There’s a really nice balance to the tartness of the fruit from the “heaps of NJ honey” added to the beer. Cranberries are a great fruit to add into beer, particularly a wheat beer. This is the first beer from Hidden Sands I’ve had the pleasure of enjoying and it was a dandy.

Although the Herd is more known for hop-bombs and stouts, this beer shows their skill at the art of the Saison quite well.Ĭranberry Wheat (Hidden Sands Brewing Company) | Wheat Beer – American Pale Wheat | 4.25 Bottle Caps on untappd I settled on this hefty (7.2%) Saison which was very earthy with a nice fruity balance. I wasn’t sure what I wanted because the taplist had quite a few appealing beers. I was in the area of Twin Elephant so I made a long overdue stop at the brewery in Chatham. Mad Love (Twin Elephant Brewing) | Farmhouse Ale – Saison | 4 Bottle Caps on untappd No IPAs this time around, just one lager, but a fruitful assortment of beers, if you well.

Just one non-NJ beer this month, but it was a milestone beer for me, at least on untappd. I also happened to visit a few different breweries in NJ this past month, and one in Massachusetts as I documented a couple of weeks ago. That will often bring even more new beers to me and July 2022 was no different. We hope you don’t grow too weary of the alcohol alliterative names we use…Īs readers of this blog know, July is a big beer month thanks to the annual family party on the Fourth of July.

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