A shitty beer would have to have a taste (i.e. a bad taste). Farmery has no taste.

i remember a couple summers back i got access to the pumphouse for a look around and remember thinking how amazing it would be to put a brew pub, with a design that incorporates all the massive old pumps..

i also remember thinking how an insane amount of work would be needed to gut that thing, unless there is a massive multimillion dollar grant given, there is no way anyone will put anything in there, its a shame really, its so neat inside

I haven't been in there in a long time either, when I was it was utterly full of machinery. I assume enough has been removed to make enough room for a food operation.

I remember there were cries to not tear down the steam plant, to use the building for a sound stage or something like that. When they did tear it down they removed the outer envelope first - the structure was completely packed with machinery right up to the top. I doubt it would have been possible to use that building for anything.

It seems you have disqualified yourself from further beer talks :)

Now how could a brew pub fit in there without gutting the inside? It doesn't seem possible to run an establishment with the machinery in place.

theres a pump missing from the building also

My wife is a nurse. She says hoegarden looks like the urine of someone with a uti.

Hoegaarden was the PBR/Standard/Lucky that all of the cool kids drank 15 years ago.

Every decade we need a cool bad beer.

I have and rather enjoyed it!

Damn thing seemed like it had 5000 calories!

There is currently an exhibition at the coffee shop MAKE at 751 Corydon that features designer's concept sketches - at that includes many architects - might be of interest to those here

Carbone Coal Fired Pizza has announced a second location coming soon in the Longboat controlled building at 260 St Mary Ave.

source - WFP

The article mentions that there is a second spot available in the same building and that Longboat controls the old legion (Smith at St Mary) and is considering a redevelopment with a commerical space on the main floor. If you take into account Moxie's in MTS Centre, the Exchange resturant in the basement of MTS Centre, the Shark Club, the Tavern United space, CentrePoint, Glass House and SoPo, Longboat could soon hold the leases or operate 14 resturants in the vacinity of the arena within a few years. That seems a little bit surprising but also goes to show that the current owners of the hockey tem really understand the full economics of owning a team.

Oh wait, it's Coal fired? I always thought the commercials were saying COLD fired, which makes no sense and sounded unapetizing. :cool:

It's still full of machinery, except for one minor pump.

All the equipment is in the basement though. Could put a floor over top of it easily enough.

Look closely at the picture. The equipment is all on the ground level.

Probably depends on what you define as 'ground level'. Looks to me like you could easy walk up a couple of steps from ground to be above all the machinery, no?

Having been in there recently (last summer), I can confirm that about 80-90% of the machinery is below grade.

I'm not an engineer, but I think that a floor at grade could cover most of the it, but I don't know much about supports to keep the floor up.

I see what you mean now. What restaurant/pub operator will want to pay to heat all that unusable basement space?

The head-scratching over what to do with the pumping station has been going on for quite some time now... at least a decade by my count.

The land it sits on isn't that desperately needed given that there are still some vacant lots nearby in spite of all the development that's been happening, but if no viable purpose for the building can be found in the next few years, I can't say that I'd lose any sleep over it if it were demolished to make way for a new building.