Slow going

I promise I'm doing stuff. I expected to find some various constraints and problems so I buffered some time into my estimated opening. Once again, I'm poised with a phone full of numbers to call as soon as the architect finishes the plans and the city grants the building permits. A friend at 75th street came in and took some pre work pictures that I'll hopefully get to put up sometime so we can have a walk down memory lane in the future.

Thanks to everyone who's stopped and talked to me about the brewery (or had to listen to me talk about it). Support like that is a huge inspiration.

And we're off...

As of Monday, I'm the proud owner of a pretty nice chunk of debt.

As of this morning, I'm the proud leasee of a property in Liberty.

So, obviously, I'm spending all my free time making phone calls, phone calls, emails and phone calls. I'm not complaining though. In fact, it's actually kind of fun to orchestrate the chaos into what sounds like a elementary school recorder band. Maybe I just need to open breweries for a living, or conduct elementary school recorder bands.

On second thought, what's the fun of creating a brewery if you don't get to enjoy the final product? And also, I really don't like recorders.

The starting of a brewery

My name is Nick Vaughn, and I have a problem. I currently work at the 75th Street Brewery in Kansas City as a brewer and I've had lots of fun, but I'm having this itch. Some people call it a mid life crisis, some people call it insane, I call it something that I've wanted to do since I started brewing professionally and even if I fail at it, I need to know that I tried it. I'm talking about wanting to start my own brewery.

I have a chemical engineering degree, I worked for three and a half years at a regional specialty brewery in Boston, I've worked at a brewpub for two and a half years... but is that enough?

Answer: Probably not in and of itself, but when you plan on spending your three year old sons college money on your brewery, it makes you really want to succeed.

So I've done the research, the equations, the numbers, the thinking, the thinking, the thinking and most importantly, the convincing of the wife (although truthfully, it didn't take her long to support me). Everything is in place. I'm doing it. I'm starting my own brewery.

If you want details, you can go to http://www.doodlebrewing.com and read a bit about what I'm doing, where I'm at and what's going on.

As of right now, I'm just waiting for the bank to finalize the loan, which is in my hands right now since they need a piece of paper from another bank before they finish the approval. When that happens, everything is ready to move. The brewhouse is ready to be ordered, the location is almost locked in, the paperwork is filled out... I'm just waiting for that one magical day when I sign mucho paperwork to start this whole process and complete my succombing to my few passions in life

Making, drinking and sharing awesome craft beer with everyone.