Brooklyn Brewery
Brooklyn Brewery was founded in 1988 by Steve Hindy, a former Associated Press correspondent in the Middle East, and the banker Tom Potter, who set out to bring brewing back to a borough that once counted dozens of breweries. The first Brooklyn Lager went to a bar in Williamsburg in the founding year. The brewery later opened its own Williamsburg brewhouse and tasting room under brewmaster Garrett Oliver. Kirin holds a minority stake, and Carlsberg owns the brand rights for Europe and parts of Asia. A larger home at 1 Wythe Avenue opens in 2026.
Beers by Brooklyn Brewery
25 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Brooklyn Brewery brew a broad range across 8 style families.
Across these 25 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
Brooklyn Lager
Their beers place in the Top 43% of the catalogue on average, across 21 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Brooklyn Brewery
Brooklyn Brewery was founded in 1988 by Steve Hindy, a former Associated Press correspondent in the Middle East, and the banker Tom Potter, who set out to bring brewing back to a borough that once counted dozens of breweries. The first Brooklyn Lager went to a bar in Williamsburg in the founding year. The brewery later opened its own Williamsburg brewhouse and tasting room under brewmaster Garrett Oliver. Kirin holds a minority stake, and Carlsberg owns the brand rights for Europe and parts of Asia. A larger home at 1 Wythe Avenue opens in 2026.
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