Renowned Nomadic Brewery Comes Home To Williamsburg

WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN — A wandering brewery is coming home to roost in East Williamsburg.

Grimm Artisanal Ales, a nomadic beer company that spent the past five years roaming from brewery to brewery, have settled down at 990 Metropolitan Ave. and will open to the public on June 30, owners announced.

Lauren and Joe Grimm will serve up drafts, sour beers, local wine, soda and Middle Eastern food from the eatery Semesa in their new 7,500-square-foot taproom, according to the restaurant website.

Their specialty sour beers are being brewed on-site and will be ready for tasting when they open Saturday at 10 a.m., along with a Samesa snack bar, owners said.

There will be an American pale ale, a double IPA with Sorachi Ace hops, an IPA nicknamed “gummy bear juice,” a golden sour beer and an orange bitters sour beer, according to the grand opening announcement on their website.

And every following Saturday the Grimm taproom will be pouring a new line of signature beers in a space overlooking the brewhouse, fermentors, and the oak barrels where they age their sour beers.

Grimm owners were able to open the space thanks to a $4.2 million loan from the New York Business Development Corporation, according to Eater.

Owners took to Instagram to promote the new taproom, which they said is now home to 110 oak barrels.

Unloading and organizing 110 oak barrels is hard work! We now have a barrel library filled with French oak wine barrels previously used for a variety of Napa whites and reds. Check out photos from the day. Our golden sour base beer is in the fermentor now. We’ll transfer to oak barrels in the next couple of weeks.
A post shared by GRIMM (@grimmales) on Jun 27, 2018 at 2:09pm PDT

Grimm will be open from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Monday, 5 p.m. to midnight Thursday and Friday, 10 a.m. to midnight Saturday, and noon to 10 p.m. Sunday.

More information is available on the Grimm website.

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