Walk a makgeolli brewery floor, then taste
A working Greenpoint brewery opens its floor for one Thursday hour, tracing how Korean rice wine is made before you taste it. One seating, one ticket, pours moving from cloudy and light to deep and aged.
🗓️ The tour at a glance
🍶 What the hour holds
Hana Makgeolli brews Korean rice wine in a working Greenpoint facility, and this Thursday it opens that floor to visitors. The team walks you past the fermentation tanks, explains how sool is made, then sits you down to taste what they pour. It runs once this week, on Thursday evening, and the whole visit fits inside a single hour. One seating, one ticket, a close look at a craft most people only ever drink.
👀 What you actually do
The guides lead you through the production space, pointing out how rice, water, and cultures turn into sool over weeks of fermenting. They brew this themselves, and questions get real answers as you walk. Then the tasting begins. Pours move from lighter, cloudy makgeolli toward deeper, aged styles that barely taste like the same grain. The names blur fast. A quick note on your phone saves the one you actually want to buy later.
🎟️ Before you go
The tour starts at five at 201 Dupont Street, a short walk from the Greenpoint Avenue G stop. Come a few minutes early to check in, and carry a valid ID for the age check every tasting requires at the door. Closed shoes handle the production floor. Curious drinkers and solo travelers who like learning by hand will get the most from it. If you do not drink, though, the whole hour is the tasting, and another tour will suit you better.
