Downtown St. Paul is on tap to get another brewery.

Three guys who grew up in the same Shoreview neighborhood (and who all happen to wear glasses) will open 12welve Eyes Brewing in the Pioneer Endicott building on Robert and Fourth streets sometime this summer.

Elliot Grosse, Karl Eicher and Dalton Buchta were just barely of drinking age when they began homebrewing about 3½ years ago.

“We kind of viewed our homebrewing operation like being in a jam band,” Grosse said. “We named ourselves 12welve Eyes, and the concept for the brewery organically grew over time.”

The brewery, on the garden level of the historic building, will have an entrance from Fourth Street to a 2,400-square-foot taproom space. A central bar will anchor the room, with seating surrounding it. Plenty of windows keep the space, which is still under construction, from feeling dark.

The alley next to the building is private, and the trio plans to use that space to park food trucks, and possibly eventually to house a patio.

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Brewing will take place in the building’s former boiler room, which is down the hall from the brewery. The space is a bit different from the typical brewery layout, but Grosse, a resident of the building, said he and his friends were committed to making it work, even if it meant spreading the operation into three spaces. (A third room will house a cooler for their kegs.)

The brewers promise a wide variety of beer, from English to American to Belgian styles. They said there will be a matrix of styles available at all times, but that specific beers will rotate frequently.

“We want to be that brewery where every time you come in there are one or two beers on tap that you haven’t had yet,” Grosse said.

The partners, who are all firmly in their mid-20s, said their brewing equipment should arrive sometime in March, which would easily facilitate a summer opening.