Across the trio of sections – distillery process area, malt storage, and tank farm – the crews of construction workers banged and clanged their tools and torqued bolts to bring form to the frame.

Each steel column was carefully leveled, aligned, and oriented – like gargantuan sculptures being precisely positioned by their creators.

Beneath each columnar foot, a special grout was cast – a dense, almost geological slurry entombing the base in a matrix of reassuring, load-transferring solidity. As the grout cured, the final torquing of the bolts marked the cosmic unification of structure and the earth.

As the days lengthened the frame was readied to start receiving its cladding, the first layer to be added is the protective roof lining.