Another reason to bicycle in Mercer County.
Guess which is my beer: the pint of Mr. Pig Pils or the 5-ounce blueberry one?
Continue reading “A bike ride to a gorgeous farm brewery in Pennington, NJ”We relied on the D&R Canal towpath for most of our bike ride to Ashton Brewing in Middlesex Borough.
I’m nominating Ashton Brewing in Middlesex Borough as the place to find some really weird — as in unusual, in the nicest way — beers.
Continue reading “Yes, I tried a peanut butter beer on this bike ride”Old Hights brewery is just off Main Street in Hightstown, N.J.
We heard about a new micro (nano?) brewery not far away… so we had another destination for a bike ride.
Old Hights Brewing Co. is just off Main Street in Hightstown. So after a 36-mile ride into the Sourlands and a bit of chilling at home the other weekend, we found the energy for a fast-paced 7.5 miles to pick up a four-pack.
Here’s what we learned:
Continue reading “We bike to yet another New Jersey brewery… and there is socially distanced outdoor seating”We found beer made using spontaneous fermentation and the technique of the ancients. And then (modern) ice cream.
Last month’s bike ride to Screamin’ Hill sparked a discussion of other area breweries — places I, as someone who doesn’t love beer, hadn’t heard of. But, hey, they make good bike-ride destinations. And the one four of us cycled to on Sunday definitely is out of the ordinary.
You see, the Referend Bier Blendery in Pennington (or perhaps it’s really Hopewell Township) believes in using the bacteria in the air for spontaneous fermentation. I’m not going to claim I understood everything about this approach, which goes back to the ancients and has at its core “as little interference as possible” in the process. But even I know that using a truck parked outside to house “The Coolship” is out of the ordinary.
Continue reading “A bike ride to even weirder beer in New Jersey”
Exploring by bicycle 