A Tour of the In-Progress Finback Brewery, Coming Soon to Glendale
We’re super excited for the new brewery coming to 78-01 77th Avenue in Glendale, so we decided to stop in and check out the progress. Finback Brewery owners and avid home brewers Basil Lee and Kevin Stafford spent 18 months searching for a brewery space in Brooklyn and Long Island City. Nearly at the point…
We’re super excited for the new brewery coming to 78-01 77th Avenue in Glendale, so we decided to stop in and check out the progress. Finback Brewery owners and avid home brewers Basil Lee and Kevin Stafford spent 18 months searching for a brewery space in Brooklyn and Long Island City. Nearly at the point of giving up, the pair stumbled upon this massive warehouse in Glendale. At 13,000 square feet, it’s actually more room than they need at the moment, but they’re excited to eventually expand and grow into the space. The brewery will feature a large tasting room, a bar, a backyard, and possibly an event space. Finback will produce a range of beer styles, including an IPA, a stout, and a smoked session. They’ve also launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund wooden barrels and additional equipment for making sour beers. They’ve been working on the space, which was totally raw when they moved in, since the summer, with an eye to opening in November. After the jump, more details and photos of what what the brewery presently looks like…
A Brewery in the Works for Glendale [Q’Stoner] GMAP
A few shots of the future tasting room. All those walls went up over the summer.
Here’s where the bar will be. It’s located right in front of the “cold box,” which will be used to store the beer.
Inside the cold box.
Where the magic happens. The goal is to operate Finback as a 20-barrel brewery. Behind here, there’s a backyard but our photos didn’t turn out because it was too dark outside. Finback hopes to host BBQs in the backyard space next summer.
The future office space.
Funny, the Ridgewood and Glendale I remember had a saloon on every corner. Seems like we survived that. Guess this generation isn’t allowed to enjoy that kind of freedom.
Looking forward to it. Here’s hoping they’ll eventually be able to expand the tasting room into an actual bar, and that those living nearby will come to see the possible upside. Maybe a couple of local joints will feel some local pride and put their beer on tap, as well.
Nowhere does it say in the article that this place is going to be a beer garden. Like Anon said, I think it will be much more low key than what others are worried about happening over there. Especially since the brewery is tucked away behind houses and not anywhere near a train station – hard to get to and not much going in in those parts of Glendale.
On a side note, it is pretty cool that this is going on in Glendale. Kind of harkens back to when the parkland on Myrtle Avenue was all beer gardens way back when.
A tasting room isn’t a beer garden. Have you ever visited a microbrewery or small scale winery? They tend to be really low key operations where you can taste whatever it is their making. I’m excited to see what they do.
This is not a good thing. These owners are turning a residential neighborhood into a beer garden and all that goes with it. Noise late into the nights, traffic, parking problems and drunken patrons stumbling through the quiet streets. Have the owners been made aware of the toxic chemicals that are underneath the building and seen the DEP workers drilling across the street testing the waters below.
The community was duped. Neighbors were not made aware that the building was being turned into a bar with a backyard beer garden and BBQ. I expect that now this had been made public there will be outrage and opposition.
So true. This isn’t new and exciting news for Glendale… It’s terrible. The parking is already bad, this will only make it worse. I like that our town is a quiet residential area, last thing we need is a huge brewery.