The twin settles in: Famous ‘gypsy’ brewer Evil Twin opens Ridgewood brewery
Evil Twin Brewery, one of the most successfully itinerant “gypsy” breweries in the world, is finally putting down roots in the Queens neighborhood of Ridgewood.
Brookyn resident Jeppe Jarnit Bergso is the 43-year-old former Danish schoolteacher who started his virtual brewery in 2010, contracting with breweries in Connecticut, South Carolina and Massachusetts to produce his quirky, inventive concoctions with some of the most perverse and scatological names in the craft brewing world.
A gypsy brewer is a licensed brewer who contracts with a brewery it does not own to produce a beer, but Bergso is content to shed the gypsy title as Evil Twin becomes a household name with its own street address.