New Jersey Craft Beer

A Lady Walks into a Bar…The Whitechapel Projects

Where I Was The Whitechapel Projects, Long Branch, NJ When, Exactly Friday, September 20, 4:05 p.m. Where I Sat I headed straight to the...
Montclair Brewery, Montclair, Essex County, Beer, Peter Culos

A Close-Up Look at Montclair Brewery

Opening a new brewery is no small feat, and Leo and Denise Ford Sawadogo made it happen in—and for—Montclair. The...
Triumph Brewing, Gabrielle Garofalo, A Lady Walks into a Bar, Jersey Bites, Red Bank, Monmouth County

A Lady Walks into a Bar…Triumph Brewing Co.

Where I Was Triumph Brewing Co., Red Bank, NJ When, Exactly Friday, August 9, 12:21 p.m. Where I Sat Triumph is a big space and...
Source Brewing Colts Neck NJ

A New Source for Great Beer in New Jersey: Source Brewing

Attention to detail is the theme for New Jersey’s newest farm brewery. Source Brewing’s owner, Philip Petracca, seems to...

Red Bank Craft Beer: Breweries, Brew Pubs and Bars

Although it’s one of New Jersey’s hippest towns, Red Bank has been a little slow in jumping on the...
Carton Brewing, Barn Beer, Jersey Bites, Peter Culos

Carton Brewing Builds a Barn (Beer)

Carton Brewing,in Atlantic Highlands, NJ, has built a barn. Sort of. If you haven’t heard it, Steal This Beer is...

Beer-cation: Brewery Tourism in New Jersey

When Izzo’s Brew Bus offered to give Jersey Bites a spin in their 13-seat van, I couldn’t have been...
For the love of the craft dinner

For the Love of Craft Beer

I’ve been to homebrew competitions. I’ve also been to more than my share of beer tastings. Beer pairings? Yup,...

Little Dog Brewing: Barking up the Right Tree

“There’s a lotta love for the Little Dog,” quips Gretchen Schmidhausler, owner of Little Dog Brewing Co., in Neptune,...
Scary craft beers

Spooky New Jersey Brews to Try this October

It’s October: the scary month. Yes, there are fall festivals, Oktoberfests, foliage, and baseball playoffs, but the underlying theme...
A Man and His Boat Beer

A Man and His Boat (Beer)

New Jersey has 130 miles of coastline and more rivers and lakes than I can count. We’ve also got...

Cape May Brewing Is Making All the Right Moves

If you’ve been paying attention to the New Jersey craft beer scene lately, you’ve noticed that there is a...

Latest Bites

Kentucky Comes to New Jersey: Five Springs Infused Bourbon

What do New Jersey and Kentucky have in common? Well, Lisa Sawyer Derman and Five Springs Infused Bourbon for starters. Derman grew up in Kentucky...