Balantine Brewery Completed. december 18 pictures and video

Alan,

 

Wow, fantastic work! Now I'm thirsty!

 

Cesar

 

 

Alan,

 

Looking fabulous !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

Alex

What a great project, and the talent to pull something like this off is amazing!

 

Alan iy is looking GRREEEEAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!.

 

My Alex M. is here now spending the night and he thinks your new projects "LOOKS VERY COOL"

John,Cesar,

Thank You.

Bill,

Great to here some input from Alex M.

 

Alan Graziano

 

ALAN, ALEX M. IS HERE WITH ME AND IS GOING TO STAY OVER TONIGHT. WE HAVE BEEN LOOKING AT YOUR ATSF ABBA BUILDING AND REALLY LIKES IT.

Hello Everyone,

Here are so,e more pictures of the brewery. The basis strucutre is pretty complete. The interior room is what is left to be constructed.

 

Alan Graziano

Great job!

Alan....absolutely beautiful my Friend!  If I could, I would have you and Alex come to my place and start my layout all over!!  Can't wait to see the "surprise" Alex has to add to the complex...gorgeous!

 

Alan

I passed by Alan's house yesterday, and saw this in person. It really is incredible, you can't imagine the amount of difficult detail that has gone into this structure.

 

Alan simply awesome !!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Alex

Al,

Thank you.

Alan,

Your layout is great just the way you have constructed it. I always admire the pictures of it that you put on the forum.

Alex,

You will complete the second half of this project an make it spectacular.

 

Alan Graziano

Only outstanding crafting guys. 

Here are the final pictures before this model goes over to Alex for the lighting and finishing touches.

 

Alan Graziano

Just wonderful. I love the logo on the tile wall.

Alan GREAT JOB AS USUAL!!!!!!

I think we can imagine it, but I doubt we can appreciate it in the pictures.  It looks like a real masterpiece!  The pictures are amazing, can't wait to see it in person!

 

Alan....your modeling is incredible!!  Everyone...if you will right click on his pictures above and then click on "open link in new window", you will get a huge picture that you can enlarge even more.  The details are amazing.....gorgeous!

 

Alan

Alan

Reminds me of the old Schmidts brewery.

I think you nailed the entire brewing process.

The brew tanks even have the catwalk and top manways.

The rail track into the building is a neat feature, also

 

Are the horizontal tanks for CO2?

You get 5 stars for this effort

Don,

Bill, John, and Alan,

Thank you. I wish I were better at taking pictures. This time I shut some of the lights off in the room. Maybe I should have just shut off the flash. Maybe someday I will master taking pictures but I doubt it.

Charlie,

Thanks for the stars.

I figured the horizontal tanks would be for process water. I painted them white because I did want to make all the tanks look like stainless steel.

 

Alan Graziano

Incredible work Alan. With Alex doing the lights and some other things I could only wish it was coming to me. You guys are the best.

Alan,

Beautiful construction project.

 

Popsrr,

Fantastic memorabilia and beautiful Ballentine reefer car, who made it and when did you

obtain it?

 

bluelinec4,

Great photos.

bluelinec4 and Alex M, are you both old enough to remember, or have you heard of, one of the Piel's Beer Brewery Plants having been in Stapleton?

 

Ralph  

Great Job Alan !

 

 

Yup, LNFS

Hi Alan,

 

It looks fabulous, I hope too see you tomorrow

 

Alex

This is looking great! Can't wait to see the added details! Terry

Charlie,

Since, New Jersey is a stone's throw away from Staten Island, you know what I am talking about, How?

I used to live in S.I. and frequented New Jersey at times, in the mid '60's there was a place called, I believe, The Fireside Inn, or something like that, on Route 35, just south of Pert Amboy and at the time the Four Seasons, before becoming Frankie Valle of the Four Seasons and they appeared and sang a medley of their songs, raising the roof of the place!

Also, Mrs. Jay's Circus Room.

Good times, due to mature crowds.

Ralph

My Grandfather worked in the Newark brewery from the 40s, until they went out of business. He taught me my work ethic. I never saw the brewery. For this alone, I'll be at trainstock, to see this.

My Grandfather worked in the Newark brewery from the 40s, until they went out of business. He taught me my work ethic. I never saw the brewery. For this alone, I'll be at trainstock, to see this.

Hello everyone,

 

The Ballantine brewery for the NJ Hirailers is now complete, Alan G did 90 percent of the work. Then he delivered it to me and I installed all the lighting and the rotating Ballantine beer sign. Man it look's fabulous in person. If you guys can get to the Hirailers it would be worth the trip to see it. Not to mention there absolutely beautiful layout.

The brewery should be there in a day or two. Here's some finished photo's and a short video of the rotating sign.

 

 

If it had the sound of bottling in the background, it would be perfect!

 

Great job guys, what an impressive effort!

 

It just doesn't get any better than having two great modelers combining their talents!  Alex...you "enlightened" everything just right!!

 

Both of you guys did yourselves proud and the NJHRs too!

 

Alan

Great job guys!

Very nicely done guys!!

Still think we need beer smoke! LOL

 

Amazing work!  I can't wait to see it at Trainstock!

 

--Greg

Great job, guys. Brings back memories of the old Carling Brewery that used to sit by the Baltimore Beltway. Shot of the interior lighted was right on!

Wow!

Alex and Alan that looks great! You guys certainly are very talented.
That looks like a kit it's so well put together.
The NJHirailers will be proud to have that on their layout.

Mike R

"The prettiest girl I ever saw was sipping Hoffman right through a straw"...I always remember seeing that bottle from the Garden State Parkway! That is a terrific looking Brewery!!!! Can't wait for Trainstock 

How aBout that!

Great work guys!

As Mel Allen use to say, "How a bout that".
Outstanding finished project. Great job guys. Looking forward to seeing this at Trainstock IV.