Thirty years after launching its Williamsburg tasting room in 1996, Brooklyn Brewery will open the doors to its much-anticipated new home at 1 Wythe Avenue in just a few months. Located only four blocks from the brewery\u2019s longtime North 11th Street location, the new space will begin welcoming visitors with a soft opening later this summer, followed by a grand opening celebration in the fall.<\/p>\n
While the move is just down the road, the new home represents a major expansion. With nearly four times the capacity of the current location, the space gives Brooklyn Brewery room to grow beyond the traditional tasting room into something larger: a more extensive, flexible home for brewing, hospitality, food, and creative programming. Still firmly rooted in the neighborhood where the brewery has grown for more than three decades, this next iteration creates room to do more of what Brooklyn Brewery has always done best: bring people together in a place that feels both familiar and newly energized\u2014equal parts working brewery, neighborhood hangout, and cultural gathering spot.<\/p>\n
Eric Ottaway, CEO of Brooklyn Brewery, explains: “We\u2019ve spent thirty years building something special on North 11th Street, and now we have the chance to take everything we\u2019ve learned\u2014about beer, hospitality, and community\u2014and bring it to life in a space truly worthy of what we have become. Our new location will give us the room to fully realize our vision, with a kitchen, outdoor space, expanded programming, and brewing capabilities that will push us creatively in ways we never could before. It\u2019s not just a bigger building\u2014it\u2019s a bigger idea about what a brewery can be, and we\u2019re just as committed to the next thirty years as we were to the first.”<\/p>\n
One of the biggest additions is food. For the first time, a full kitchen will be part of the Brooklyn Brewery experience. Developed in collaboration with Chef Michael Ayoub, founder and chef of the iconic Brooklyn restaurants Fornino, the menu direction draws on his influence in New York\u2019s Neapolitan-style pizza movement\u2014with a focus on pizza and food designed to pair naturally with the brewery\u2019s beers. Additionally, a professional-grade dedicated demo kitchen, equipped with live-streaming capabilities as part of the AV infrastructure, will expand the brewery\u2019s culinary possibilities, opening the door to specialty collaborations and other innovative, food-forward experiences.<\/p>\n
The new home will introduce a broader bar program as well, offering beer alongside wine, cocktails, and other beverage options, making the space just as suited for dinner or a night out with friends as it is for longtime beer fans. Cultural programming will remain central to the brewery\u2019s ethos\u2014a fully integrated, venue-wide audio-visual system will connect the building\u2019s three floors, allowing Brooklyn Brewery to expand its long-running tradition of music, talks, DJ sets, and other community programming.<\/p>\n
All of this activity unfolds in a space that feels unmistakably like Brooklyn Brewery, just bigger, brighter, and ready for what\u2019s next. The new home carries forward the industrial warmth that has long defined the brewery\u2014cement floors, raw materials, and high open ceilings\u2014balanced by warmer textures and lots of natural light.<\/p>\n
Spanning the street level, lower level, and fourth floor of the building, Brooklyn Brewery\u2019s new home is anchored by the \u201cMain Hall,\u201d a large gathering space on the ground floor featuring the primary bar, a dedicated retail shop, and a wide range of seating options for everything from casual drinks to full meals. Large windows and walls of doors open the main floor to the outside, creating an airy indoor-outdoor feel that shifts with the seasons.<\/p>\n
This central hub is complemented by new outdoor offerings, including a fourth-floor terrace bar with views of Brooklyn, surrounded by greenery and ample seating for guests to gather and relax. Additional flexible event spaces across all levels allow the brewery to host everything from public events and collaborations to private gatherings and other programming\u2014often all at once.<\/p>\n
The move also significantly expands Brooklyn Brewery\u2019s brewing capabilities. Upgraded facilities will enable increased small-batch and experimental brewing, reinforcing the location\u2019s role as the global R&D center for Brooklyn Brewery, where new beers, specialty releases, and collaborations will be developed. The expanded brewing operations will also allow brewery tours to return, alongside guided tastings and other experiential events, giving visitors a closer look at the creative process that has defined the brand since its earliest days.<\/p>\n
Garrett Oliver, Brooklyn Brewery\u2019s James Beard Award-winning Brewmaster, adds: \u201cBack in 1996, the Williamsburg\/Greenpoint borderlands was a place where lots of fun stuff was happening (massive raves in abandoned buildings, anyone?), but it was a very different neighborhood then, and taxis weren\u2019t exactly lining up to take you there. The evolution over these last 30 years has been incredible, and it\u2019s exciting for us to evolve right alongside it. The new brewery gives us room to innovate with a state-of-the-art brewing facility while expanding far beyond beer alone. For me personally, it brings together my beer, wine, cocktail, and culinary sides all under one roof\u2014and I think visitors are really going to feel that energy when they walk through the doors.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beginning with a soft opening in late summer, Brooklyn Brewery will gradually bring the new space to life ahead of the grand opening celebration in the fall. Along the way, the brewery will introduce a range of recurring programming and special events, with more announcements to come soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thirty years after launching its Williamsburg tasting room in 1996, Brooklyn Brewery will open the doors to its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-236191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}