E-Malt.com News article: USA, NY: Greenport Brewing Company to open new location by August

Residents hoping to sit outside in the beer garden and enjoy the Greenport Brewing Company's new Peconic location will have to wait - but just a few weeks longer than originally planned, NorthFork Patch reported on May, 9.

According to Rich Vandenburgh, who owns the business with his partner John Liegey, some issues including permits pushed the project back between six weeks and two months.

The hope is to begin brewing beer at the new location by August, with the tasting room and beer garden open by early fall.

Originally, Vandenburgh had hoped to open the doors of the new location by July.

"It would have been awesome to open for the summer but just like anything, things always seem to move a little more slowly," Vandenburgh said.

Once the new location opens on Peconic Lane, the brewery's Greenport location on Carpenter Street will still remain fully operational, Vandenburgh said, with a test kitchen.

"We'll eventually wind up opening a tap room downstairs at the street level in Greenport," he said.

Since 2009, Greenport Harbor Brewing Company has been operating out of the renovated firehouse on Carpenter Street, which Vandenburgh renovated again to increase production due to demand for the craft beer. But that expansion was not enough.

Vandenburg said in February that he is also excited to create additional jobs on the North Fork.


15 May, 2013