Collection: Beer Library

Peach & Grüner Veltliner | 2020 Harvest

Spontaneous

In September 2020 we received our first pressing of some New Jersey grown and harvested Grüner Veltliner juice. In preparation for the blend, our team chose a barrel of mature 2-year-old buckwheat spontaneously fermented beer and a younger traditionally brewed spontaneously fermented beer. After marrying the juice with our spontaneously fermented beer, we allowed the blend to referment and mature in oak with the addition of that year's New Jersey yellow peach harvest for an additional year. Peach & Grüner Veltliner was then bottled and conditioned for a year and a half prior to release. The total average age of Peach & Grüner Veltliner 2020 Harvest is just over 3 years at release. Peach & Grüner Veltliner | 2020 Harvest pours a light peach color and is brimming with fresh, juicy peach aromatics. The Grüner Veltliner shows through in the lean, crisp body of the beer that is enhanced with a sparkling high carbonation lending notes of fresh sliced apples, honey, and ginger.

Cherry & Strawberry | 2020 Harvest

Spontaneous

In June 2020, we traveled down to our favorite New Jersey strawberry farmer to pick up some overripe and incredibly aromatic strawberries. For this blend, our team selected a blend of two casks with an average age of 13 months to showcase the bright strawberry aromatics. After hand crushing the strawberries, we opt for a short contact time to extract the aromatic juices of the strawberries. We then took a portion of this beer and racked it onto the 2020 harvest of New Jersey Montmorency cherries. The beer then conditioned on the whole cherries in oak casks for an additional 6 months prior to bottling. Cherry & Strawberry | 2020 harvest spent an additional 2 years in bottle to allow for additional flavor development. The total average age of Cherry & Strawberry | 2020 Harvest is over 3.5 years at release. Cherry & Strawberry | 2020 Harvest pours a beautiful deep red color with immediate aromatics of fresh strawberries and pie cherries. The top-note perfumy aromatics of strawberries are intermingled with the deeper baking spice, cinnamon and sweet pie notes.

Elderflower | 2020 Harvest

Spontaneous

In early May 2020, our team traveled to one of our favorite small farms in New Jersey to hand-pick the year's elderflower harvest. Our team carefully selected a blend of some of our favorite mature barrels with an average age of 19 months at the time. We cold macerate the freshly harvested flowers in our traditionally made spontaneously fermented beer for a single night to retain only the most elegant floral aromatics. The beer was then racked back to oak for further conditioning for an additional 6 months prior to bottling. After bottling, Elderflower | 2020 Harvest spent over two years conditioning and rounding out to perfection. The total average age of Elderflower | 2020 Harvest is nearly 4.5 years. Elderflower | 2020 Harvest pours a brilliant golden color with incredibly creamy and well-integrated carbonation. The aromatics immediately burst with a beautiful green apple and fresh spring flowers, while the base beer brings well-rounded acidity balanced by flavors of apricots and pomelo.

Barrel-Lagered Winter Daydream

Barrel-Lagered Winter Bock

7.9% ABV

Barrel Lagered Winter Daydream is a 7.9% Winter Bock. We took Winter Daydream and gave it an additional 2 months of lagering in freshly emptied bourbon barrels. Brewed with traditional German base and roasted malts, Winter Daydream pours a dark mahogany with ruby highlights. It has rounded aromatics with nuances of bourbon, vanilla and chocolate from the intermingling of the beer and oak with a plush mouthfeel boosted by the additional lagering time. Barrel Lagered Winter Day Dream, balanced and clean.

Chocolate Coconut Biscotti

Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout

13.0% ABV

Chocolate Coconut Biscotti is our decadent 13.0% Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout brewed with maple syrup and lactose that began as a blend of Imperial Stouts aged in Eagle Rare, Blanton's, Russel's Reserve, and Woodford Double Oaked bourbon barrels for an average of 16 months. It was then conditioned on a blend of cacao nibs from Ghana, Haiti and the Philippines along with Madagascar vanilla beans and freshly toasted Marcona almonds and coconut. Chocolate Coconut Biscotti pours black with a mocha foam head and rich aromatics of fresh baked pastries dipped in chocolate. The coconut adds a sweet creamy component and another layer of decadence to this classic cookie inspired treat.

