Brooklyn Seltzer Boys

Brooklyn Seltzer Boys, NYC’s Last Standing Seltzer Factory, Is Bubbling Up Again | Eater NY

"Said to be the last seltzer factory in the city, I learned that Brooklyn Seltzer Boys moved from Canarsie to Cypress Hills during the pandemic and is led by Alex Gomberg, a new-wave seltzer purveyor who had been operating out of his family’s decades-old Gomberg Seltzer Works factory since 2013. The business sells cases of ten 26-ounce glass bottles (allegedly hand-blown in Czechoslovakia and Austria in the 1800s), delivers to roughly 500 customers and to bars and restaurants such as Dutch Kills, Juliana’s Pizza, and St. Anselm, and pivoted from a roughly fifty-fifty restaurant/home mix pre-pandemic to almost exclusively home deliveries during the pandemic. Rising costs have pushed prices up — Gomberg estimates a case ran about $35 a decade ago and now hovers around $50, with a recent 50-cent-per-case increase (effective Monday, September 5) and further variation depending on difficult parking or stairs. Select private tours of the new Cypress Hills facility have begun, with plans to ramp up advertising and visits by next March." - Emma Orlow