ready for you. Towards the bottom, you can see photos of our progress! Speaking of progress, we've put together an official website! You can find it at www.fivethreadsbrewing.com Finally, we have another tasting event coming up on June 28th from 1-5pm in Thousand Oaks! The event website is www.conejofoodandwine.com . We'll have our Red IPA, Belgian Golden Strong and Pantry Porter on tap! Construction Photos To get our permit approvals, we must separate the brewing space from the tasting room. To do this, we have to build two bathrooms in the front of our space. Bathrooms need drainage and the pipes need to go underground. So our first step was to cut the cement. (By the way, thank you to Enegren Brewing for selling us your kegs, they are working great as table legs for now!). Holy giant dominoes batman! Once the cement was cut, it was lifted out and hauled away. With the cement out of the way, the next step was to dig the trenches. Can't you just envision our two new bathrooms? From outside in, we have vent pipes for the sinks, floor drains for each bathroom and in the middle the drains for the toilets. During the brewing process, it's possible we might spill a water drop or two on the floor. This is called a trench drain, and it will channel away any spills. One of the joys of building a brewery is bringing your plans to the different county building offices for approval. Lucky for us, we were asked to install the "small" 1250 pound, sample box. Now the industrial waste department can stop by to verify we're not pouring concentrated acid down the drains!



Brewer's note: I have always wanted a full-sized man-hole cover in my brewery! And as a bonus, my daughter can go exploring for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!