Bay View's D14 Brewery will close its doors, after it celebrates its fourth anniversary

Turns out that the fourth anniversary party for D14, a brewery and pub at 2273 S. Howell Ave., is also last call.

Matt McCulloch expected to celebrate his four years in business and to announce that he was adding a restaurant to his tiny brewery.

Last week, his prospective partner backed out. 

So instead, McCulloch is shuttering the brewery Oct. 26, five days after D14's anniversary party.

"I was going to reboot," McCulloch said. "This neighborhood is changing a lot. A lot of the people who are daily drinkers or would be here to the early morning hours, they're moving out of town because they can't afford to live here." 

McCulloch said Bay View is drawing more families and professionals and people who aren't out at the pub every night. The past summer was particularly hard on business. 

McCulloch, 49, isn't crying in his beer. 

"I loved every minute of it," he said. "I always kept my head above water. This has never been about getting rich." 

McCulloch, who was a photographer and in real estate before opening D14 in 2014, said he is not sure what he will do next. 

"A big part of me just wants to sit on my butt for a couple weeks, then go get a job and work for someone else," he said.

That's not likely though. McCulloch is already planning to look at new places.

"I have a lot of equipment I would be able to reuse," he said.

McCulloch, who did all the renovations on the three-barrel brewery himself, has to be out of his location by the end of the month. 

D14 will still celebrate its four years in business on Saturday. The party begins at 7 p.m. and runs through 2 a.m. Beers on tap include a Belgian-style Chocolate Quadruple; a Biere de Chard (2015 Chardonnay barrel-aged Belgian Strong Ale), the last of the Holiday Spiced Winter Solstice (a spiced, brandy barrel-aged Barleywine), and a firkin of the Cherry Chocolate Sour Stout.