{"id":2066285,"date":"2025-10-03T09:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T09:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2066285"},"modified":"2025-10-03T09:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T09:21:08","slug":"rapper-and-home-renovation-guru-vanilla-ice-gives-update-on-brewery-in-lake-worth-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/rapper-and-home-renovation-guru-vanilla-ice-gives-update-on-brewery-in-lake-worth-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapper and home renovation guru Vanilla Ice gives update on brewery in Lake Worth Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Robert Van Winkle, a Palm Beach County resident known worldwide as rapper Vanilla Ice<\/a>, says the grand opening of his Lake Worth Beach<\/a> brewery is going to be epic and is \u201ccoming soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an Oct. 1 TikTok post, the 57-year-old<\/a> gives a tour of construction at what he calls the future \u201cVanilla Ice brewery\u201d at 1000 Lake Ave.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll show you some of the ideas because it\u2019s still rough right now,\u201d 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. \u201cWe\u2019ve got a museum going in. Of course we\u2019ve got Ninja Turtles stuff!\u201d<\/p>\n

More: <\/strong>Vanilla Ice, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle rock out at Trump New Year\u2019s Eve party at Mar-a-Lago<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Van Winkle, who was nominated for a Grammy award for best rap solo performance for his song \u201cIce, Ice Baby,\u201d has a scene in the 1991 film \u201cTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Secret of the Ooze.\u201d Van Winkle performs his song \u201cNinja Rap\u201d in the movie.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s \u201cThe Vanilla Ice Project.\u201d<\/p>\n

More recently, Van Winkle performed<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

But the building was vacant for years and suffered damage from being open to the elements.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just wanted to show you guys that yes, we are here,\u201d Van Winkle says in the Oct. 1 post. \u201cThe grand opening is coming as soon as we finish this bad boy. Put your dancing shoes on and go, ninja, go.\u201d<\/p>\n

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