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The Bronx Brewery: Our borough, your beer

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    Chris Gallant tells us how beer is helping to improve the economic development in the Bronx

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Yes sunset right now is -- aligned with microbrewery hearing New York called.

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Bronx tale -- is the only fear that you are brewing right now.

Nelson this is a reflection here this is the in the Bronx -- oil that's enough about a year and a half from just gonna release -- -- -- in April so hit New York in these.

These -- and April.

So a month from now and -- turnout and -- is right by anywhere rate -- -- on undrafted restaurants and then the parents.

Its restaurants -- mean -- everything from small craft beer bars like chimneys 43 to it's nice restaurants likely given sons to Madison Square Garden so.

All over the place craft -- -- -- and right now yes.

It's becoming very crowded market place would you say it is very there's more -- is now than there ever happen in the us.

And many craft breweries are being gobbled up by some of the bigger friends yes there.

That's good in your opinion all right -- dilute the whole idea -- being -- burn up.

I'm sure it's good -- and they have a great capital infusion that happens but I think.

You know it's it really depends on what -- needs today and where they wanna be to they wanna stay small and they wanna produce -- clear they -- revenue and they they wanna get -- -- -- -- international and and and what their findings that.

And you're both she started in 2011 yes and how have you grown -- that time.

Expense and -- great.

We've made thirteen hundred barrels last year so we're still pretty small very barrels to kegs and and yeah yeah.

And this year we're we're we're shooting for about three to four times -- -- -- growing pretty well.

And were whereabouts -- -- places right now around the city and we're extending -- -- to Albany in March.

Who -- your keys.

Democrat.

While everyone drinks here.

-- -- So yeah I think I think the Democrats and -- really changing you know used to just -- you know men and their twenties and their reasons really growing a lot more people are thinking here now so right now -- demographics anybody that really wants to create here.

Then -- different -- beer drinker but there are some options now -- and I can I can -- there on the you know there's a little money York right now and it this weekend it wraps up beer week.

Right near to be very weak and paying your participating we are yeah.

And just can you -- -- about it -- so severe it is the fifth annual beer week.

And it's ten days long and it's bars and restaurants all -- the city -- craft Beers so it's celebrating local breweries there's there's ten local breweries that are.

Really set it up and it's also deciding craft beer from all around the world so bruised from.

-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- No doubt craft breweries have had a huge impact on New York.

-- -- near economy particularly in some parts here where we really needed can you define none at all.

I think it preference.

-- great waved small businesses bring jobs back to that right.

Right sitting bring manufacturing back to this yet and you know that we can -- the full screen showing everybody.

-- fear has.

Really impact it.

Our city and state accounted for nearly 3000 direct jobs and 100000.

Indirect jobs for New York's economy.

In the past decade as you can see craft breweries have doubled in size contributing 200 million dollars in sales.

On the -- -- contributed to that particularly we have.

Right now -- very small sliver of it but I guess we are contributing to that house so -- -- opening of the new brewery right now on the South Bronx import more ideal up dip so.

Well moving roe hello there yes yes so its nearest -- a bigger space -- -- -- that's -- weird to -- about 5% people locally and how many.

Right now we have three and a half.

-- the -- the haphazard designer and we can't they afford painful time.

OK alright well thank you so much Bronx tale Elvis is what it's gonna look like an dishes and this is what you -- and the canyons are right well I'm excited to try it when that is an option -- wants the general manager manager and co-founder of the Bronx.

Brewery.

Thank you very much for coming -- a picture what -- on screen and guess it's 4 o'clock -- and everybody had an awesome weekend.