BY ANDREW BEAM, The Daily Gazette

SCHENECTADY — A highly anticipated addition to the city’s restaurant/bar scene has finally set a date for its debut.

Druthers Brewing Company announced on its Facebook page late Tuesday night that it will open its doors to the public at 11:30 a.m. on Friday in Mohawk Harbor’s Riverhouse complex. This comes almost a year after the brewery originally said it would be open.

It was a tough road, said Druthers CEO Chris Martell. But it has ended in excitement.

“It’s one of those things where, when you get to the end of it, you’re happy as hell,” Martell said. “You appreciate the journey you went on to get there, and it makes you stronger. So, everybody [the staff] is fired up.”

The brewery has been posting progress updates on its social media pages for almost a year. There were plenty of rumors about when it was going to open, but nothing specifically from Druthers.

Martell said that’s because the project was unique for the brewery. It was hard to just rely on past experiences of opening other locations because they were installing a combined full-service restaurant and a manufacturing facility inside an 8,000-square-foot building that had people living above and a parking garage below, Martell said.

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