Buffalo Bayou Adding $14-Million Expansion

From Buffalo Bayou:

You know that big open field next to the Silos on Sawyer, over by the big ART sign? Well it won’t be empty for long! We’re building a new home, and we’re finally able to tell you about it.

WHY LEAVE NOLDA?

We never planned to outgrow Nolda. 7 years ago, when we found our home at 5301 Nolda St., it was a neglected warehouse that needed some TLC. We didn’t have much money, but we poured it all into bringing that old boat storage site up to modern day building codes.

Our current home doesn’t have A/C. The floors aren’t exactly flat (so the water pools wherever it wants and we have to squeegee it to the drains), and there’s no loading dock. We don’t have a taproom, TV, or even permanent seating for guests. For five years none of the offices had windows. I don’t want to know what our staff called my dungeon of an office, but let’s just say the nicest nickname they gave me over the years was Ra’s al Ghul. We don’t have enough space to make beer and host guests at the same time, so we brew 24/6 and only open up for 7 hours a week. But it’s our home and we love it.

We never planned to outgrow Nolda, but you demanded it. We brewed more in our first year than we planned to, and you told us to brew more. We added tanks. I never wanted to can but you told us to and we obliged. Now we’re brewing more in November alone than we did in our entire first year! We’re busting at the seams here at Nolda and you’re telling us to brew more… so we will.

Growing up was there ever a time when you wanted something so bad you couldn’t think about anything else? And Mom or Dad told you to get a job and save up and you prayed for rain so the grass would grow faster so you could mow more lawns or deliver more papers or whatever you had to do to get an extra penny to save up for your dream? Then you were so close you didn’t want to tell anyone because you didn’t want to jinx it? That’s how we feel right now, and that’s why I’m so excited to finally be able share this with you.

Some of you may have heard rumors. Full story: we’ve been planning this for several years, I just didn’t want to talk publicly about our plans until we were ready to put a shovel in the ground. We made our first offer on this dream land last June, and drafted the first set of drawings November 2016. It has taken so much willpower not to overshare every step of the way!