The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-12-12
The new BREWERY
Foundation of Building
Now Completed.
structure to So Butte o. Steel and
Firsproos Material Through
out-Pins Plant.

The foundations Of the main build
ing OF the new brewery are already In
position and further progress depends
largely upon the arrival OF the brew
ing company's chartered schooner with
building material from San Francisco,
which is expected during the next ten
days. The schooner has been charter
ed for a period OF eight months to be
used solely in carrying material for the
entire group Of buildings.
TONS OF MACHINERY.
One hundred and fifteen tons Of
brewing machinery will be here by the
middle of February on the schooner
St. Catherine coming around the Horn
from New York, the balance 40 arrive
by the latter part of April which will
be installed as rapidly as each floor
can be completed.
The plans and specifications have
been prepared by New York architect
whose experience in brewery plans Is
such as to enable the local incorpOrat-
ors to erect a plant which will compare
favorably with the most complete in
San Francisco.
THE MAIN BUILDING.
The main building frontinA one
hundred and five feet on Queen street,
makai OF Kawaiahao church grounds,
will be four stories in height. approx
mately eighty feet from the sidewalk
to the top OF the cornice. A skeleton
frame work Of steel will be reared and
enclosed in gray stone and brick out
side work and will be rendered as
nearly fire-proof as modern buildings
can be made.
This structure will contain the brew
ing plant power and will be refrigerat-
ed by two 25-ton dee machines. An in
dependent electric light plant is to be
installed 20 supply light and power
throughout the entire system and
water will be supplied by two artesian
wells which are contemplated to make
them absolutely Independent of the va
riable city supply.
| THE BOTTLlNG HOUSE.
At the rear Of the main building will
be the bottling house 36x50 feet, two
stories in height and built of frame
work only. A third building is intend
ed to contain the ice-making plant. 1t
will be one hundred and twenty-eight
feet long and two stories in height to
be constructed of brick. Two ice max
| ing machines of twenty-five tons capa-
city each, and the incorporates will
then be in a position to manufacture
as much ice for the market as Is at
present manufactured in Honolulu.
A FINE. BUILDING.
While of plain design and intended
only as a business structure yet the
elevation on the Queen street side
presents pleasing appearance, a stone
arch flanking the windows from the
first floor to the top of the third story.
which bears also the carved legend,
1.-THE Honolulu Brewing and Malt Com
pany."
THE FIRST FLOOR.
On the first floor is the chip cellar
where the beer Is made ready for the
market and placed in the barrels, the
racking room where the kegs are pre-
pared for delivery, and the wash-house
where all the barrels are thoroughly
cleaned by an automatic washer which
also includes an apparatus for insert
ing an electric light into the key to de-
tect any foreign substances.
A half story above the first forms a
base for the great kettle platform and
the kettle itself. This great container
holds ninety barrels of beer. or 1850
gallons, and, II necessary, can be re-
plenished with a like amount three
times a day. or total per diem OF go
barrels. This half-story also contains
a storage room where the beer is aged,
and a hop storage room where the NIL
ed barrels are kept in cold storage.
THE SECOND FLOOR.
The second floor will contain the
immense mash tun. On this floor the
beer making process Is actually begun
before IL Is cooked. In the tun the
malt is mashed and extracted. The
storage or age room continues up from
the first story into this second floor
Directly behind the mash tun Is the
brew masters ONCE SO situated that
he can keep a careful watch on the
brewing and extracting operations.
THE THIRD FLOOR,
In the third story tho fermenting
machinery is placed, This fermenta-
ton marks the first process In the
making Of beer, From this noor the
beer compound runs down by gravity
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