Watertown – Something different is preparing for the North Country terrain had occupied for almost four years.
Instead of serving the coffee there, a BREW ad has been offered to open the ground floor of an apartment building at 497 Newell St.
Jeffrey Walsh, who is new in the region, rents the old specialized cafe and hopes to open Brewhaus half-pints this spring, joining two brasseries / restaurants nearby, 1812 on the river and Garland City Beer Works.
Walsh plans to make its variations of 80 styles of beer and wines in the “restaurant on the international theme”.
“I have always been doing beer,” he said.
The taps would be designated to offer specific countries beer to present beers from the United States, Germany, Belgium and elsewhere.
Producing 20 gallons of beer in four reservoirs of 5 gallons twice a day, it will be able to offer different beers daily by slightly changing the beer manufacturing process, he said.
He started his experience in the manufacture of beer with a kit of beer at home over 20 years ago and he became passionate about making all kinds of beer.
“It is an art and a science mixed together,” he said.
The space will not need improvements inside or outside, he said. It is simply a question of installing your beer manufacturing equipment.
Serving on small plates and small portions, the Brew Pub will offer seven-course meal packages that will combine soups, salads, sandwiches, appetizers, entries, meats and deserts. Each month will include another country.
The Brew Pub will have billiards, a shuffle board, darts, ping-pong and air hockey matches, with tournaments, said Walsh.
He plans to employ staff of four full -time employees, as well as him and his wife, Camille. The opening hours will take place from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesday to Thursday, from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. Friday, from noon to 11 p.m. Saturday and from noon to 10 p.m. on Sunday.
Walsh, who is from Springfield, Massachusetts, worked as an accountant for a ratchet company before obtaining the beer bug. He has links with the North Country, still having a property by the water in Lake Pleasant that his father bought decades ago. He also graduated in 1994 from Utica College.
Walsh presented its Brew Pub plans to the city’s planning committee on Tuesday evening. He received a special permit that authorizes BREW advertising in the neighborhood.
The members of the planning committee expressed their enthusiasm about the opening of the Brew Pub.
The city’s master plan has recommended an entertainment district by the water in this region, and the Brew pub “relies on this momentum,” said main urgumer Geoffrey T. Urda on Wednesday.
“The Brew Pub is advancing perfectly,” he said.
During a public audience for the company on Tuesday evening, however, the resident of Howk Street, Kristina Mr. Wheeler, expressed her concerns about the addition of another place in a neighborhood that already has congestioned parking problems.
She said vehicles often block her family driveway on busy weekend nights.
The planning commission has recognized the parking problems of the neighborhood, but stressed that this is a city problem and that the BREW advert should not be blamed.
The owner of the building, Jake Johnson, stressed the importance of obtaining the Brew pub in the building, noting that Walsh is the only tenant who manifested himself for the space since the coffee has moved last year.
And the member of the planning commission, Lynn Godek, said that the new company should be welcomed in the neighborhood. The city must solve the parking problem.
The Commission recommends that the municipal council prohibits parking on one side of rue Howk.