NEWTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA

At a red brick Industrial mall along Penns Trail, family-owned NEWTOWN BREWING COMPANY opened its taproom, October 2019. Crafting sturdily stylistic beers in a conservatively well-designed neo-mod colonial space, co-owner Gregg Bonstein spent a few years as a homebrewer and partnered with his wife, Sara, to get Newtown Brewing up and running.

Inside, the vinyl wood-planked floor leads to the twelve-chaired black top bar. Recalling an upscale farmhouse, there is a barn-like kiosk, ten stainless steeled draught handles along the earthen brick back wall and ten rustic four-seat hardwood tables. Large barreled brew equipment towards the back left side sidles a backspace entertainment area.

My wife and I caroused at Newtown late Sunday afternoon one week before the Eagles landed in the ’25 Super Bowl.

Dry light lager, Believe, sprayed lemon zest atop honey-spiced French breading.

Dewy sweet Vienna Lager, 60% Of The Time It Works Every Time, let toasted amber grains pick up floral-daubed spicing and musty dried fruiting.

Sweet orange peeled coriander prodded laidback witbier, Yippee-Ki-Yay Orange Sucker, hiding floral whims, wispy herbage and buttery vanilla beneath the hard-candied citrus surface.

Ultra-dry piney grapefruit bittering secured West Coast IPA, Pine Needles & Sunshine, picking up tangy pineapple zesting and sweet-tart orange candied glaze.

Waxy fruited New England IPA, The Haze Is Strong With This One, affixed lemon-dropped pineapple bittering and tart guava-gooseberry souring to sweet orange peel zesting, a creamy oats-based medium body.

Chalky dark chocolate-y burnt coffee nuttiness given soy milking for earthen English dark mild, Practically Perfect In Every Way, but its flavor fades.

Holiday-spiced winter warmer, Cotton-Headed Ninny Muggins, sprinkled brown-sugared cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and clove atop confectionery gingerbread, picking up sweet orange peel spritz.

Creamy chocolate peanut butter stout, You Merely Adopted The Dark, I Was Born In It, dabbed persistent mocha nuttiness with light vanilla sweetness above honeyed Graham Cracker base.