Mexican Dessert

Imperial Milk Porter

9.2% ABV

Mexican Dessert is our 9.2% massive and decadent Imperial Milk Porter brewed with heaps of Vermont Maple Syrup and conditioned on graham crackers, coconut, maple syrup, cinnamon, cacao nibs, ancho chilies and Rook coffee. It is brewed with a blend of German and British malts to provide a complex base for this delicious dessert beer Mexican Dessert pours black with a mocha foam and aromatics of s'mores, bakers chocolate, maple syrup and Mexican chocolate milk along with a creamy top note of toasted coconut.

Bourbon Barrel-Aged Driftwood (2023)

Barrel-Aged Imperial Brown Ale

13.8% ABV

Driftwood Bourbon is our 13.8% Imperial Brown Ale, a beautifully, smooth sipper. Aged in a blend of Buffalo Trace EH Taylor Small Batch Bourbon and Woodford Reserve Double Oaked Bourbon casks for an average of 32 months. It is brewed with a base of Golden Promise barley and a blend of British crystal and roast malts and the addition of both maple syrup and molasses in the boil. Driftwood Bourbon pours a dark mahogany color with aromas of maple soaked french toast, flavors of marshmallows, creamy bourbon vanilla and baking spices.

Winter Daydream

Bock

7.4% ABV

Winter Daydream is our 7.4% Winter Bock. Our take on a traditional bold German Bock. It's brewed with a complex grist of German pilsner and Munich males along with a touch of wheat and roast malts. Winter Daydream pours a dark brown color with a rocky foam from natural carbonation. It has aromatics of fresh baked brown bread and a light flavor profile of chocolate, coffee and hazlenuts. It’s complexity is balanced by the bitterness from our Seitz Farms hops.

Morning Mocha

Imperial Milk Porter

9.2% ABV

Morning Mocha is brewed with a pilsner base and a blend of British and German crystal and roast malts, lightly sweetened with the addition of milk sugar. Morning Mocha pours a mocha brown with aromatics of fudgy sweet chocolate and cold brewed coffee. Flavors of brownies, maple syrup are supported by a nutty chocolate profile.

Morning Bell

Imperial Milk Porter

9.2% ABV

Morning Bell is brewed with a pilsner base and a blend of British and German crystal and roast malts, lightly sweetened with the addition of milk sugar. Following fermentation and cold conditioning, Morning Bell is conditioned on a blend of Rook dark roast coffee. Morning Bell is bold, rich, creamy, smooth, and delicious. It pours a mocha brown with balanced aromatics of freshly ground coffee with a touch of cream. Notes of chocolate and sweet caramel provide complexity to the milk porter base.

Morning Bean

Imperial Milk Porter

9.2% ABV

Morning Bean is brewed with a pilsner base and a blend of British and German crystal and roast malts, lightly sweetened with the addition of milk sugar. Morning Bean pours a mocha brown with balanced aromatics of crème brûlée, cake frosting and freshly ground coffee. Notes of milk chocolate and coffee ice cream fill out the profile of Morning Bean. Morning Mocha is conditioned on dark roast coffee and Madagascar vanilla beans.

Double Double Cask

Barrel-Aged Barleywine

12.8% ABV

Double Double Cask is our 12.8% double barrel aged barley wine. This release came from two separate barley wines, chosen for their notable complexity. The first component originated from a 2-day boiled barley wine aged initially for 12 months in a blend of large format Cognac and Jura wine casks before then being aged an additional 24 months in a single 13-Year-Old Forester Bourbon cask. The second component came from one of our favorite English barley wine recipes that was aged initially in a large format Armagnac cask for 20 months before being aged an additional 22 months in a single Early Times 10-Year Bourbon cask. Double Double Cask has an average age of 39 months. Double Double Cask pours a near-black dark brown with aromatics of rum raisin, candied oranges and chestnuts along with undertones of cacao and crème brûlée.

