Posts tagged Garden State Beer Crafters Guild Annual Beer Festival

In this issue:

• Help New Jersey Breweries Grow and Thrive!
• Tickets on Sale for 15th Annual Beer Festival
• Trap Rock Beer Dinners June 7 and 14
• Krogh’s to Host Homebrewing Event
• Woodbridge Lite on Tap, Black Magic Schwarzbier on Deck at JJ Bitting
• High Point Blondes Out for the Summer
• Flying Fish Exits 11 & 16 Make Brief Reappearance
• Guild Breweries Take Part in Philly Beer Week
• June Events

Help New Jersey Breweries Grow and Thrive!

The Guild has introduced legislation to help us continue to create jobs, generate tourism and promote beer in New Jersey. Our state now has the largest number of breweries in almost 100 years. Unfortunately, in some cases, the regulations don’t reflect an industry with many small, local breweries instead of large national ones. We are looking to address some of those issues that are holding back our local businesses while still promoting responsible alcohol consumption.

You as a consumer/voter/constituent have the most powerful voice in helping us make that a reality. We need you to contact your state representatives and ask them to support our bills Senate Bill 2870 (S-2870) and Assembly Bill 3969 (A-3969). We’ve provided tools to help you find you representatives, supplied a template for a letter that you can adapt and given an overview of what the bills would accomplish. You can find it all here.

Tickets on Sale for 15th Annual Beer Festival

The 15th Annual Garden State Craft Brewers Guild Beer Festival will be taking place on Saturday, June 18th from 1-5pm. Tickets are $45 (must be 21 or older). Sample great craft beer, enjoy good food and hang out on the deck of the Battleship New Jersey!

Tickets are available now through TicketWeb!

Trap Rock Beer Dinners June 7 and 14

The last beer dinner at Trap Rock Restaurant & Brewery was so successful they are going to have another one, only bigger! To accommodate even more people than last time, the next beer dinner will be split into two, taking place on two separate Tuesdays. The setting of the dinner will also be returned to the Garden Room to allow more large groups to dine together and to allow everyone to hear the speakers better.

More details are available on their website.

Krogh’s to Host Homebrewing Event

Krogh’s Restaurant & Brew Pub at 23 White Deer Plaza in Sparta has announced a unique homebrewing event that they are hosting on Sunday, June 12 from noon – 3 pm! Join them as they host a live world-wide web “podcast” starting at noon and sponsored by Final Gravity Podcast. The topic of discussion will be “Getting Involved with Homebrewing”. There will be guest speakers, such as Chris McGrath of River Horse Brewing in Lambertville, NJ, along with homebrewing demonstrations and lectures by njhopz.com, Q&A time and a “Meet & Greet” with a brewer from their own brew pub! There will also be live music from 3:00 – 5:00 pm in the Pub area. If you are interested in homebrewing, this is a must-see event for you!

The Krogh’s Seasonal beer for June will be their long-awaited “Best of Show Beer” from the 2010 NJ State Fair Homebrewing Contest. It will be available on June 17th at 5:00 pm. The winner was Peter Kennedy and Peter got to brew his winning beer right at Krogh’s! It’s a Patersbier with a twist! This is a Belgian-style Ale, which represents the height of the brewer’s art with sophisticated brewing techniques, yeast blends and unique flavoring elements.

For questions, directions or reservations, please give Krogh’s a call at 973-729-8428.

Woodbridge Lite on Tap, Black Magic Schwarzbier on Deck at JJ Bitting

JJ Bitting Brewing Co. in Woodbridge has their deck open and in full swing. They just planted a bunch of hops up there as well, so look for some great harvest beers when they start producing. Their Woodbridge Lite is on tap now. It is a very sessionable light lager. Soon to come on tap is the Black Magic Schwarzbier and Biersrtasse Hefe.

See you guys at the Battleship!

High Point Blondes Out for the Summer

High Point Brewing Company, the specialist for wheat beers, is promoting their award winning Blonde Hefe-weizen and Double Platinum Blonde during the warm weather. The Office Beer Bar & Grill is one of the fine beer bars that will have their wheat beers on tap.

Their June Open House tour is on Saturday, June 11th. There will be one tour at 2 pm, as with all of their summer Open House tours.

High Point will be participating in the 15th Annual Garden State Craft Brewers Guild Beer Festival on Saturday, June 18th.

Flying Fish Exits 11 & 16 Make Brief Reappearance

Flying Fish Brewing Company is too busy keeping up with their regular styles this summer to try to sneak out a new Exit beer, but they have done the next best thing. Based on your votes, they have decided to rebrew one batch each of Exit 11 Hoppy Wheat and Exit 16 Wild Rice Double IPA for draft only. The beers will start shipping this week, so look for them on tap when you’re out and about.

Flying Fish is heading to one of the Garden State’s prime growing areas for Hammonton’s first Slow Food dinner. Four courses paired with four Flying Fish. Onion tartlet, grape tomato salad, local pork loin, Cape May Day Boat scallops, strawberry shortcake and more.

Flying Fish will be running tours every other Saturday this summer. For the most up to date information, check their calendar.

Guild Breweries Take Part in Philly Beer Week

Philly Beer Week is the largest beer celebration of its kind in America, featuring hundreds of festivals, dinners, tours, pub crawls, tastings and meet-the-brewer nights to area bars, restaurants and other locations throughout Greater Philadelphia. The event runs June 3-12.

View special event pages from Flying Fish and River Horse. Keep an eye out for other Guild members as well.

June Events

The Garden State Craft Brewers Guild website is continuously updated with new events. Check out the calendar to see what’s brewing in New Jersey this month.