QUEENS — It’s the "Boulevard of Beer.”
One of the borough’s major thoroughfares will now have a brew named after it.
Queens Brewery is launching "Queens BLVD," an American Session IPA with 4.5 percent alcohol, made with Mosaic, Topaz and Mandarina Bavaria hops.
The beer will soon be available in all five boroughs and parts of Long Island, the brewery said.
But it will first debut this Saturday at craft beer festival Brooklyn Pour as well as at Ridgewood outdoor bar Nowadays, located only five blocks away from the brewery’s first brick-and-mortar shop at 1539 Covert St., which is still under construction.
Currently, Queens Brewery makes its beer in Saratoga Springs, using the space at Olde Saratoga Brewing Company.
The brewery is planning to move its operations to the Ridgewood location in early spring 2016.
The new beer’s tag line will be "10 Lanes of Hops," the brewery said.
Nelson Rockefeller, founder of Queens Brewery, said in an email that the new brew will contain “lots of Mosaic (for our flower-hugging music-loving redneck hipster PNW friends), Topaz (AUS) for ruggers, and Mandarina Bavaria for anyone who has ever had a German beer...ever.”
Its name, Rockefeller noted, honors Queens Boulevard as “a centrifuge for bars, businesses and cultural happenings throughout the borough for the last 100+ years.”
The thoroughfare that connects Queens to Manhattan has been nicknamed the "Boulevard of Death," because more than 70 pedestrians were killed in accidents there from 1993 to 2001. Despite numerous safety improvements, installed along the street over the years, the boulevard is still considered dangerous. But currently, portions of the thoroughfare are being redesigned in a push to turn it into the "Boulevard of Life."
