COLUMBUS (WCMH) – Inside Commonhouse Ales’ brewery on Short Street, brewer Alex Kolada was hard at work Thursday, six days after a warehouse fire on the city’s west side destroyed 150 barrels of beer.

“Pretty big loss,” Kolada said. “It’s all replaceable. Insurance will cover all of it. But as far as time goes, we lost a lot.”

Kolada, who brews alongside his father Lenny, said Commonhouse Ales just started packaging its beer about a month ago. He said 150 barrels works out to almost 50,000 bottles of beer-six weeks’ worth of work for the brewers.

Their beer was housed in a cold-storage facility in that warehouse, where 17th Star Distributing was selling it. Kolada said he got a call about midnight after the fire started.

“At first, it really didn’t sink in until the next morning when I went over,” Kolada said. “The beer is a loss. It’s a loss. It is what it is. But the biggest thing were the kegs and the tap handles. They take time to produce. There’s only so many that we can get ahold of.”

Kolada cleaned a new shipment of kegs on Thursday as new batches of beer brewed inside the facility.

“Fortunately, we were in a position where we had brewed all those beers again and we had them in tanks, so we’re hoping really not to miss a beat,” Kolada said.

The fire is a frustrating setback for the brewery, but not one that will hold the place back for long.

“[We’re] thankful that no one was hurt, and we’ve had a huge outreach from the local brewing community,” Kolada said.

Patrick Lombardi of 17th Star Distributing spoke to NBC4 by phone Thursday and said he was busy trying to get his business back on its feet.

Commonhouse Ales donates one dollar to Columbus charities from every six-pack it sells of its flagship ale, Six.One For Good Ale.