Area Two Experimental Brewing

Hot dogs had and what bi’ness needing to be done now done, we have a few hours to kill before meeting up with the boro kids up north, so yes, beer. A quick jump down 95 over the river and everything’ll be fine. Already 45 minutes late for our Covid life reservation table booked, we show up anyway and find the place lightly populated early afternoon Sunday. Area 2, didn’t make the mistake of parking at Two Roads proper and having to walk the 3 miles over (again)…

A modern shiny new standalone; large and airy with a hanger-like arched ceiling. in and up and across the gangplank (gar) looking below to both sides over the brewery; tanks and in the brewery seating fore and barrels, barrels, barrels, & a few foudres too, aft.

And out to the rear room bar. Awesome crescent shaped laminated topped straight panel bar, horizontal wood base, and a crescent foot rail. Seating for none during Covid life, maybe it’s like that all the time, who knows. There’s a triple 8-piping tower set up with polished wood non-descript handles on the barback counter, plus a demon slushy machine on one end, and I spy a crowler crimper, too. Glassware shelved below ‘cause that’s where you keep it. The wall above is done horizontal gray plank below a mostly greenness wall with a logo piece on center (Witz says there were previously menu boards to both sides). Bottle & can coolers on the ends of the ends. Spots on the barback, drop single filament bulbs over the bar.

Sharp herringbone wood slat floors, and a dark corrugated ceiling with ductwork, drop single filament bulbs, horn lamps, & strung small baby bulbs to the rear. A wall of windows forward over the brewery with a bar counter ledge & seating running their length, and a wall of window/doors to the rear deck with some beige painted pieces in between’ a 2016 GABF gold medal for Hexotic framed there, as it damned well ought to be, and some large glow lit pieces back there (me, pointing).

Swag & beer to-go at the other end of the room. 2 seat hightop block tables and 2 seat barrel tables, plus larger 6 seat block hightops with stool seating; a dozen set ups between them all. Back deck with barrel tables and stave recliners over some wooded space below, and up up up the backside to the roof top; 8 seating set ups, barrels, strung lighting, and views of seating below in the brewery. Love amongst the barrels.

So, the list is on paper. 30 beer, seltzer, & kombucha offerings including a few canned & bottled seelctions, broken into categories; ‘Wood & Time’, ‘Unique Fermentations’, ‘Big & Barreled’, ‘Hard Kombucha’, ‘Hard Seltzer’, ‘Beer, Biere, & (More) Bier’, and ‘IPA, Hazy Juicy & Hemp’. And then a ‘beer slushy of the week’ which we will never speak of again. The list shows item, description, ABV, serving size, & cost. Everything’s $6 to $8, drafts are pretty much in .25L & .4L pours.

Drank a buncha shorty sour things (Pear Lambic, 7%; Hexotic, 6 tropical fruit Lambic, 8%; Gueuze 2020, 7%; Second life, American wild sour ale with black raspberry & cherry, 5.5%; Synopsis Guava, quad fermented wild sour ale, 6.4%). Pear Lambic & Hexotic (duh) for the Wins. And then wound down with the Holiday Ale, biere de noel, 7.3%, which takes me back to a time and place that was a decade ago on the east end of Long Island. I just love this goddamn beer.

Good sour stuff and a whole lot of everything else, is it any wonder coming from Phil? Very cool house, I would like to take this in again in the warm weather.

 

 

Brand new, large, futuristic, modern, industrial, lots of clean metal and glass.....lots of large metal tanks, large wooden barrels.....,pleasant tasting/sampling/drinking/buying beer area, real nice and comfortable out door space.

Lots of different options on tap, in bottles and cans to stay or go. Friendly and informative folks behind the sticks

Cool spot, where they are brewing up a mess of interesting things. Well worth a visit....very easy on and off route 95

 

The new addition to Two Roads Brewing, Area 2 is an ultra modern looking facility. The entry floor has a huge barrel room just past the elevators with at least 4 foeders and a few hundred barrels aging. 2nd floor walkway overlooks barrel area and leads to a taproom with a dozen tables and a 15 foot long service bar. Additionally there are 2 outdoor patios one on the second floor to the left of the bar, and a roof top patio one flight up. A dozen beers on tap, plus bottles to go, all sours and barrel aged choices... very interesting selection.

Place is really nice. Will be great in nice weather, plenty of outdoor space. Beers were incredible and they are just getting started. I expect big things to come out of here. The Blood Peach Lambic was amazing. good stuff!