BLACK POND MR. KITTY
Light-roast coffee tones pick up mild nuttiness, dark-roast hop oiling and raw molasses bittering. Freeze-dried coffee finish gains black chocolate sway.
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PERKIOMEN VALLEY BREWERY
GREEN LANE, PENNSYLVANIA
Renegade spousal-owned multifaceted nanobrewery, PERKIOMEN VALLEY BREWERY, honors the local pre-prohibition brewhouse that served 20,000 yearly barrels at its 1919 peak while celebrating the antique artifacts PVB’s former drive-thru bank left behind. A comfortable family-friendly tap room embracing individuals with mobility and sensory issues, owners Kelly and Tom Weiss have raised two autistic sons who now ably assist this idiosyncratic community haven.
Opened June 21, 2019, the Weiss family’s already crafted 115 sundry brews since inception as …
TILTED BARN THE CHOSEN ONE DOUBLE IPA
On tap at Growler & Gill, bright ‘n lively dry-hopped Imperial IPA lets lemony grapefruit rind bittering take hold before juicy orange zesting and tangy guava-papaya-passionfruit-tangerine tropicalia gains waxy crayon oiling, spruce-tipped pine resin and mild herbal musk above buttery pale malts.
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OTHER DESI HIGH CHAI STOUT
On tap at Jealous Monk, intensely designed chai tea-spiced mocha deliverance picks up dewy peat mossing and waddle seeded cocoa crisping. Ascending chocolate vanilla sweetness seeps into Indian shortbread-floured cinnamon, cardamom and ginger spicing, picking up lavender-minted black peppercorn herbage and sassafras smidge. A unique offbeat stout.
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TOPPLING GOLIATH CHERRY FANDANGO SOUR
On tap at Taphouse 15, kettle-soured ‘cinnamon-crushed cherry pie’ may lack advertised sweet spicing but its oaken cherry salting, candied cherry tartness and cherry rhubarb twang provide lightly embittered snazziness countering just a pinch of grenadine sweetness.
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NEW PARK BREWING
WEST HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT
Becoming West Hartford’s first craft beer operation on March 25, 2017, NEW PARK BREWING boasts a rotation of ‘originally designed’ recurrent, seasonal and one-off elixirs with popular hoppy IPA, Cloudscape, leading the way. Set in a 19th century-built Industrial zoned edifice with high ceiling, cement floors and decorative wood mosaics, the casual juke joint’s a popular attraction for the so-called streetcar suburb.
Managing the 2,500 square foot warehouse, New Park owner John Doyle hired home brewing biomedical …
TOMS RIVER BREWING
TOMS RIVER, NEW JERSEY
Assuming the beige marbled brewhouse previously run by Rinn Duin, TOMS RIVER BREWING took over this novel Jersey Shore chateau-like villa springtime 2019. New owner Jim Mulligan’s transformative grand reopening featured head brewer Bob Warzecha’s newly designed wide ranging ales, utilizing natural fruit extracts and flavoring.
A left side community-tabled Beer Garden (with green umbrellas) edges the narrow pub space. A ten-seat L-shaped bar with speckled gray granite top opposes the windowed brew tanks and a …
GRIMM 3RD ANNIVERSARY TRIPLE IPA
Fruitful 3rd Anniversary celebrator relinquishes zesty orange-peeled vanilla creaming for yogurt-soured pink guava, pineapple, papaya, passionfruit and mango tropicalia, gaining lemony clementine, grapefruit and tangerine illusions for marmalade-like fruit basket.
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HEIST PICK’N SERIES (TANGERINE, PASSIONFRUIT, APRICOT)
Freshly squeezed tangerine juicing and passionfruit-soured apricot tartness snag salty wheat base, leaving mild citric acidity on the back end.
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LONG LOT FARM BREWERY
CHESTER, NEW YORK
A quaint family-owned farmhouse nanobrewery in the idyllic countryside of Orange County, Chester’s LONG LOT FARM BREWERY occupies a tin-roofed red aluminum sided converted dairy barn. Open for business since early 2018, former homebrewer Curtis Johnson utilizes local ingredients to craft his rustically rangy one-offs, seasonals and semi-permanent suds.
A covered front porch with hanging Edison lights introduces patrons to the diminutive wood-floored Long Lot barroom. The spare interior setup includes a small tree top-barked serving station …
2ND STORY BREWING CO.
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
A block from Penns Landing at Philly’s Old City neighborhood, 2ND STORY BREWING CO. opened its doors autumn 2015 at the former Triumph Brewing site. A modern Industrial ‘rustic chic’ wood-furnished pub with elongated 20-seat chop-block bar (and multi TV’s for sports fans), its upscale mezzanine banquet hall (with secondary bar) and glass-encased brew tanks fill out the exquisite ‘second story.’
Crafting classically inspired farm-to-table brews utilizing locally sourced ingredients, 2nd Story brewmaster John Wible’s revolving taps served …
CZIG MEISTER NEW ENGLAND STYLE CALESCENT
Penetrative lemony grapefruit zesting contacts oaken vanilla bittering in mildly lactic NEIPA environs. Sharp orange candied tartness picks up intensity as wispily soured papaya, passionfruit and guava tropicalia and resinous pine tones flutter.
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