South Jersey Breweries

A $13 4 pack is cheap up here (northern NJ/NY)!

 

Any reports on how this is selling?
Hoping to stop by tomorrow and grab some.

 

I saw someone on Instragram or Facebook saying there is plenty left. Not sure how much is "plenty" but I'll take their word for it.

 

Tonewood and hopefully others will follow suit soon. Fresh delicious local beer with no trade value is a beautiful thing. I'm sick of the THands BS lines and obnoxious people, it's the opposite of what beer should be.

 

I don't know how much is/was left, but for the 1/2 hour we were there on Saturday afternoon, there was a steady stream of people coming in and picking up 6 packs. After Tonewood, we took the long way to Ocean City via:
Lunacy---wasn't overly impressed
Eight & Sand---liked a lot
7 Mile---decent
Slack Tide---pretty good.

 

They sold out of Fuego cans before I got there around 6 on Saturday.

 

Not surprising, we were there a little after 1 and in the time it took to drink a Chief there must have been 12-15 people come in and grab a couple 6 packs at a time.

 

Have been to three 3's in Hammonton a few times. They are making some pretty tasty IPAs. Pulpatations is our favorite

 

One place I haven't been that I've really wanted to go to. How are their other beers (read non hoppy)?

 

They are okay. Their Girls Night Stout seems to be their base stout.
Their saisons are pretty good. But the taplist always has about 5 or 6 IPA's on it. Makes sense because the owner/head brewer is obsessed with Vermont style IPA's himself. I think right now they had something like 12 beers on tap and 9 of them being IPA's/APA's.

 

I agree. Their non-IPAs are meh, and I love stouts. We go there or Glasstown for good IPAs. Although Glasstown has good stouts also

 

Kelly Green Brewing:

"Today we joined forces with our friends from Tuckahoe Brewing Co., The Referend Bier Blendery and Troon Brewing to brew a barrel fermented, turbid mashed, saison brewed entirely with NJ sourced ingredients with malt and hops from Rabbit Hill Farms, including Hay! After some time spent in The Referend Bier Blendery's coolship, each participating brewery will and their house mixed culture to a barrel, 100% Spontaneously fermented in The Referend's case. After about one year we will reconvene to sample, blend and package bottles. Its going to be a long wait, but it'll be more than worth it.

Thanks so much to Amanda & Sean for being such welcoming hosts."​

 

On the way to Ocean city on Saturday, we stopped at Double Nickel, Berlin and Atco.

Double Nickel has a huge space and some of their barrel aged beers very good. I've always enjoyed their Vienna Lager, great summer beer, grabbed a 6er to enjoy on the beach. Only downside is that their driveway is literally on an exit ramp off of 73 east. If you want to continue on 73, you have to go on a 5 minute loop to get back onto 73.

Berlin was ok, nothing special. Their house made root beer was fantastic. If they made it a hard root beer they would have a hit.

Atco was the surprise of the trip. Wasn't expecting much just based on not hearing anything about them. 7 beers on tap, all were good. The citra IPA was really good, I regret not getting a growler of it.

Also heard talk that 2 new breweries are close to opening in Williamstown. Sounds like we'll have targets for our next trip to the shore.

 

Looks like Eight & Sand are releasing their first bottles in a few weeks, a BA barleywine.

 

Had never heard of Tonewood until last week at roger wilco for first time. LOVED the poolside lager

 

Looks like Tonewood has fresh cans of Fuego.

 

I love Tonewood but I was a bit disappointed by this one, personally. It didn't have that crisp/dry edge I expect from a "Mexican lager". Tasted a bit more like a kellerbier, which would have been fine just not what I was expecting. It wasn't awful by any means just not up to par with their other beers (in my opinion of course)

 

I was pleasantly surprised by poolside. One of the better pilsners brewed in state

 

Received word from a trusted source today that a new brewery may open in the nearish future on Kings Highway in what I guess is either Haddon Heights, Audubon, or Mount Ephraim. Location is where the Sherwin Williams is, I guess. Not sure if this is written in stone yet, but I know somebody (I don't know who) is pushing for the property.