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BROOKLYN WEEKLY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2019
BY AIDAN GRAHAM
Welcome to the wild,
wild East.
A new brewery is hopping
into Gowanus! Wild
East Brewery plans to open
its tap lines in early October,
when it will welcome
Brooklyn beer fans to its
swanky new spot, said the
brewery’s co-founder.
“It’s going to be a really
sleek, streamlined,
modern design,” said Tyler
March. “We’ll have
a horseshoe shaped bar
coming off one of the side
walls, and there’s a back
wall that’s mostly glass, so
you can look straight into
the production space.”
The taproom will boast
seating for up to 90 beer
afi cionados, and will have
tap lines for 20 brews —
all of which will soon fl ow
with one of Wild East’s
hazy hop creations, said
March.
“Our niche is farmhouse
style beers. We want
to do a lot mixed fermentation,
and a lot of barrel
aging stuff,” said March.
“You can call it more rustic
style beers — cloudy,
hazy, fresh.”
March said that he and
his two brewing partners,
who have already had some
success as homebrewers,
will scour the state for as
many ingredients for their
brew as possible. The New
York hops and grains will
provide drinkers with an
unexpectedly rich taste,
according to March.
“You can get equally
high quality hops in New
York, but they’ll have a
slightly different profi le,”
he said. “So there’s an educational
component involved
with consumers,
because people might expect
ingredients to taste a
certain way. These ingredients
are just as good, but
have slightly different fl avor
profi les.”
March settled on Gowanus
as the ideal location
for the new brewery —
and not just because he
also lives in the neighborhood.
“There’s a lot of spaces
that are zoned properly
for the type of business
that we are, and that also
had enough room for a
tap room,” he said. “And,
it’s at the nexus of a lot of
other neighborhoods that
have a great demographic
for a business like this —
Park Slope, Carroll Gardens,
Boerum Hill, Cobble
Hill, etc.”
The brewhouse is still
waiting on approvals from
city bureaucrats to offi -
cially launch, but until
then, the soon-to-be beer
barons are using the space
for various promotional
events, said March.
“Leading up to our
grand opening we’ll have
a series of events — media
night, friends and family
night, industry night for
BREWMASTERS: Wild East Brewery founders Lindsay Steen, Tyler March, and Brett Taylor expect to
formally open the taps at their new Gowanus brew space in October, but you can get a sneak peek on
Sept. 17. Photo by Trey Pentecost
local industry professionals,”
he said. “And we’ll
be doing a book event with
Josh Bernstein. He’s a
pretty prolifi c beer writer
and author. So we’ll be doing
various things like
that.”
Wild East Brewing
(623 Sackett St. between
Third and Fourth avenues
in Gownaus, www.
wildeastbrewing.com).
Opening soon. Josh Bernstein’s
book release party
for “Drink Better Beer” at
Wild East Brewing. Sept.
17 at 7 p.m. $25–$35.
BREWERS GONE WILD
New Gowanus brewery prepares for October opening
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