Opening my MicroBrewery

fastricky · Mar 31, 2012

Long story short:

Years ago, knowing I deeply disliked my then career (advertising) I decided to pursue my love of American Craft Beer and homebrewing.

I became a brewer in a fairly large local microbrewery. Eventually I quit to open my own brewery.

I am now in the process of building out that microbrewery here in the NYC area (Astoria, Queens).

We've got a website up. I hope you'll take a moment to visit and let me know your thoughts, hopes, etc.

http://www.singlecutbeer.com/

Drink it loud y'all! :mug:

Reno_eNVy · Mar 31, 2012

Congratulations!

Also, I hate you

fastricky · Mar 31, 2012

Don't hate me! If you knew the challenges and reality of opening a microbrewery, you might not be jealous. It certainly is not for the faint of heart.

smellycarp · Mar 31, 2012

Good luck to you. Im sure it is hard work, but hard working for yourself doing what you love beats hard working for the man every time!
Cheers

polvofiloso · Mar 31, 2012

Best of luck! If I ever get out to the right coast I'd like to visit!

turkeyjerky214 · Mar 31, 2012

Congrats and best of luck!

I really dig the name and especially the tap handles.

Airborneguy · Mar 31, 2012

Cool to see that's being opened by a member! I was looking at your site and reading a news article about you two days ago. Best of luck!

2BeerSpeer · Mar 31, 2012

turkeyjerky214 said:
congrats and best of luck!

I really dig the name and especially the tap handles.

+1

Reno_eNVy · Mar 31, 2012

fastricky said:
Don't hate me! If you knew the challenges and reality of opening a microbrewery, you might not be jealous. It certainly is not for the faint of heart.

Oh I know the perils and am still crazy jealous.

I wish you the best of luck!

strambo · Mar 31, 2012

I wish you the best of luck and wish you were closer so I could visit! Your website looks great and makes me really want a LAGRRRRR!:rockin:

boo boo · Mar 31, 2012

Congrats and best of luck in a hard market where only the best survive.

Great job on the blog also.

gavball6 · Mar 31, 2012

Cheers! As another somewhat disgruntled ad man, I will watch your success with envy. All the best.

Mongrel · Mar 31, 2012

Good luck man. If I was still in NYC, I'd be stopping in. I'll ask my friends to check out your beers.

Frankiesurf · Mar 31, 2012

Good luck with the opening. I will subscribe to your blog to see how it's going.

I live out in Suffolk on LI so when you do open. I will make it a point to get out to meet you and do some sampling.

Bring on those hops!

fastricky · Mar 31, 2012

You guys rock, cheers!!

kman6234 · Mar 31, 2012

Good luck to you. I'm sure your very excited / nervous about opening up a place of your own. NYC is a tough place to operate for a variety of reasons but fortunately there is always demand for great beer here and I'm sure you'll do very well if you stick to your plan and keep working hard. I'm going to subscribe to your blog and stop in for some beer once you open. Gotta support our fellow HBT members!

DannPM · Mar 31, 2012

OP, where do you distribute in Astoria? My bro lives there, want him to bring me back some!

fastricky · Mar 31, 2012

We'll be self-distributing. Our brewery will be at 19-33 37th St, and our Tap Room will always have growlers to go.

Palefire · Mar 31, 2012

Beautiful. Site looks great, too!

Lived in NYC for a long time, still have tons of friends there. Will have to direct them to the brewery!

Best of luck - looks like you're doing a great job so far.

fastricky · Mar 31, 2012

DoubleAught · Mar 31, 2012

The best of luck to you! What a dream to watch come true!

GodsStepBrother · Mar 31, 2012

I am in the process of going pro to, trying to locate a brew house as we speak.

BEST OF LUCK!! :tank:

jamoke · Mar 31, 2012

Wishing you all the best fermentation's and success! :mug:

fastricky · Apr 1, 2012

BTW, for everyone that's local to NYC - I've made plans with 2 excellent homebrewing organizations (Brewstoria and The NYC Homebrewers Guild) to host meetings as well as conduct classes on how to employ 'big league' production processes to a homebrewing scale.

We'll always remember our homebrewing roots!

Cromwell · Apr 1, 2012

Good luck! You're living the dream.

And YAY lagers! Good on ya.

pjj2ba · Apr 2, 2012

Looking forward to the opening!!

ps. I've got some tasting notes for you when Carolyn gets around to typing them up. Our friends enjoyed the beers!

fastricky · Apr 2, 2012

Thanks Phil!!

CrookedTail · Apr 2, 2012

Congrats! I live out on LI, so I'll make sure to come visit the tap room some time.

Are you going to be at Tap NY?

dragonbreath11 · Apr 2, 2012

Best of luck and remember when times get tough RDWHHB or in your case RDWHM(microbrew)B.

fastricky · Apr 2, 2012

Thanks Gents. We won't be at TapNY as we won't have our license yet... still there will be tastings to come so if you want you can subscribe on our site to get all the deets when the time comes.

PistolsAtDawn · Apr 2, 2012

Well congratulations, sir! I wish you the best of success. Sometime in the future I hope to be in your shoes. Nice website as well!

AdamPag · Apr 2, 2012

Gratz man! Im in Nassau, good to see the tri-state reping the brew community, im like 40 mins from astoria id love to come take a peak!

(also... I hate you too)

malevolent · Apr 2, 2012

fastricky said:
Long story short:

Years ago, knowing I deeply disliked my then career (advertising) I decided to pursue my love of American Craft Beer and homebrewing.

I became a brewer in a fairly large local microbrewery. Eventually I quit to open my own brewery.

I am now in the process of building out that microbrewery here in the NYC area (Astoria, Queens).

We've got a website up. I hope you'll take a moment to visit and let me know your thoughts, hopes, etc.

http://www.singlecutbeer.com/

Drink it loud y'all!

I'm moving out to the city this summer. Will be nice to have some microbreweries to visit!

AZOTH99 · Apr 2, 2012

Congrats to you hope you suceed.

Someday I'll open up one of my own.

fastricky · Apr 2, 2012

malevolent said:
I'm moving out to the city this summer. Will be nice to have some microbreweries to visit!

Please say 'hello' when you're in town!

fastricky · Apr 7, 2012

Thought you all might be interested in some merch we're working up...

onthekeg · Apr 7, 2012

I can sure see your marketing background coming through for you! Sell your merchandise on the website so we in other parts of the nation can buy some of them and advertise for you!

fastricky · Apr 7, 2012

We will indeed! I'll post a head's up when they're available, thanks for your support!

mjdonnelly68 · Apr 7, 2012

Congratulations and props for having the balls to put your money where your mash is.

Enjoyed the website too - well done.

Put out word when you're ready to serve and I'll bring the crew down from the Albany headquarters.

Slainte!

fastricky · Apr 7, 2012

mjdonnelly68 said:
Congratulations and props for having the balls to put your money where your mash is.

Enjoyed the website too - well done.

Put out word when you're ready to serve and I'll bring the crew down from the Albany headquarters.

Slainte!

Will do sir, thanks! :mug:

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