Right now, it might be easy to mistake Ashley Kinart-Short for a contractor, not a brewmaster.

With the opening of the 64,000-square-foot production facility, brewpub and entertainment venue she’ll preside over on North Main Street anticipated next spring, Kinart-Short is most likely to be found these days roaming Peak Drift Brewing Co. in a brightly colored hard hat festooned with brewery logos.

“You can’t manage what you don’t measure,” Kinart-Short, announced last August as Peak Drift’s brewmaster and the second woman to hold that position in the state of South Carolina, said during a recent tour.

While excited to begin producing up to 25,000 barrels a year of IPAs, sours and other styles of beer — in addition to the hard seltzers and ciders Peak Drift also plans to offer — Kinart-Short is currently a hands-on participant in design details still being hammered out. Apart from the sheer scale of the project in the former Stone Manufacturing building, ongoing supply chain challenges and labor shortages have thrown wrenches into Peak Drift’s schedule.

“Number one, you can’t plan to get things when you don’t know which things are going to be those next things that you can’t get in time,” said Brian Johnston, vice president of operations at project contractor Mashburn Construction. “Number two, it’s hard to lock in a price, because by the time you figure out what you can get when, the cost has gone up again. Those things have made everything else a lot more challenging. … Something as simple as the overhead door or the dock levelers had extremely long lead times. Or some oddball things like the epoxy in the paint for the flooring, the resins, we couldn’t get those.”