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Another brewery is in the works for Scott’s Addition, the Richmond neighborhood that’s quickly establishing itself as a booze destination.

Väsen Brewing Co. is currently under construction at 3331 W. Moore St. inside the HandCraft Cleaners building at 1501 Roseneath Road, which was built by Binswanger Glass Co. in 1946.

The 80,000 square foot building takes up an entire city block off Roseneath Road between West Moore and West Leigh streets and currently houses a cleaners. Väsen is leasing 17,000 square feet of it.

The new brewery is from a quartet of friends — Joey Darragh, Tony Giordano, Jon Warner and Nathan Winters — who ended up in Richmond by chance.

“Me and Joey (Darragh) are cousins and about seven years ago we were at a family reunion,” said Giordano, who also is Väsen’s brew master. “He was about to finish grad school and I was graduating (undergrad) and we decided we wanted to leave a legacy for our children.”

Giordano got to work immediately, moving from his home in Fairfax to Colorado to work for Boulder Beer Co. and learn everything he could.