A new way to bike to the new Flounder Brewing site

Flounder Brewery moved into a renovated old farmhouse last year (still in Hillsborough) and now has lots of indoor and outdoor seating. We biked once from Duke Farm and then via roads to the D&R Canal towpath at the Griggstown Causeway.

But what would it be like to bike almost all the way using the canal towpath? Time to find out with this route.

No surprise, the canal towpath was lovely. We could chat, there was shade, it wasn’t too busy…

Plus it was the one Sunday a year that Canal Road (the alternative for those who don’t like trails) is closed to traffic from Rocky Hill (County Road 518) to the Griggstown Causeway. And look who was riding on the road — General Washington and three others!

Time travel back to 1781, and he is on his way to Yorktown. The British think he’s going to attack New York City, as he explained to us …

And then we got to Amwell Road. The moment of truth, or rather the 2 1/2 miles of truth.

For a Sunday morning, Amwell Road was pretty busy. Traffic moves fast. The good part is that there’s a shoulder pretty much the entire way.

It’s also uphill. And for some reason, planners allowed a left turn into the Carriage House while you’re going uphill on an overpass. Poor sight lines. (On the way back, it’s downhill and no left turn, yay.)

So not for everyone.

And what “weird beer” did we find?

I went for the blueberry and lemon sour with the weird name of Watson’s Next Hair Color. Ruby-colored. Suited me.

Gin-n-Tonic IPA #1 apparently didn’t have enough of a juniper and tonic taste to suit the brewer, hence the #1. Watch for another try.

We didn’t try the Embers of Druids Past, but it deserves a mention for its weird name, its category (Gruit, an ancient herbed ale, a new one to us) and the description: “our brewers smoked a small portion of the malt with black walnut. Adding a hint of smoke to complement the herbs (sweet gale, yarrow, rosemary)”. O-kay…

Like all Jersey breweries, they can’t sell food. But food trucks are allowed. And one was there.

Here’s another beer ride: A milkshake latte IPA? Another bike ride for ‘weird beer’

And: A bike ride to River Horse Brewing