Epic Boat Bar

[fireslayer]

Awesome project!

 

[akwamarina]

Sanded down the boats deck today and added the first coat of new paint, we be sanding and adding at least two more coats.
The last pic is of my little brother holding the while it gets hung. I was surprised how heavy hoods are.

 

[akwamarina]

The back of the glass support half done, the kitchen with dura flex walls, my mom is in there too, and the back of the bar, waiting on the ss sinks, ice cold plates, once they are in we will have two full bars stations.

 

[MD-Dave]

I know I am repeating myself but, that is the most amazing bar I have seen. I truly wish I lived closer.

 

[akwamarina]

Stay with your heart . Brass and sailboats mean class to me. I used a copper still for my tower so I want original when I can.

That is awesome and would be perfect, if anyone knows how I could get my hands on a brass or copper (unfunctional) still I could definitely take it off your hands and turn it into the tap tower on the boat.

 

[mforsman]

Holy smokes, best of luck in your venture. If this was anywhere close to me I'd be there nightly!

 

[akwamarina]

Lots of small stuff, finishing up some of the boat top, poured the floors and walls, etc

 

[akwamarina]

Got all the equipment in today, should have taken more pictures. Took a nice shot down on the bar while I was up string led ribbon. FYI the cheap LEDs on amazon are unbelievable for bars. We installed the LEDs on the bottom of the glass panels edge facing into the glass, so they make the whole glass glow. We are also using them to light up the wood. I will take pics when it is all lite up.

 

[solbes]

This bar totally rocks! I am officially jeaulous of people that can buy a beer there.

 

[RocketBrewer]

That is freakin' nice! I too wish I lived closer.

 

[njs170]

HOLY $#%^ That is an amazing build! Great Job!

 

[akwamarina]

The led light are cool in colors but can be cheesy we will probably just leave them on in white maybe blue, but they do more.

 

[MD-Dave]

I put similar ones under the glass on my liquor stand and you are right. It does get a bit cheesy. I usually leave them green but my kids, and a few neighbors, found the pattern that fades through 7 colors and I can't keep them from changing it to that now.

 

[LovesIPA]

Are you open yet?

 

[akwamarina]

We have tons of other lighting so we will see what we turn on what stays off. Should be interesting.

Not just yet we are days away the glass came in today and all I can say boom!

And my wife having the first beverage

 

[solbes]

Dang, looking good with that glass. I bet that stuff was spendy.

 

[akwamarina]

Lite it up last night looks cool, still need to be careful to avoid the cheese factor

 

[g-love]

I don't think the lights look cheesy in the pics. Looks damn good from where I'm sitting!

Since you're going to open soon, have you decided on what beers you'll be serving?

 

[akwamarina]

We have been every witch way on the beers. We fit 100 pounds of sand into a ten pound bag, and at the end of the day we can only realistically have 4 beers on tap and many more in bottle and cans. The 4 taps are a hotly debated topic. I would love to hear some recommendations? I feel we need one light beer, one summer beer, two nh beers. The two nh beers are the tough ones. The summer will most likely be Sam summer, it is huge here. I don't care what the light is. The nh beers are a tough one the two distributors pretty much are why it is tough. I can get into more detail on this if any one cares.
We have some great beers around here and wines, that we are going to try and have in bottles, like midnight meedery, Woodstock, candia road (my brew supple shop).

 

[bluemoose]

Smuttynose IPA

 

[rockinmarty]

Lite it up last night looks cool, still need to be careful to avoid the cheese factor

It looks f...n amazing. the glass top is beautiful and the blue LEDs give great atmosphere.

 

[jjadamsfb]

If you are going with 4 taps what you have chosen is a pretty good variety. Keep everything except the Light and Summer beers to 5gal so you can rotate often. If locals are able to come often, this will help keep giving them reasons to come by every so often.

I would try to work with Woodstock Inn and White Birch to see if you could get your hands on that, it would make drinking beer there almost a destination.

I would not worry about trying to tap Mead or anything else like that. Way too nich to waste on a short amount of taps.

 

[golfduke]

Bud light, Sam summer, revolving Woodstock or moat mtn offering, revolving portsmouth /smuttynose offering.

That was easy!

 

[akwamarina]

Adding a few more coats to the mahogany decking and assembling our tables. We made the tables and high tops out of the same disassembled NH barn that was used to build much of the Kitchen Warf looking area and to hold the boat up. We also got the TV up. Pretty much have to have a TV even tho I think it really takes away from the look.

 

[akwamarina]

Having our soft opening this weekend. Place really came together. There are a few cool details I will share in another post. We have a dam good lobster roll too.
Best part soft opening equals free beer and wine.

 

[Safa]

Visited yesterday, beautiful bar man. Could do with a few more selections on tap, but that harpoon IPA was still delicious!

Food was great too, pretty damn tasty. All in all, well done!

 

[RickH]

That whole project is truly amazing!

 

[Blue_Monkey]

Amazing! I think I could handle the 2.5 hr drive to check that out!

 

[akwamarina]

Thanks for stopping by!! We definitely could use more beers on tap. We are trying to figure out a way to have more cold storage the place is actually pretty small. We do have very cool nano brews from the craft guild, but they are in the bottle.

I am glad you enjoyed the food our cooks were a real find. It is all locally grown organic. The lobster is straight from the NH coast, and we steam and chuck them on site daily.