The brewery as a company: the dated brewhouse stands; the entity record is a named gap

DECEMBER 2011 · 12804 SANDY COURT (ADDRESS PRINTED BOTH WAYS IN THE BANKED RECORD, UNMERGED)

The checklist's company pattern asks three things of the flagship house — an incorporation, a dated brewhouse, and, in the floor instance, a Prohibition dry close. Two of the three can be completed from the record, and the third is structurally absent. The dated brewhouse stands already, banked: Bare Hands Brewery opened in December 2011 in the Princess Way / Sandy Court industrial court, founded by South Bend native Chris Gerard, who had home-brewed for years before brewing professionally, with his wife Kim Gerard — the trade record of its first year (The Full Pint, October 3, 2012) describes the product of “over a year” of the owner's efforts to open, which places the company's formation work in 2010–11, and a later episode gives the house a second named principal: in August 2016 the City of South Bend sold the former Gates Service Center at 331 West Wayne Street for one dollar to Gerard and his business partner James Priebe, for a planned relocation of production with the Granger taproom kept — a deal the city sued to unwind in May 2018, alleging breach, with Gerard contesting it; the Granger brewhouse traded on through it all and trades still. The dry close, by contrast, has no application here and the addendum says so rather than dressing the point: Prohibition closed the floor instance's 1911 brewhouse because that house stood in 1920; this ground had no brewery for Prohibition to close — the banked predecessor search is exactly that finding — and Bare Hands, opening ninety-one years after the dry era ended, has no dry close in its course. What remains genuinely open is the incorporation itself. NAMED GAP: the entity record of Bare Hands Brewery's operating company; settling source, the Indiana Secretary of State, Business Services Division public business search (INBiz), under the brewery's legal entity name, with the Indiana Alcohol & Tobacco Commission brewer's permit record as its companion licensing settler. The gap is narrow — one portal record — and it is named at exactly that size.

Sources:

1. This build's Food & Drink leg (banked): the Bare Hands course whole, the December 2011 opening, the address printed both ways (12804 Sandy Ct in the current listing; 12801 Sandy Court and 12801 Princess Way in the 2014 press), unmerged.
2. The Full Pint, October 3, 2012 (the brewery in its first year; “over a year” of the owner's efforts to open); Indiana on Tap, May–June 2014 (Chris and Kim Gerard, owners).
3. South Bend Tribune reporting of May 2018, via E-Malt's news record (the August 2016 sale of 331 W. Wayne St for $1 to Chris Gerard and business partner James Priebe; the redevelopment commission's May 10, 2018 vote and the city's suit; Gerard's stated intention to contest; the Granger taproom to be kept under the plan).
4. Searches run November 2026 for a Secretary of State entity record for the brewery: no filing data returned by any open source; the INBiz portal identified as the record's home, its detail pages not retrievable's tools.