Infusion Brewing Salvages Abandoned Jobber’s Canyon Brewhouse

What are the odds that an abandoned brewhouse from the former Jobber’s Canyon brewery in Benson Nebraska would lie behind a brick wall at a Sushi restaurant?  Just waiting for someone to find it and salvage it….and thankfully Infusion Brewing Co did just that.  The photos are courtesy of the new brewhouse owners, Infusion Brewing Co…and the story is courtesy of Omaha.com:

Who knew that behind the brick walls and frosted glass of the Blue Sushi Sake Grill in the Old Market there dwelt an abandoned brew house, including a 7-foot-tall brew kettle and a grain hopper half-filled with stale, 5-year-old barley?

Instead of waiting for new stainless steel vats, hoppers and mash tuns to be fabricated, Baburek remembered the brewing equipment that had been the centerpiece of Jobber’s Canyon. 

The former brewpub at 420 S. 12th St. closed five years ago, and its owners left the equipment behind.

Three months ago, Baburek struck a deal with the building’s owner, DTG LLC, which also owns the brewing equipment, to buy the system and remove it, a spokesman for DTG said. The company wouldn’t say why the equipment was left in the building after the pub’s closure.