This week we took a break from tasting beer to get you the scoop behind the new bar that have a huge impact on Bushwick’s beer scene this summer.  Two years ago Josh Richholt and Shay Vishawadi bought large chunks of a massive brick building on Meserole Street, built in 1875 as one of the original breweries in the Brewer’s Row of local fame.  This June it will finally open as The Well, the beer-centric half of a project whose musical alter-ego The Wick should officially open later this summer as well.  Both spaces have been open for one-off events in the past, which the duo used as a sort of tester for the hard opening of the venues.  The space also houses a small gallery in its open “safe space” called The Exit Room. We caught lots of rad events at The Well, including seeing legendary garage bands Thee Oh Sees & Ty Segall playing in the rain, a screening of LCD Soundsystem’s Shut Up and Play The Hits, as well as the Lobstah Fest!

The taproom of the old brewery, now boarded.