Shifting Squall

Imperial Stout

9.0% ABV

Shifting Squall is brewed with a robust grist composition featuring choice English Golden Promise, Oats, Chocolate and Roast malts and hopped with Cascade, Chinook, and Bravo in the Whirlpool. This beer underwent a double-mash process which involved two separate mashes collected together and boiled for an extended period, allowing for further development of flavor. Shifting Squall pours jet black with a cascading mocha tan head and presents a complex flavor profile of fruity dark malts, chocolate-citrus, baker’s chocolate, and roasty burnt brownie edges rounded out by a pleasant resinous hop bitterness.

4018

Barrel-Aged Stout & Porter Blend

13.1% ABV

Blend of Barrel-Aged Stouts and Porters hand-selected to create a beer inspired by one of our favorite chocolate ice cream treats. This blend of stouts and porters was aged for an average of 16 months in a mix of Buffalo Trace Blanton’s Bourbon and 10 Year Wild Turkey Russell’s Bourbon barrels. ⁣After cold-conditioning in stainless, the blend was aged on Madagascar Vanilla Beans, Cacao Nibs from Haiti, Ghana, and the Philippines, and crushed waffle ice cream cones. ⁣

Cherry | 2020 Harvest

Spontaneous

Cherry | 2020 comes from a blend of two batches across the Spring and Fall of 2019. Approximately 45% of the blend came from a 16-month-old traditionally brewed spontaneous beer brewed with an elevated hopping rate while the balance of the blend came from 7-month-old traditional spontaneous beer with the addition of New Jersey blueberry blossom honey in the coolship. For Cherry 2020 Harvest, we pulled this blend with an average age of 11 months for fruiting. We then added a very large amount of New Jersey grown and harvested montmorency cherries directly to oak barrels with the beer where it rested for an additional 12 months to integrate all aspects of the cherry from the juice, skin and pits. We bottled this blend in June of 2021 and it will have conditioned for over 12 months prior to release. Cherry 2020 Harvest will have an average age of 35 months. Cherry 2020 Harvest pours with a beautiful blush red with big cherry pie aromatics supported by almond and nuttiness while the flavor brings juicy and jammy stonefruit, a light funk and a very balanced acidity.

Dry Hopped Markt | Blend N°1

Saison

Dry Hopped Markt is a blend of hoppy saison brewed with pilsner and wheat. It was aged for a year in oak before being blended, dry hopped and bottled. It was dry hopped with Amarillo and Waimea hops at a rate of 3 lbs / BBL. The interplay of the dry hop and the mixed culture brings forward notes of key lime, grapefruit aromatics, a balancing acidity and oaky vanilla undertones.

Heirloom | Blend N°1

Saison

Heirloom is brewed with New Jersey grown and malted Pilsner, chit malt and malted wheat, bittered with aged hops, then we added fresh Styrian Goldings throughout the kettle. Open fermented with our mixed saison culture before being racked to oak. Heirloom is blended and given a light dry hopping with EKG. The dry hopping provides additional structure to the mouthfeel and some hay-like aromatics that evolve over time with Brettanomyces in the bottle. Drinks with a light body, acidity, and refreshing high carbonation.

Peach & Nectarine | 2020 Harvest

Spontaneous

Peach & Nectarine | 2020 Harvest is a blend across three brewing seasons with the oldest component brewed in the Fall of 2018. In 2020, we received a beautiful harvest of New Jersey grown peaches and nectarines. We took our base blend with an average age of 15 months and refermented it on over 6.5 lbs per gallon of yellow peaches and 3 lbs per gallon of yellow and white nectarines before aging it in cask for an additional 5 months prior to packaging. We then laid the beer down in bottle for an additional 11 months of conditioning. Upon release, Peach & Nectarine | 2020 Harvest will be 31 months old. Peach & Nectarine | 2020 Harvest pours a pale yellow with juicy aromatics of ripe peaches along with floral top notes, flavors of grapefruit, a touch of noyaux and a pleasantly balanced acidity.

