Breweries Go Big in Queens

Queens is the new home to a number of experimental, small-scale breweries, reports the New York Daily News. Here’s the roundup: Big Alice Brewing and Rockaway Brewing Company opened in Long Island City within the past year, SingleCut Beersmiths opened late last year in Astoria, Bridge and Tunnel Brewery opened in 2012 in Maspeth, and Finback Brewery is under construction in Glendale. Finback hopes to open by the end of the year. Another brewery, Queens Brewery, is actually located in Saratoga Springs, but the owner hopes to move operations to the borough by the end of 2014. SingleCut is the largest of the Queens breweries, and will brew about 3,000 barrels by the end of its first year. The owners hope to double production by the second year. Big Alice is by far the most experimental of the breweries, brewing up concoctions like a Rye Saison with Garam Masala. And as the owner of Queens Brewery says, regarding his plans to set up shop in Queens: “The whole purpose of this entire company is to put Queens on the map. We want to make Queens sexy.” Queens Brewery, following the familiar path of the Brooklyn Brewery?

Queens Now Home to Four Breweries, With Two More in the Works [NY Daily News]

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