Referend Bier Blendery

They are actually a blendery. Using spontaneous fermentation with a mobile coolship. Pretty amazing stuff.

 

big fan of the stuff i tried at the blendery. cool spot too, 15-20 minutes away from troon

 

It is one of companies discussed in the thread
https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/new-mercer-county-brewery.402784/

 

Open Tasting Day / 1st Bottles Available
Saturday, April 15th, 2-8pm

• Berliner Messe: Alleluiavers bottles are available beginning at 2pm and will be sold from the driveway to the right of the main entrance. You may purchase up to 3 bottles, at $18/75cl bottle. Cash only for bottle sales, credit accepted in the tasting room for cask pours.
  These bottles are Easter brunch ready as an improvement upon the Bellini, or can be cellared for years in the name of delayed gratificatio...n.
  
• Jung: Oloroso, fermented and aged for 6 months in Oloroso Sherry casks, will be poured by gravity in the tasting room.
  
• OED is a new name for a now old beer. We are celebrating the graduation of certain barrels from the young "Jung" to the old "OED". OED will also be poured by gravity in the tasting room tomorrow.
  
• As usual, there will be a selection of 3-4 Berliner Messes on cask

Nina's Waffles of Princeton will be on hand early on to round out your palate's enjoyment!

 

i wonder if these bottles will last til next saturday.

 

They will have bottles for onsite consumption in the coming weeks. So perhaps thats the game plan for what's left over, if any

 

Sold out around 3pm

 

Wow. One hour? Damn a few months ago this brewery didn't even exist.

 

Not sure what to total amount for sale was, but there were about 30-40 people in front of me in line and when I got to the front there wasn't much left on the pallet they were getting boxes from.

Eventually everyone was in line for pours and I saw a few people go back for seconds of bottles. Seems like the brewery didn't have a problem with it. There was a good 15-20mins where there was no line.

 

Sad I missed this with the Kane release today.

Nice to see their first bottle release be a success though.

 

Lucky enough to get here shortly after open after leaving Kane earlier. 20 mins or so after 2 there was no line at all for bottles, despite a large line for pours. Never seen the place so busy before. Congrats

 

Not just that it sold out in one hour when it didn't even exist... but these aren't styles that the average beer drinker typically go after, so THAT alone makes me happy.

 

hoping to go this weekend.

Just curious do they fill growlers or do anything to go? or is this strictly onsite pours?

 

Strictly onsite, I think. At least it was when I went 2 months ago. I couldn't even begin to guess how much a growler fill would be here, based upon their 6oz pour prices.

 

Best bet would be to follow social media; they may fill (pre-fill) a very limited number of growlers. Hence, be there early:



"Look for them again in April or May, but then much more regularly."

 

Collaboration sounds killer, so will the anticipation:

"What sets this apart (physically as well as philosophically) from every other wort we've brewed, is that we've welcomed these esteemed brewers' mixed cultures into the blendery. This barrel stack, comprised of Pinot Noir and Syrah barrels from Alba in Milford, NJ, contains one barrel per brewery of pitched mixed cultures on the bottom row. These are cultures that have been lovingly cared for, propagated, selected for the attributes each brewer prizes in a beer of mixed fermentation. The three barrels at the top of the pyramid are none of those things — they are purely spontaneous as usual."

http://www.thereferend.com/discussion-archive/2017/4/26/a-little-time-in-its-pure-state​

 

i was lucky enough to get 1 of the 12 growlers. the fill - while being "still" - was great.

21 bucks is kinda steep for 75cl. I would definitely not mind paying a little less (and for gloria, love that beer).

 

how were the prices?