(Chicago, IL) – Due to typical municipal red tape matters, Lagunitas Brewing’s taproom opening will be pushed back again from its original planned opening this month.

Founder, Tony Magee, tweeted on Monday, “After all the trying to get the Chi-town taproom open by June, it’s slipping back towards August after all but it’ll be a cooler space……now w/the whole 15,000,000 cubic feet being used. We hadda move stuff around & that makes for delays. Seems everything’s a moving target.”

Magee tweeted a few weeks ago that the Chicago brewhouse timeline was, “gear arrives in July, tanks in August, install and 1st brew in Oct. Fingers X’d.”

Just a couple days earlier, Magee shared that the company would expand its Chicago plans to eventually build a brewing operation capable of brewing 1.7 million barrels.

Update: new photo of the final brewery layout below from Magee: “It includes 2 brewhouses, 120-750bbl ferms, 10-1,000bbl brite tanks, 3 packaging lines, 2 keglines, a TapRoom & BeerSanctuary, & a buzz shack.”

[Photo of full Lagunitas Chicago layout by Tony Magee]