Grimm Artisanal Ales
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We are currently only open for to-go sales. Su-Th: 12-8pm, F & Sa: 12-10pm.
Or, if you're in our delivery radius, find us on GrubHub & Caviar!
Or! If you live in NYS, visit our beer retail site. Due to Covid-19, we are able to ship beer to all of New York State!
THE BREWERY…
Grimm Artisanal Ales is a Brooklyn-based brewery founded in 2013 by Joe and Lauren Grimm after nearly a decade of tinkering with fermentation. Grimm specializes in concise, elegant ales epitomizing the creative, experimental spirit of the American artisanal beer revolution. With each limited edition release, we seek to push the boundaries of style and flavor in order to create beers with the utmost depth and complexity.
For five years, Grimm operated as a nomadic brewery. Joe and Lauren would develop each recipe in the kitchen of their Gowanus apartment and travel to existing breweries near and far to craft their commercial beers.
In June 2018, they opened their permanent location in the East Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY.
THE PREHISTORY OF GRIMM…
Joe and Lauren have been experimenting with the near-magical transformative qualities of yeast since 2005 when they met as students and artists in Providence, Rhode Island. Initial experiments in their apartment kitchen with mead, hard cider, kombucha, kvass, and ginger beer soon gave way to a fascination with Belgian-style ales.
While performing music in Belgium, Lauren and Joe became transfixed by the complexity of Belgian ales. Soon after arriving back in the states, the two began tasting beers methodically in order to teach themselves about the subtle and distinctive qualities of malt, hops, and yeast that created the aromas and flavors of their favorite beers. Alongside their art and music practices, they eagerly researched techniques for beer-making and started brewing five-gallon batches in their apartment to drink and give to their friends.
As more and more people began to share their excitement for the homebrews that they had been making, the two began brewing beer on the sly for gallery events and music performances in Chicago, where they were in school studying sculpture and sound art at the time. Alongside these pop-up bars, the Grimms operated a homebrew CSA to distribute beer to their friends. They had so much success that they began thinking about bringing their beer to a larger community. Once back at home on the East Coast, Joe and Lauren founded Grimm Artisanal Ales as a nomadic brewery in 2013.
FAQs
Due to Covid-19, we can ship beer throughout NYS! You can order by following the link to our Shopify page on our homepage. We are not able to legally ship beer anywhere else in the US at this time.
Grimm beer is regularly available in the following states: New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, California, Florida, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania (southeastern PA). Our beer is occasionally available in Missouri, Michigan, Ohio, Louisiana, Indiana, Maryland, Georgia, Maine, Illinois (Chicago specifically), Rhode Island, and Vermont.
If you’re in the northeast, we recommend using BeerMenus (www.BeerMenus.com) to locate our beer.
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We do not have a parking lot. There is minimal street parking around our brewery on Catherine St, Morgan Ave, and Metropolitan Ave. Please keep in mind that the area directly in front of the brewery is a loading zone (7am-7pm). Tickets and towing are enforced.
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- It must be CLEAN.
- Dark glass growlers only.
- If you are bringing screw-top style growlers, bring your own cap.
Each beer style varies, but we recommend that unopened and refrigerated, you drink it within a week or two.
We prime all of our growlers with CO2 to purge them of oxygen. When a growler is opened and beer is poured, air replaces the beer inside the growler and the remaining beer in the growler oxidizes quickly. Once opened, the beer will last about 2 to 3 days at most. Our draft beers are best served fresh, so enjoying them as soon as possible is always your best bet!
Your growler should always be kept cold to ensure highest quality, and if you are traveling, bring a cooler and some ice for best results.
We accept all major credit cards.
If our beer includes ingredients that aren’t considered to be vegan, your will see the ingredients listed on the can or bottle. Non-vegan ingredients include: honey, milk sugar.
Beer is considered “kosher by default” unless there are unusual flavorings added. Any unusual flavorings in our beer will always be clearly labeled, so if there is something that is a cause for concern, you’ll know.
Grimm is our last name! Joe and Lauren Grimm founded Grimm Artisanal Ales in 2013. Simply put, Grimm is a rad name. That being said, we think that by making our last name into our brewery name, we have to stand behind everything that we put into the world. All of our beers must be up to our standards of quality.
Please contact your your distributor. Tap handles may not always be available, but they will do their best.
Unfortunately we don’t have the bandwidth to fulfill these requests at this time.