Yale Terrace Brewery - Cranford, NJ

This is good news, Union County is short on breweries. I'll try to get there the first week they open.

 

Planning to check this place out tonight!

 

Very close to where I work. I'm looking forward to a visit!

 

So unfortunately my experience was pretty bad. Had a flight of their brown, ipa, oatmeal stout, and cream ale. The first red flag was when the bartender told me that the brown is a little more sour than normal Browns. The beer tasted like it was infected in a bad way. Same thing goes for the ipa and the cream ale. The ipa tasted like watered down fruit juice and bandaids. The only non infected beer was the stout but it still had a watered down taste to it. I’m sad to say I was really disappointed. I’m willing to give them a chance to fix their issues but I probably won’t be back for several months. I hope those that go in the future have better reviews to post.

 

Huh? Kinda strange naming concept given the first statement.

 

Had it been a quieter evening for them I might have said something but it was pretty busy.

 

Sounds to me like they aren't willing to dump beer. If you aren't willing to dump bad beer you should not try to open a brewery. Brewing beer to sell to strangers is not the same as home brewing for yourself and friends.

 

Visited on Saturday

Main IPA was good. I enjoyed the low carbonation and the cold (not frozen) serving temperature. It almost tasted like cask conditioned at JJ BIttings.

Stout was over and under carbonated at the same time. I needs work.

Brown Ale was vile. My pint was exchanged for the IPA.

 

This BA will not be going there anytime soon.

 

my guess is that they tried to force out beer as quick as possible on a system they are probably very unfamiliar with, in an attempt to have beer to serve before the holidays. Unfortunately this NEVER works out well. As a new brewery - and new-to-professional brewers who are most likely trying to scale their home brew recipes - there will always be growing pains with plenty of dumped beer.

I can understand WHY they would want to start serving now - but, they're just setting themselves up for disaster. I wouldn't totally write them off though, but i would give them a few months to get their brewery legs under them and familiarized with brewing on a professional system.

 

Don't know what you guys are talking about. This is the greatest place ever
http://sharonsteelerealestate.com/cranfords-yale-terrace-brewery-25-years-in-the-making/

 

Sounds like a stellar start, when do they start canning? Next month?

 

I'm already in line.