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By Colin Mixson What could possibly go wrong?
A popular Carroll Gardens
brew house will host a festival
that pairs professional wrestling
with highly potent pours of beer! The
“Pastrytown” fest at Industry City on
March 16 will feature pastry stouts and
fruited Berliners flavored with unlikely
“adjunct” ingredients, at an event that
promises to be simply magical, according
to an organizer.
“Basically it’s an adjunct fantasy
land,” said Matt Monahan, co-owner of
Other Half Brewery.
The bonanza of unusual brews will
showcase 35 top-notch brewers from
across the country, each pouring beers
flavored with adjuncts — a term referring
to anything added to beer aside from
the main ingredients of hops, yeast, malt,
and water — including bananas, vanilla,
almonds, pretzels, sea salt, coconut, macadamia
nuts, cinnamon, and lots of other
zany additions that sound more at home
in a dessert dish than a stout beer.
Other Half plans to pour Cookie
Kooks, an imperial stout brewed in collaboration
with Swedish beer-maker
Omnipollo, which will also be at the
festival with its medley of sugary, breakfast
inspired brews. Cookie Kooks boasts
an intoxicating 15.4-percent alcohol by
volume, which is three times more potent
than a Budweiser, but is typical of the
type of beers that ticket holders can
expect at Pastrytown.
That big buzz is the big reason that
Monahan and his crew worked hard to
ensure there will be plenty of food options
— including Ample Hills Creamery,
Bien Cuit, Coolhaus, Four and Twenty
Blackbirds, Milk Bar, and Supermoon
Bakehouse — to help fortify stomachs
against the effects of too much sugarladen
alcohol.
“Because of the high ABV, we want
to make sure people aren’t completely
annihilated,” Monahan said. “There’s a
lot of food and a lot of water available at
this thing.”
And because Other Half just happens
to employ several professional wrestlers,
the warriors of the New York Wrestling
Connection will be on hand to duke it
out in a series of catastrophic, bloodsoaked
free-for-alls for the amusement of
Pastrytown revelers.
“It’s so much fun,” said Monahan. “At
some point there’s 10 or 15 of these guys
in the ring at the same time, they have all
sorts of props out, they’re high flying —
it’s bust.”
Drink dessert and watch pro wrestling
at Industry City 220 36th St. Suite
2A, between Second and Third Avenue in
Sunset Park, pastrytown.otherhalfbrewing.
com. March 16; noon–4 pm. $100.
Sweet!: Other Half Brewing owners
Andrew Burman and Matt Monahan
show off one of their new dessertinspired
beers. Photo by Trey Pentecost
Sweet and stout
Dessert beer fest coming to Industry City
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