Brewbot, a microbrewery that will soon pour freshly brewed beer, is a new feather in Andheri’s culinary hat. It has replaced Passenger, a gaudy resto-pub, which was operational for over a year. I couldn’t wait to try the food and popped in unannounced with my companion on a Sunday evening.

The Goat Cheese Lollipops (Rs 445)

Brewbot sports a distressed but dapper look, with grey walls alongside unpainted brick walls, and the gigantic brewery equipment called vats. Once we settled in our seats indoors on the ground floor — it has an outdoor seating, too — Julie Bagett, the master brewer from the US, came up to meet us. She had just returned from a visit to the breweries in Delhi and Bangalore and told us that she was eager to pour the malted barley into the larger-than-life sized containers, turn them into fermented sugar and eventually alcohol, once the microbrewery got its licence.