Late night duo team up on Bronx Brewery’s ‘Bodega Boys’ lager
BY ALEX MITCHELL
AMNEWYORK REPORTER
The two Bronx stars of late
night television have a new
project brewing — and it’s a
lager.
Desus & Mero are teaming
up with their hometown watering
hole, the Bronx Brewery
to put out a limited edition
‘Bodega Boys Beer’ on Friday,
November 15.
The brewery, whose staff
are self confessed mega-fans of
Desus Nice and The Kid Mero
say that the duo has showed
plenty of Bronx love to the
beer-makers in the past.
“We’ve been fans from the
start, and we’re excited to
brew a beer with them that
captures the same no-frills
approach that they’re famous
for,” said Damian Brown, cofounder
and president of the
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Bronx Brewery.
Desus even comes by the
brewery from time to time, according
to Kevin Scheitrum
of the Bronx Brewery. Taking
that even a step further, the
late night show will be throwing
a launch party in the brewery’s
backyard and taproom to
celebrate the new Bronx brew.
“They became heroes to the
The Kid Mero, left, and Desus Nice attend the 23rd annual Webby Awards
at Cipriani Wall Street on Monday, May 13, 2019, in New York.
Photo by Christopher Smith/Invision/AP
borough and New York City at
large by bringing the Bronx to
millions, with a sense of humor
and style all their own,”
Brown continued.
The Bronx Brewery, which
is well known throughout the
craft beer world for its iconic
and artistic can designs, also
collaborated with Desus and
Mero to produce what some
might call the most Bronx
label ever printed. Those
boys have been anything but
strangers to their old home of
the Bronx since striking national
fame on ShowTime—
they frequently come back to
anything and everything going
on socially in the borough,
such as art gallery openings
at The Compound next to the
Third Avenue Bridge in Mott
Haven.
The Bodega Boys Beer will
be available only in the Bronx
Brewery’s taproom when fi rst
released, so you’ll have to
head into Port Morris to get
this “easy-drinking and lightbodied
lager with a refreshing,
crisp fl avor.”
While you’re at the Bronx
Brewery, make sure to have
some of Jason Alicea’s legendary
Bronx empanadas from
his popup stand, Empanology.
The can design for the Bronx Brewery’s Bodega Boy’s beer collab.
Photo by The Bronx Brewery
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