Ninkasi Brewery: Construction Photos

I was in the Whiteaker neighborhood of Eugene, Oregon today, and snapped these pictures of the Ninkasi Brewery, maker of many types of fine, craft-brewed beer and ale. This brewery was a former plumbing company headquarters in its previous life, and has had the original building extensively remodeled to incorporate a tasting room and a far more modern esthetic than its previous iteration. Construction is far from finished, though, and much more is being added to the old plumbing-company building as I write this and these pictures show. The strange thing about the location of this brewery is that it is slightly more than 100 yards from the JESCO Club, an establishment used chiefly for Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, which also has a tavern located two doors down from it. Clearly a foolish place for a building that AA meetings are held in.

 Tasting room and brewing tanks.

From the side, looks like it might be the start of the brewhouse or a bottling facility.

From the back (Blair Boulevard). 

In addition to the brewery, a warehouse appears to be under construction in the shell of this long-abandoned bakery outlet store. Little can be seen in this picture, but I was also in this area a few weeks back when most of the doors were open, revealing hundreds of gallons of beer and ale contained in single bottles, palletized six-packs and draft kegs. 

This Bridgeport beer bottle (brewed in Portland, Oregon, and a rival of Ninkasi) was lying in the grass between a sidewalk and the street across from the side of the brewery site seen in Picture #2. Oddly, there were no Ninkasi bottles in the area, or other alcoholic-beverage containers for that matter.