Health Department

We finally received Health Department this past Thursday. We tried to post this sooner, but were quite busy with all of the brew events at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver.
This is/was the last step in getting our permits from the city of Anaheim to begin/continue our buildout. The approved plans will be picked up this week from the health department and delivered to the city so that they can issue a permit for buildout.
We met with the city inspectors a week ago for a pre-construction discussion at the brewery. The information that they presented will help with various stages of the buildout inspections and should save us some time.

Health Department

We know, those are two words that scare a lot of business owners. (including us)

It is much more difficult to get through the health department in Orange County than it is in San Diego County.

We are getting very close to have this approval. We just had to clean up the finish schedule...flooring, walls, base cove, ceiling etc., figure a way to enclose our roll up door and explain our operation (mainly the tasting room). Let's just cross our fingers and hope that this latest design along with our next finish schedule submittal will work.

Finally

We are getting our approved permit for the buildout by the city today at noon! Prior to issuance, we still need to submit an approved health dept permit which we should have within a week. The requests from the health department aren't too far off and can be taken care of during a scheduled meeting that we have just after the holiday weekend.
This has been a trying process, but now can finally get cracking on getting the brewery and tasting room together.
We have had many inquiries with regard to our tasting room opening, and have remained fairly confident that it should be ready within 30 days after we obtain our building permit.
We will do a much better job posting to this blog as we progress thru our buildout.
Cheers

Almost there

Our thoughts of having our tasting room opened for the All-Star Week seems to have vanished. We picked up our plan re-submittal from the city and had full approval from Planning, Structural, Plumbing and Mechanical. We did not receive approval for Electrical and Fire.

The fire corrections aren't too much to correct with most of the corrections for remarks of various approved practices noted on to the plans as well as fire extinguisher locations.

The electrical corrections, however, are much more in depth. We had to obtain Title 24 energy calculations from a certified energy analyst. Power and lighting need to separated on the plans so that they are reflected on individual plan sheets. We included our equipment cut sheets, which includes wiring diagrams, as a separate attachment to the plans. It was noted that the wiring schematics need to be incorporated onto the plans. A single line wiring diagram will be needed for utility service and panels feeding our entire suite, it needs to include voltage, ampere rating, circuiting, phasing, AIC information, total electrical load etc. Needless to say these items consume both time and money. This will all need to have an electrical engineer or contractor certified stamp onto the plans.

We are now hoping to get the plan corrections back to the city within the next week or two, with hopes that we will not have any more corrections returned to us. If this happens in a timely manner, we can begin to pull permits to get construction of our brewery and tasting room in motion. For those who have been lucky enough to taste our product (which we are currently brewing on Dale Bros Brewing's system), thank you for your support and patience. With any luck, we can have the brewery up and running by mid-August...Cheers

Resubmittal

After some delays, we finally re-submitted our plans to the city this past Thursday. We still need to submit/attach a few needed items, but wanted to get them back into the system to get things rolling again. This set of plans was over twice as heavy as the previous set. Let's keep our fingers crossed for a quick approval.

Brew Event

We will be showcasing our brews at an upcoming brew event at Cabo Taco Baja Grill in La Mirada on the 26th of June from 6-11pm.

The lineup of brews for the event looks awesome, so make sure to get your tickets before they sell out.

Check out the link:
http://cabotacobajagrill.food.officelive.com/default.aspx

PLANS!!!

We have received out revised plans from the architect. Next it is on to deliver the revisions to both the City and to the Health Department. Our demo and buildout has been on hold until we get approval/direction from the city. We will keep you further posted on the progress of these plans.