USA & South Korea: Brooklyn Brewery planning brewing partnership in South Korea

New York-based Brooklyn Brewery is heading east.

On the heels of similar ventures in Norway and Finland, Brooklyn President Robin Ottaway announced the company will partner with a group of South Korean entrepreneurs to open a brewery on Jeju Island, South Korea, The Growler reported on April 18.

Similar to their other international ventures, Brooklyn plans to hire a team of brewers who will train and develop recipes under Brewmaster Garrett Oliver at their New York headquarters before heading overseas to Jeju. But the team won’t stay put for too long. According to Ottaway, “there will be a constant circulation of brewers from all four of our teams from Brooklyn, Stockholm, Trondheim, Norway, and Jeju, making up what could be the most interesting and varied craft brewing super group to ever land on the charts.”

The main draw on Jeju Island where Brooklyn is concerned is its “pure, undisturbed ground wells filled with water that has filtered unhurriedly through the volcanic island’s interior, forming a unique water source famed throughout Asia,” Ottaway wrote.

21 April, 2016