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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
Going Wild!
New farmhouse brewery to open in Gowanus
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 aficionados, and will have tap
lines for 20 brews — all of which will soon
flow 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 profile,” 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 flavor profiles.”
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
officially launch, but until then, the soonto
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 local industry professionals,” he
said. “And we’ll be doing a book event
with Josh Bernstein. He’s a pretty prolific
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.
Your entertainment
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Adams unveils scheme
BY ROSE ADAMS
You won’t smell a rat!
Borough President Eric
Adams showed off dozens of
dead rats to media assembled
outside Borough Hall on
Thursday as a demonstration
of new rat trapping technology,
which can store rodent
carcasses for months — without
causing a stink!
“It drops them into the bottom
and they’re contained in
there, there’s no scent, there’s
no smell, there’s no decaying,
there’s no spread of bacteria,”
said exterminator Anthony
Giaquinto, who joined Adams
for the macabre publicity
stunt on Sept. 5.
The metal contraption,
created by the pest control
company Rat Trap, lures rodents
with sunfl ower seeds
and nuts, before dropping
them into the box’s alcoholic
solution, which intoxicates
the rats, eventually knocking
them out and drowning them,
according to Giaquinto, who
works for Rat Trap.
“It’s quick!” exclaimed Giaquinto.
Adams claims that the
boozed-up rats drown after
about three minutes, and demonstrated
that the trap could
hold more than a dozen dead
rodents at a time.
Beyond giving the rats a
tipsy farewell, the trap’s alcoholic
solution prevents
their carcasses from smelling,
making the trap preferable
for inclosed spaces,
and attracting more beadyeyed
pests, since rats don’t
approach areas where they
smell other dead rodents, Adams
explained.
“Rats don’t go to a place
where they smell dead rats.
So when you use the rat candy
that the city uses, once a
rat dies, other rats won’t go
there,” Adams said.
The borough president’s
announcement comes after a
surge of rat sightings in Brooklyn.
According to a recent
report , anywhere between
250,000 to millions of rats
INNOVATIVE DEVICE: Animal rights activists blasted Eric Adams for his press conference last week, during which he a
live in the city, and Brooklyn
houses more rodents than any
other borough. In 2018, Brooklynites
logged more than 6,500
rat complaints to the city’s 311
complaint hotline, dwarfi ng
runner-up Manhattan’s 4,300
complaints.
Sanitations offi cials have
repeatedly tried to mitigate
the infestation crisis, shelling
out $5.3 million dollars
for mint-scented garbage
bags that supposedly deterred
the vermin, and releasing
a $32 million war on
rats in 2017 — both of which
failed to shrink the number
of pests.
At the press conference,
Adams assailed the city’s
failed extermination efforts
in claiming offi cials should
adopt his new rat killing tech.
“Something is wrong when
we continue to throw money
away on something that isn’t
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