What's Happening in NJ? Releases, News, Gatherings

[MikeJones]

Not sure if everyone has seen the post or not but we finally have a worthy GoFundMe to contribute to.

http://www.talkbeer.com/community/threads/secret-santa-2016-charity-raffle-for-a-tber.36611/

I don't really have the cellar to put together my own box but if any of you guys want to tag team something I'm willing to donate and coordinate to make sure it gets to Secret Santa.

 

[seedavid]

I'm making the trek out to Troon and The Referend this weekend (and also to The Bent Spoon, because that **** is delicious, I don't care if its December). Some questions for those that have been.

Whats the setup at Troon? Like, from what I can deduce, I can get full pours at the Brick Farm Tavern, and growler fills after I take a tour. Is there any point at which I can just have a taster/small pour to see if I want a fill? Also, is the Brick Farm Tavern worth the money? I figure I'm going all the way out there, and the menu looks pretty good, so I was thinking about trying to get a lunch reservation.

Does The Referend fill growlers of any sort?

And if anybody has had Shamanic Revelation from Conclave, please feel free to describe how good it is so that I can try to convince my gf to add that to our itinerary.

 

[Os]

I'm making the trek out to Troon and The Referend this weekend (and also to The Bent Spoon, because that **** is delicious, I don't care if its December). Some questions for those that have been.

Whats the setup at Troon? Like, from what I can deduce, I can get full pours at the Brick Farm Tavern, and growler fills after I take a tour. Is there any point at which I can just have a taster/small pour to see if I want a fill? Also, is the Brick Farm Tavern worth the money? I figure I'm going all the way out there, and the menu looks pretty good, so I was thinking about trying to get a lunch reservation.

Does The Referend fill growlers of any sort?

And if anybody has had Shamanic Revelation from Conclave, please feel free to describe how good it is so that I can try to convince my gf to add that to our itinerary.

was also thinking of visiting these 3 on Saturday

 

[Newmoneyloons]

I'm making the trek out to Troon and The Referend this weekend (and also to The Bent Spoon, because that **** is delicious, I don't care if its December). Some questions for those that have been.

Whats the setup at Troon? Like, from what I can deduce, I can get full pours at the Brick Farm Tavern, and growler fills after I take a tour. Is there any point at which I can just have a taster/small pour to see if I want a fill? Also, is the Brick Farm Tavern worth the money? I figure I'm going all the way out there, and the menu looks pretty good, so I was thinking about trying to get a lunch reservation.

Does The Referend fill growlers of any sort?

And if anybody has had Shamanic Revelation from Conclave, please feel free to describe how good it is so that I can try to convince my gf to add that to our itinerary.

Shamanic Revelation is a lighter malt body than G-waves with the wonderful mother daughter combo that only simcoe and mosaic can provide with a little help that citra add to the party in your mouth. Plus both gwaves and shamanic are on growler fills this weekend.

 

[MKtheGeneral]

was also thinking of visiting these 3 on Saturday

Even with the snow?

 

[Os]

Even with the snow?

nothing set in stone...

 

[DigDug1810]

if you guys are wine fans unionville winery is out that way too i think and have some nice wines.. at least imo.. i'm no wine buff but it's worth noting imo since maybe if wives/gf's are with you they may enjoy wine over beer and there is a nice option for that too

 

[gregkoko]

Kane going to start doing small batch and limited run beers in cans.

 

[seedavid]

Kane going to start doing small batch and limited run beers in cans.

I swear to christ, if I see one unoccupied camping chair outside of that building before it opens, I am just going to snap.

 

[Jspriest]

I'm making the trek out to Troon and The Referend this weekend (and also to The Bent Spoon, because that **** is delicious, I don't care if its December). Some questions for those that have been.

