The (Big) Blue Post

Our new site in Burgess Hill is really starting to take shape. This week we've hit our first big milestone - the creation of our new BIG BLUE brewery floor.

This is a significant moment. When it comes to new brewery spaces, every brewer will tell you how obsessed they are with the quality of the brew floor. For us, it's even more meaningful.

The before and after is quite stark.

Towards the end of our time at our old HQ, our hastily constructed brew floor was well past its sell by date. Potholes had spread and navigation was tricky. When we started the company, we managed to cobble together a brewery on a budget of not very much - and one of the victims of cash cutting was the brew floor. Oh the regret! Fast forward a few years and it'd become more than a little frayed at the edges.

Here's the view a few weeks ago, as Mitch and the guys were breaking the floor area up to help restore the site to its original state.

To be honest, we didn't really need a digger - we could have lifted the floor chunks out by hand. Skip ahead to the new site, and here's the work from this week.

We've built a new raised floor and drainage system, with a pretty sophisticated top screed and a layer of blue stuff on top. It's the blue that really matters - it's a thick layer of resin that dries completely flat and smooth to prevent the build up of gunk and liquid, and makes cleaning the place more slick and dreamy. It's basically bomb proof - completely resistant to cleaning products, stray hop matter, heavy equipment dings, and more. ie, anything that might cause even the slightest nick or a hole - and then a pothole.

It's lovely and shiny too.

And supremely tactile. And its guaranteed to stay looking and feeling this good for a long, long time.

So this week we ALL HAIL BIG BLUE.

Next week we put all our big bits of stainless stell on top of it - brew kit, tanks, etc. And then hopefully we get going on some new brews.