WORCESTER — Its Kelley Square taproom nearly complete, Wachusett Brewing Co. believes it has built one of the best spots in the city to have a pint and people watch, on the corner of the busiest intersection, in the heart of the Canal District.

After visiting the taproom last week and looking out its tall windows myself, I’m inclined to agree with Wachusett, even as a fair bit of imagination was required. The reality outside now is a mess of construction crews and surly drivers, but things will no doubt change once work on the traffic peanut is finished and Polar Park opens.

The taproom occupies about 3,000 square feet in the new Worcester Public Market, with both opening Feb. 6. Allen Fletcher, who owns the 20,000-square-foot market at 220 Harding St. and 152 Green St. and the 48 apartments above it, brought Wachusett in as the anchor business. But the brewery hasn’t let that title get to its head. It recognizes that it’s not the main attraction: The indoor market is the draw, a concept novel to Worcester that brings together a hodgepodge of vendors selling food from different cultures.

Still, brewery president Christian McMahan said Wachusett has taken its role as anchor seriously, including pushing to acquire 20 one-day liquor licenses from the city when it saw that its paperwork with the state would not go through in time for the anticipated opening.

Wachusett has designed a large communal space capable of handling the massive crowds expected not only when the market opens next week, but also when baseball begins at Polar Park next year.

The taproom — one of Wachusett’s “Brew Yards” — stays true to the brewery’s roots, incorporating rustic wood and corrugated metal as a nod to the 200-year-old Westminster farmhouse where co-founder Ned LaFortune brewed the first batch of Country Pale Ale. And like at its Westminster Brew Yard, Wachusett has made an Airstream trailer the centerpiece of the taproom; the 31-foot-trailer, built in 1974, holds a 24-tap bar surrounded by custom-built keg stools.

Wachusett didn’t want the taproom to feel too intimate, so it built a high ceiling and left a lot of standing room. There will be a few tables, but the best seats are stools placed along the back walls, where you can look out onto Kelley Square through the large windows. In the warmer months, you can even sit outside.

A firehouse door separates the taproom from the rest of the market, where the hardest decision will be what food to pair with your beer: Choose from a melting pot of options, including American, African, Japanese, Vietnamese, Jamaican, Mexican, Irish, Italian, Jewish and Nepalese. There will be a common eating and drinking space in the market that's part of the liquor license, or you can bring food into the taproom. While there is alcohol to-go, Wachusett is the only option for onsite imbibing.

Speaking of the beer, the taproom will have Wachusett’s entire lineup — from Blueberry to its Wally IPAs — plus its Fifty Trees Hard Cider and Nauti Seltzer, all brought in from Westminster.

Attached to the taproom is a two-barrel brewhouse with four-barrel fermenters, allowing Wachusett to brew about eight kegs of beer at the taproom.

The beer brewed here will be part of Wachusett’s new “Canal Series,” only available at the Worcester Brew Yard. “It could be inspired by Worcester ingredients or its history,” McMahan said. “Our brewers are lined up and ready with ideas.” The Canal Series beers will not be immediately available, as Wachusett wanted to finish the taproom for Feb. 6 before completing work on the brewhouse.

Even with its main brewery in Westminster, Wachusett has always wanted to consider itself a Worcester brewery, pointing out that its three founders all went to Worcester Polytechnic Institute and that it has had draft accounts in the city since 1994.

Now, there’s no question about that designation, though Worcester is not the only place Wachusett is building a Brew Yard. The brewery also plans to open a brewery-taproom in Cambridge this year, with a larger 15-barrel brewhouse that will brew sour beers.

McMahan told me that more Brew Yards are planned for other parts of the state, but Wachusett is taking a break for the moment to focus on Worcester and Cambridge.

Wachusett has seen how local sales of its beer have grown based on the success of its Westminster taproom and is hoping the trend holds true around Worcester and Cambridge.

“Now the best way to market yourself as a brewery is to get a pint in someone's hand and have them taste your beer and meet your people,” McMahan said. “I don’t think we had any idea how much that impacted the wider region, from all the bars, restaurants and package stores. Our growth in that region is far beyond what we thought, and really the only thing that changed is adding the Brew Yard.”

He described Wachusett’s approach to expansion — building smaller brewery-taprooms rather than investing in a second massive production facility — in terms of the board game Risk.

He assured me, though, that the brewery is not after world domination.

“You don't be in North America, then try to own Australia. You take one country at a time,” he said. “We drew a 60-mile circle around the brewery of places we could go to. Boston was in that, and Worcester was in that. It’s places where we thought we had to go and create those hot zones, so they all start connecting.”