Whats the setup at Troon? Like, from what I can deduce, I can get full pours at the Brick Farm Tavern, and growler fills after I take a tour. Is there any point at which I can just have a taster/small pour to see if I want a fill? Also, is the Brick Farm Tavern worth the money? I figure I'm going all the way out there, and the menu looks pretty good, so I was thinking about trying to get a lunch reservation.

Does The Referend fill growlers of any sort?

And if anybody has had Shamanic Revelation from Conclave, please feel free to describe how good it is so that I can try to convince my gf to add that to our itinerary.

The Bent Spoon knows no season/is always appropriate.

Brick Farm Tavern offers small pours of the Troon beers they have on, and their food is great (worth it if you're inclined) and not uniformly expensive.

We're not yet offering growlers at The Referend. Probably in the spring we'll start in on the beer pouches of young ~lambic.

Shamanic Revelation's worth the trip, definitely get up there if you can.

EDITED FOR: We're using the same Mosaic/Citra/Simcoe hop combo in our dry-hopped spontaneously fermented ~Berliner. So it's required to hit both for science.

And say hi if you feel so inclined. It's been fun finally/gradually meeting the beertrading.org cadre.

 

[Stewmeister91]

Any juice on some of the lesser discussed NJ breweries? Anyone doing anything interesting? There are so many, can't keep track.

 

[Timmush1]

...so that I can try to convince my gf to add that to our itinerary.

What is her favorite beer?

 

[seedavid]

Any juice on some of the lesser discussed NJ breweries? Anyone doing anything interesting? There are so many, can't keep track.

Spellbound seems to be chugging along nicely. They canned a coffee porter recently, and are set up to can more small batches going forward.

I finally had a second Dark City beer that I thought tasted good. Side Piece, their cranberry gose, was actually very nice. I also still like their Bond Street Brownie, which I think they are releasing a BBA version of soon. Otherwise, their stuff still tastes off to me.

Demented is about to start canning (maybe DJPhresh wants to share some more details).

Man Skirt is canning too.

I'm sitting at Magnify right now, and their Turkish coffee porter with the stupid name is pretty good. The triple IPA was also good.

That's all I got.

 

[seedavid]

What is her favorite beer?

She already likes your beer, so it might be more of a layup than I'm thinking. It's just that she's like 100 pounds of thunder, and burns bright/burns fast, so 3 breweries might be too much for her to handle. I figured if I could present her with some rave reviews though, it'd help convince her to power thru.

 

[Timmush1]

I was just asking because I would bribe her with a non-local beer too. Plus there is shopping at the outlets 5 minutes away

 

[regularjohn]

Kane going to start doing small batch and limited run beers in cans.

Any idea which beers? drop some hints bruh

 

[user 312341]

I'm making the trek out to Troon and The Referend this weekend (and also to The Bent Spoon, because that **** is delicious, I don't care if its December). Some questions for those that have been.

Whats the setup at Troon? Like, from what I can deduce, I can get full pours at the Brick Farm Tavern, and growler fills after I take a tour. Is there any point at which I can just have a taster/small pour to see if I want a fill? Also, is the Brick Farm Tavern worth the money? I figure I'm going all the way out there, and the menu looks pretty good, so I was thinking about trying to get a lunch reservation.

Does The Referend fill growlers of any sort?

And if anybody has had Shamanic Revelation from Conclave, please feel free to describe how good it is so that I can try to convince my gf to add that to our itinerary.

Will also be there Saturday for Quality Os Time and beers, if the weather isn't terrible (or I don't decide to be a hermit).

 

[Kingfish1]

I'm making the trek out to Troon and The Referend this weekend (and also to The Bent Spoon, because that **** is delicious, I don't care if its December). Some questions for those that have been.

Whats the setup at Troon? Like, from what I can deduce, I can get full pours at the Brick Farm Tavern, and growler fills after I take a tour. Is there any point at which I can just have a taster/small pour to see if I want a fill? Also, is the Brick Farm Tavern worth the money? I figure I'm going all the way out there, and the menu looks pretty good, so I was thinking about trying to get a lunch reservation.

