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Wise Man Brewing - Brewery, Office Space, & Music Venue: Built! 
After 16 months, this project is now completed and open! And WOW it's popular! This was an adaptive-reuse project that converted the abandoned and partially collapsed 1929 Angelo Brothers Warehouse into a brewery and taproom with "for lease" office space on the top floor. Another project that proves, even with a collapsed roof and floors, you can still renovate and reuse the building! Wise Man Brewing will offer a wide variety of beers in the taproom. The first five beers include a cream ale, tropical stout, milkshake IPA, triple IPA, and dry-hopped IPA. The brewery has 16 taps and plans to offer 16 different Wise Man beers, but they currently only have 5 beers (as of yesterday), since brewing just started. They are temporarily offering other N.C., beers & ciders in the other 11 taps, until they are needed for new Wise Man brews. In Yes! Weekly, Sam Victory said “What inspired us to start our own brewery was a love of innovation and experimentation. We plan on constantly designing new beers and tweaking old recipes so that our customers always have something new and exciting to try. Founder Jason Morehead said "The challenge was to retain the existing character of the building while breathing new life into the space. We did this by repurposing many of the original building materials during the project.” You can see examples of this in the "wall of windows" that uses old windows from the building to separate the brewing space from the taproom, along with old windows from the building that display the beer menu, and a central light feature made from the building's former security bars. You can expect food trucks (today's food truck is Street Provisions), Geeks Who Drink Monday night trivia (Starting Feb 20), Tuesday yogammunity (starting Feb 21), game areas, and live music. Be sure to visit when you can.
I would like to thank Wise Man Brewing and the people who worked on the project for providing so many great updates. It was fun following this project and there were so many great craftsmen and interesting installations involved. This is a beautiful space! I'm sure many of this thread's readers will visit this business! Thank you again for providing updates!
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Credit: Wise Man Brewing
Polished concrete bar:
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All of the wood framing was recycled from the building's collapsed roof:
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The taproom has a 37 foot (11.3 metre) polished concrete bar and a 30 foot (9.2 metre) common table, made from a single tree:
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These windows, separating the brewery from the tap room, are the building's original windows:
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These are empty kegs from opening night!
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The Beer Garden:
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Credit: Wise Man Brewing
Credit: Wise Man Brewing
The next craft brewery construction project in downtown Winston-Salem should be Fiddlin' Fish Brewing Company, which is currently seeking permits at Big Winston Warehouse, in the downtown Arts District. Fiddlin' Fish is halfway through the permitting review process, as of Monday. I'm guessing they will start construction on their craft brewery in March or April?