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\nn is planning to open a taproom in Queens this fall, and a Stillwater production facility is currently in the works. For Lauren and Joe Grimm, a Grimm Artisan Ales brewery was always the plan.
\nThe homebrewing husband and wife team launched Grimm in 2013 out of their Gowanus apartment, creating recipes at home that they eventually brewed elsewhere. Because they couldn\u2019t secure a loan to open a New York City brewery, they turned to contract brewing.
\nThe Grimms established partnerships with Buzzards Bay (thanks to Dan and Marta Paquette), and then with Beltway Brewing Co.<\/p>\nwhich was built to host contract breweries. After five years of contract brewing up and down the East Coast, Joe and Lauren were able to open the Grimm taproom and brewery in East Williamsburg.Opening a physical location mitigated many of the challenges they faced while contract brewing. At their partner breweries, Joe and Lauren ceded control of their product to the hosting staff.<\/p>\n
While they still managed to release acclaimed and quality Grimm beer, many of their grander ideas were put on hold until they could open their own space. And now that they have, they\u2019ve used the brewery to experiment with top-cropping yeast, dive into canned hazy IPAs, and build an extensive barrel program. When I visited the brewery, they threw around<\/p>\n
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At one point, the only time the Grimms could interact with their customers was at festivals and events. Now, they welcome their Brooklyn neighbors into the perfectly manicured taproom, complete with potted succulents and a Samesa shawarma counter. Grimm was a recognizable brewery before; their 750 ml bottles made it across the country, supplying folks with mixed-culture sours, delicate hoppy beers, and the rotating Pop! series. The artful labels and large format bottles preceded a flavorful and intentional beer. Now, the taproom lets Joe and Lauren put a face to the beer.<\/p>\n
That we\u2019re able to move full force into barrel-aged sours, or really any mixed-fermentation sours, is so amazing. Before, we\u2019d put beer into a barrel at another brewery and not know if we\u2019d ever be able to take it out.Joe Grimm: At the kind of breweries that will do contract brewing, there\u2019s usually a lot of turnover in their staff. Whenever you get a new head brewer, they\u2019ll say, \u201cThese are my rules and I\u2019m doing things this way.\u201d Having to deal with someone else making arbitrary changes to what they\u2019re okay with process-wise is a big risk.<\/p>\n
Some of the beer we\u2019ve just released, that was beer that\u2019s over three years old. We made some of that beer with the initial head brewer down at Beltway, who was comfortable with our process, then put it in barrels, and he took off six months later.
\nWe said, \u201cOh, we have this stuff, what are we going to do with it?\u201d And the next guy wasn\u2019t comfortable with our beer so it just sat. We worked on our relationships more, they got a new guy, we bought our own blending tanks, pumps, barrel filler, and finally that beer was back in play. That sort of risk \u2014 of having someone change the rules on you \u2014 is a thing that gave us a lot of anxiety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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