Does The Referend fill growlers of any sort?

And if anybody has had Shamanic Revelation from Conclave, please feel free to describe how good it is so that I can try to convince my gf to add that to our itinerary.

I was only at Troon before the official opening, but at that point you could taste the beers in the brewery before getting a growler. Not sure if that is still the case though, or if you have to do that at the bar now, so I'm not much help. Also, you might want to check what time Troon is open. Now that it is "officially" open they may have longer hours, but previously it was just evenings.

I haven't had a chance to eat at the Tavern yet, but it gets pretty rave reviews from friends and critics. Pricey, but everything is from the farm.

And for those craving Jasper Hill cheese the Brick Farm Market just down the street has it as well as a good variety of other cheeses.

 

[DWhite]

Anyone have any opinions on Cypress brewing? Never been there or tried anything from them but a release they are doing this Saturday caught my eye.

Two bombers, one is a coconut cocoa cold brew porter and the other is a barrel aged imperial stout (cinnamon/nutmeg/vanilla/chili).

If this was a Kane release obviously we'd all be losing our ****. Anyone planning on going or try anything from Cypress want to comment? If I'm not doing anything else might have to check this out, the coconut cold brew will be on tap prior to buying at least.

 

[seedavid]

I was just asking because I would bribe her with a non-local beer too. Plus there is shopping at the outlets 5 minutes away

Well, we'll definitely be there tomorrow around 1. I didn't even tell her you were willing to pop something, she was just psyched to drink some Conclave.

 

[CoinStarChange]

I swear to christ, if I see one unoccupied camping chair outside of that building before it opens, I am just going to snap.

Well, you would think the production would be on the scale of Head High/Overhead batches as of late, so you'd hope that would never become an issue. Wait and see.

 

[gregkoko]

Any idea which beers? drop some hints bruh

Hop Lab Citra is coming up in actual cans (rebranded as Sneak Box). My guess will be beers like Party Wave, other Hop Labs, Ripple. Doubt we're going to see stouts or porters in cans, but if they want to give me 16oz cans of Holy Nights be my guest.

 

[MikeG1]

Hop Lab Citra is coming up in actual cans (rebranded as Sneak Box). My guess will be beers like Party Wave, other Hop Labs, Ripple. Doubt we're going to see stouts or porters in cans, but if they want to give me 16oz cans of Holy Nights be my guest.

CANTEAD or bust.

 

[user 312341]

Hop Lab Citra is coming up in actual cans (rebranded as Sneak Box). My guess will be beers like Party Wave, other Hop Labs, Ripple. Doubt we're going to see stouts or porters in cans, but if they want to give me 16oz cans of Holy Nights be my guest.

Heh. Box.

(This all sounds great.)

 

[benz08]

If anyone wants to come keep me company.

 

[benz08]

Hop Lab Citra is coming up in actual cans (rebranded as Sneak Box). My guess will be beers like Party Wave, other Hop Labs, Ripple. Doubt we're going to see stouts or porters in cans, but if they want to give me 16oz cans of Holy Nights be my guest.

Galaxy head high already has a label since it's already been bottled. Can vs bottle doesn't require a new label so that's the easiest one for them to release quickly.

 

[seedavid]

God damn snow put me behind schedule, causing me to have to cancel my Brick Farm reservation. But I'm still planning to head down.

I need that Bent Spoon hot chocolate w/ the nj honey vanilla marshie.

 

[user 312341]

God damn snow put me behind schedule, causing me to have to cancel my Brick Farm reservation. But I'm still planning to head down.

I need that Bent Spoon hot chocolate w/ the nj honey vanilla marshie.

Have fun. Won't be making it down today after all, so let us know how everything is!

 

[Os]

now debating going to Suarez since we didn't go down there...

 

[Zimm]

Well Referend has impressed. Specifically like the Gloria and Jung but excited simply excited this is fairly close to me.