E-Malt.com News article: USA, FL: Motorworks Brewing opens in Bradenton on January 22

Bradenton's first modern brewery, Motorworks Brewing Company, finally opens on January 22, Bradenton Herald reported on January 16.

This week the brewery is awaiting 90 bbl fermenters that are 20-foot-tall stainless steel tanks. They're so big that owners Denise and Frank Tschida hired Tom Winkler PE to cut open 8 to 12 feet through concrete floors.

The tanks are being imported and were at customs in Miami on January 15, said spokeswoman and brewery vice president Ann Altman and are expected to be installed within the week. Once the large tanks arrive this week, workers will use a gantry-style system to actually lift the tanks, pass them through an opening on the second floor back wall, and lower them into place.

The brewery is welcome news for the approximately 20 employees and for the neighborhood. Motorworks' first partnership with the village is figuring out a food partnership with neighboring Charisma Cafe.


17 January, 2014