Three sketches of the Pearl Brewery

I don't drink beer, but I do like drawing breweries. Well, the Pearl Brewery in San Antonio at least. Funnily enough, I seem to sketch it every two years.

The big windowless building to the left has since been demolished, though that can't be seen in the second sketch.

 
 This last one I did while visiting SA for the holidays. The plan is to turn the brewery into a hotel, and it seems as though it's well under way.

The Pearl Brewery

The once-shuttered Pearl Brewery is now home to a bunch of cool restaurants, offices and shops, as well as a campus of the Culinary Institute of America and apartments and condos.  But the best part of the area is still the part-gothic, part-industrial brewery building itself, and until now I hadn't given it the proper attention in a drawing.  There are plans to turn it into a hotel, and while I'm sure they'll retain all the 19th-century architecture, I doubt they'll keep all the cool pipes and fixtures sticking out of the sides.  So in the interest of documenting that side of the building I finally sat down the other day (in the shade) and tackled it.