Review date: 11/21/19 Reviewed by: The Stoutmeister and Pretzel Since the infancy of Pretzel’s Beer Blog, we searched for beer tours in the New Jersey area. There are several South Jersey breweries (Lunacy Brewing Company, Flying Fish Brewing) that are part of a Philadelphia City Brew Tour route, and South Jersey Beer Scene has sponsored Read More…
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Retired 56-year-old IT Director searching for the best beer in South Jersey
Great American Beer Fest (Denver, Colorado)
Great American Beer Fest The Colorado Convention Center 700 14th Street Denver, CO 80202 Event Dates: October 3 – 5, 2019 Reported by: The Rabbit Well, we went and did it… The Great American Beerfest in Denver, Colorado. This annual event is the culmination of 800 Brewers, from all over the U.S., with over 4,000 beers. An Read More…
Glassboro Craft Beer Festival 2019 (Glassboro, Gloucester County)
Glassboro Craft Beer Festival 2019 Glassboro Town Square 1 High St. W Glassboro, NJ 08028 Beer Fest Date: 9/28/2019 Reported by: The Stoutmeister It was a beautiful day but still too hot for me to be outdoors in my lederhosen (Bummer!). I am saving my lederhosen for the cooler weather. There were lots of beer Read More…
Oyster Creek Brewing Co. (Waretown, Ocean County)
Oyster Creek Brewing Company 529 U.S. 9, #5 Waretown, NJ 08758 Review Date: 9/8/19 Reported by: Pretzel Hi fellow beer-lovers! The Beer Posse headed up to Waretown in Ocean County to check out Oyster Creek Brewing Company. Their overall theme pays homage to the now decommissioned Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station. Princess expressed some concern and Read More…
NJ Fall Beer Festivals 2019
Periodically, I get someone reaching out to me regarding topics for upcoming posts or recommendations for area breweries. Recently I got an email from a reader who wanted to submit an article to be included in Pretzel’s Beer Blog. Once I read her proposed article, I was excited to add it to our archives. Our Read More…
Summer Swelter Craft Beer Fest 2019 (Pitman, Gloucester County)
Summer Swelter Craft Beer Fest Total Turf Experience 614 Lambs Rd Pitman, NJ 08071 Reported by: The Rabbit The second anniversary of the swelter fest had a lot of improvements over the first year. The location was far better for beer drinking as it had both inside and outside components available. The inside had 33 breweries Read More…
CoHo Brewing Company (Cape May Court House, Cape May County)
Address: 28 Indian Trail Rd, Suite 103 Cape May Court House, NJ 08210 Review Date: 08/10/2019 Reported by: Pretzel Hello Peeps! The Stoutmeister and I joined up with JohnMacBeer and Dark Matter to check out what was happening at CoHo Brewing Company in Cape May Court House. It was a warm summer afternoon, and nothing makes me Read More…
Manafirkin Brewing Company (Manahawken, Ocean County)
Address: Manafirkin Brewing Company 450 E. Bay Ave Manahawken, NJ 08050 Review Date: 07/14/19 Reported by: Pretzel We’re branching out a little, beer friends. I’m going to start adding some video tidbits to these reviews. Let me know what you think. A subset of the Beer Posse (Pretzel, The Stoutmeister, The Rabbit, and The Good Neighbor) headed Read More…
Around The [NJ Beer] World in 80 days
Dates: 3/29/19 – 6/19/19 Reported by: The Stoutmeister First let me just report it! We hit 101 NJ Breweries in 80 days. These included ALL NJ Breweries with open tasting rooms. During the 2019 Atlantic City Beer and Music Festival, brewery hopping passports were given out; this year, it was distributed by the Community Read More…
2019 The Philadelphia Zoo Summer Ale Fest (Philadelphia, PA)
Date: 6/22/2019 Location: The Philadelphia Zoo 3400 W. Girard Ave Philadelphia, PA 19104 Given that The Beer Posse has previously reviewed The Summer Ale Fest (See links below), I have asked each of the attending Beer Posse members to write up a paragraph on their adventure at the zoo. Reported by: The Stoutmeister The Philly Read More…