Shiro Plum | 2020 Harvest

Spontaneous

In late July of 2020, we received a massive harvest of yellow New Jersey grown Shiro plums from one of our farm friends. ⁣ ⁣ We selected a single oak barrel of young spontaneous beer to blend at a 1:1 ratio for refermentation. ⁣ ⁣ After squishing the overripe fruit by hand, the beer was allowed to rest on the fruit and absorb the flavors of the plum juice, skins and pits. ⁣ ⁣ After refermentation the blend rested on the fruit for an additional 12 months prior to bottling. ⁣ ⁣ After bottle conditioning for an additional 16 months, Shiro Plum | 2020 Harvest has an average age of 37 months.⁣ ⁣ Shiro Plum | 2020 Harvest pours a hazy pale blonde with lively carbonation that drives a sturdy white foam. Aromatics of plum skin and a light salinity, a balancing honeysuckle vanilla with notes of rainier cherries.⁣

Peach & Noyaux | 2020 Harvest

Spontaneous

Peach & Noyaux | 2020 Harvest was pulled from several batches across the 18|19 and 19|20 brewing seasons.⁣ ⁣ The blend had an average age of eight months for fruiting. 90% of this blend originated from a turbid mashed spontaneous beer brewed with only barley and the addition of both aged and fresh hops. The remaining portion of this blend came from traditionally brewed spontaneous beers.⁣ ⁣ For fruiting we received 1,100lbs of New Jersey grown yellow Clingstone peaches which had the pits separated and were hand-crushed at peak ripeness.⁣ ⁣ We then lightly cracked the peach pits and added them to the blend with the fruit. The beer was allowed to referment and condition on the fruit for an additional year in oak.⁣ ⁣ We bottled this blend in August of 2021 and it will have conditioned for 12 months prior to release.⁣ ⁣ Peach & Noyaux | 2020 Harvest will have an average age of 32 months upon release.⁣ ⁣ Peach & Noyaux pours a bright yellow with aromatics of juicy peach flesh, vanilla and marzipan. ⁣

Dry-Hopped Peach | 2019 Harvest

Spontaneous

Blended from a single barrel of traditional spontaneously fermented beer brewed in the Fall of 2018, aged in a cognac cask. Peach Dry Hop presents an intertwining profile of floral peach aromatics, a powdery Amarillo hop punch and a light but refreshing acidity.

Dry-Hopped Shiro Plum | 2019 Harvest

Spontaneous

From a single barrel of traditional spontaneously fermented beer brewed in December 2018, with the addition of blueberry blossom honey in the coolship. The yellow plums show a golden hue with full, bright aromatics of pineapple upside-down cake, juicy plum flavors and a depth of stone fruit supported by a subtle, light honey character from our spontaneously fermented beer.

Apiary | Blend Nº1

Saison

Apiary was brewed with New Jersey grown and malted barley and buckwheat with the addition of New Jersey blueberry blossom honey. We used a traditional step mash to drive a crisp, dry profile, balanced by the bittering addition of aged whole leaf noble hops. Apiary presents with a honeycomb aroma balanced by a dry fermentation and high effervescence. The extended conditioning time pushes aromatics of hay and light funk, grapefruit, spice, toasted brioche and honey.

Grisaille | Blend Nº1

Saison

A mixed culture Grisette brewed with pilsner, wheat and oats, and hopped with whole leaf UK East Kent Goldings. We use a traditional step mash for dry, crisp profile balanced by the aged hops in an extended boil. Grisaille pours a bright straw hue with a rocky white head pushing aromatics of vanilla, lemongrass and honeysuckle. Grisaille carries oak driven flavors of vanilla and coconut that play off the fruitier Brettanomyces derived pineapple and citrus flavors.