The Building of RiverWalk Brewery in Newburyport MA

Thank you all for your patience and support.  As this process is taking a bit longer than expected, we decided to give you a construction update from the Newburyport location. We are looking forward to having you all to the new brewery to drink some beers and celebrate with us. Only a few more weeks to go!

There are hundreds of things that needed to be done, but in this blog post we are going to focus on the big stuff.

Everyone knows you need a good foundation to build on. ForRiverWalk Brewing that started with jack hammering the cement to put in floor drains and covering it with a sweet looking bright blue urethane composite floor.  You can poor hot wart right on the floor and it will still be fine.

Now that is blue

Once the floor was in we could finally have our new equipment delivered – check out the new RiverWalk Brewing shiny new conical fermenters.

Aren't they pretty?

It is cleaner now!

When you brew
there is typically a lot of exhaust, so check out the awesome RiverWalk Brewing vent and duct work. Next for RiverWalkBrewing came the install of the on-demand hot water heater.  Simply dial in the temp of the water you want and BAM – you have the water you need at the temp you need when you need it!

Of course RiverWalk Brewing need somewhere to store the beer once it is made.  That is where our new modular cold room comes into play. We chose to go the modular route so we could expand the walls as we grow.

Check out Facebook to see the building of this!

There is no reason to make beer if you can’t get it to the people who want it. Check out the sweet “new to us” RiverWalk Brewing van. 

All together – here is where we are at in the back. Please note we will move all non-essential items. We should also show things like, new gain mill, labeling station, keg cleaning station, sales and marketing office set up, bringing over all the equipment (like brewing kettles) from the Amesbury location, wiring/setting up the glycerol cooling system and so many more things were done that if we kept going we would run out of space on the internet - LOL

Now that the back of the house has many of the major components in place – we go to the RiverWalk Brewing front of house.

Signage -   The sign for the front of the building is on the way, but in the interim, you can check out our RiverWalk Brewing door signage.

RiverWalk Brewing Tasting Room - What would a brewery be if there was nowhere to enjoy the beer? There are a few steps we need to get this it ready for your visit. 

1.       Paining – Painting is mostly done. It would have been much closer to done, but to be honest, I (Betsy) picked out a really BAD color. Although mint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream flavor, it does not look good on the walls. So it is off to the paint store we go, and should have that done by the end of next week.

2.       Building the bar – The bar is built, but needs to be stained to match the beautiful natural wood slab we are using as the counter top.   

3.       Keg-o-rater and Growler fridge – These are pretty much set to go and may reside in the back, but are used for the front of house.

4.       Merchandise Wall – Got to give people cool RiverWalk Brewing things to buy (think Christmas everyone)

5.       TV  set up – We will be showing the TV show Steve was on, classic RiverWalk Brewing images, as well as our awesome RiverWalk Brewing debut video, how to build a keg-o-rator – created by our awesome multi-media guru Lump.

6.       Ambiance – We have some cool stuff to see

Thank you all for your patience. We appreciate it and hope  you have enjoyed a quick view into the process of building RiverWalk Brewing!