by Nick Wognum
A major move, both in location and in size, is in store for Ely Liquor on Oct. 8.
Owner Eric St. Martin gave a tour of the new location in the former dollar store across from Ely DQ Grill & Chill.
Local contractors have been busy building a massive beer cave, putting in new lighting, building shelves and preparing the business.
“This building is seven times larger than what we have now,” said St. Martin. “I’ll have very little in storage here, it will be out on the shelves.”
The 30 foot by 24 foot beer cave is located to the right of the front door and can hold 36 pallets of beer.
“In the middle we’ll have the full pallets of beer like Busch Light, Hamm’s, Miller Lite and Pabst. The rest will be filled out around the edge,” said St. Martin. “It will hold way more than the old one.”
He had two cooling units installed in the beer cave, but only one is needed but wanted to add redundancy.