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A Local Brewery Takes Their Beer To Bethel Woods

How Ridgewood's small but persistent Bridge and Tunnel won a craft beer contest

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A Local Brewery Takes Their Beer To Bethel Woods

How Ridgewood's small but persistent Bridge and Tunnel won a craft beer contest

A Local Brewery Takes Their Beer To Bethel Woods

The judges announced the winners of Tap New York, a craft beer festival in Bethel Woods, New York, with lightning speed. As the beer categories flew by, Rich Castagna and his wife anxiously awaited the results. This competition wasn’t their first rodeo. As the owner and operator of the small but persistent Bridge and Tunnel Brewery, he’s thrown his beers in the ring at multiple competitions before, always coming back with runner-up trophies and still longing for a first-place finish. This year, however, felt different. 

Rich Castagna, a Wyckoff Hospital-born and Maspeth-raised New Yorker, has been busy brewing beer for well over twenty years. His story embodies the kind of grit and perseverance so long…

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