A Brewery for Mountaineer

Day Three (continued)

The bags of malt were moved from the upper level onto the main floor. The grain augers were detached from the building and the grain silo and the augers were moved inside. The "smaller" brewery items such as keg coolers, air compressor, electrical panels, glycol chiller condenser, air conditioner and condenser, grain augers, electrical cables, piping manifolds, stainless pipe, a pallet load of DE, and an endless collection of bits and pieces were loaded onto our brewery truck before the crew retired for the night.

Malt mill moved from brewery

Restacking malt on pallets

Fork lift lowered pallets of malt to floor-level

Day Four

The morning was spent picking up our tools and checking that all had been accounted for. By noon we were ready to depart Clear Lake. As seen in the first photo of Day Five, we ran into a completely unexpected snow storm south of Pittsburgh that night.

Ready to depart

Our truck now packed with several tons of small items

Brewery truck drivers Buddy and ET wished a safe trip by Gary

Day Five

Gary's Chevy Tahoe arrived in Martinsburg at 7 AM. The crane was already at the brewery. By 8 AM the first of the flatbed trucks arrived and was unloaded, hoisting each tank and placing the tanks beside the building. At 9:30 the now empty flatbed left for his next job. Shortly after 10 AM the second flatbed arrived and the crane began unloading. The second flatbed was unloaded by noon it left. With the departure of the flatbed trucks and the crane, each of the tanks were moved by fork lift through the tall service door and into the building. Our brewery truck backed down the ramp to the loading dock where all the remaining brewery items were stacked onto pallets and unloaded inside the building. The borrowed fork lift was returned and the building locked up. By 4 PM we were back at Barley and Hops. Mountaineer Brewing has its brewery.

Gary's Tahoe picked up snow during drive back	Crane lifts first tank at two points	Uprighted onto pad
Three more tanks offloaded	Second flatbed arrives	Fermenter disconnected from crane
Next-to-last of the tanks hoisted off	Greg hooks strap to crane	Gary and Greg move the malt mill
Our fork lift is hoisted off the truck	- and swung clear of the truck	Battery lowered into fork lift