Sage AppleJack Old Fashioned of the 2015 Young Architects Program. A trio of beer lovers have come together to begin He later attended the Siebel Institute of Technology, an a project in Long Island City that will bring new accredited brewing school, and received an education in flavors to Queens. brewing science. For the next eight years he studied and Daniel Acosta, Damon Oscarson and Gianni Rendering of Andrés traveled Jaque/around Office for the world visiting breweries. Cavicchi are the guys behind the LIC Political Beer Innovation’s COSMO,With winning the idea design of starting a brewery already in his Project, a new brewery which made its official head and wanting to create Belgian-inspired beers and BREWING launch during Queens Beer Week. American wild ales, he just wasn’t sure where he would The idea of the brewery was born after Acosta took a call home. Then, three years ago, he met Oscarson, who backpacking trip through Europe in 2004 and fell in love had also been home-brewing beers, and Cavicchi, a wine with Belgian beer. He had already been interested in craft and beer sommelier, and the idea of the brewery became beer, but while overseas, he was able to visit well-known a reality. Belgian breweries. When he came back to the United The brewery is now located in Long Island City at 39-28 States he tried some Belgian beer at a California brewery 23rd St. and its site is slated to open in June, although LIC and from there started brewing at home. Beer Project has already officially launched with three to At the time, Acosta was working in the construction four of its beers. industry and this got him interested in the process portion “I felt there was really a need for these styles of beer of making beer and how breweries are built. here in the city so we all converged and wound up here in “I had all of that behind me to help drive having the idea Long Island City and this is where it is beginning. We’re on to start a brewery,” he said. a crazy journey here,” Acosta said. “We felt that LIC was a
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