Robert Van Winkle, a Palm Beach County resident known worldwide as rapper Vanilla Ice, says the grand opening of his Lake Worth Beach brewery is going to be epic and is “coming soon.”
In an Oct. 1 TikTok post, the 57-year-old gives a tour of construction at what he calls the future “Vanilla Ice brewery” at 1000 Lake Ave.
The brewery, which will include a museum, outdoor venue and rooftop bar, is in a nearly 100-year-old building downtown that was formerly a Masonic lodge about a block from City Hall.
In a 2022 status update, Van Winkle said he expected the brewery to be open in six months. Three years later, the Oct. 1 social media post shows an active construction site with a finished bar in the center of a large room but with little else completed.
“I’ll show you some of the ideas because it’s still rough right now,” Van Winkle says as he pans the camera around to a series of renderings set on easels near what he says will be the front door. “We’ve got a museum going in. Of course we’ve got Ninja Turtles stuff!”
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Van Winkle, who was nominated for a Grammy award for best rap solo performance for his song “Ice, Ice Baby,” has a scene in the 1991 film “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Secret of the Ooze.” Van Winkle performs his song “Ninja Rap” in the movie.
Following the height of his music career, he began renovating homes and had a nine-year run working on houses in and around Palm Beach County on the DIY Network’s “The Vanilla Ice Project.”
More recently, Van Winkle performed at President Donald Trump’s residence and private club Mar-a-Lago during a New Year’s Eve party to ring in 2024. According to online videos, a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle was on stage with Van Winkle dancing and doing karate moves.
Van Winkle said the finished Lake Worth Beach brewery will have seven beer vats and be decorated in a 1920s-style to match the era when the more than 14,000-square-foot building was constructed. Recognized in the National Register of Historic Places, the building was first known as the Gulfstream Lodge Scottish Rite Cathedral and originally housed stores and a post office. The upstairs was reserved as a Masonic lodge.
But the building was vacant for years and suffered damage from being open to the elements.
“I just wanted to show you guys that yes, we are here,” Van Winkle says in the Oct. 1 post. “The grand opening is coming as soon as we finish this bad boy. Put your dancing shoes on and go, ninja, go.”
Rapper Vanilla Ice takes the main stage to perform during Winterfest in Wellington, FL, on Friday, December 10, 2021. (Andres Leiva, Palm Beach Post)
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