Chatham Beer Guide: Your Chatham guide to beer, beer bars, breweries and brewpubs

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66 /100 13 WATCHING AVE
“Have visited on 15.12.2023. Located close to Newark airport. Like the interior and atmosphere: flowers, light wooden benches. Beers are mediocre.“
Schlenkerla 175 days ago
76 /100 13 WATCHING AVE
“This would be an really solid local brewery. Only 6 beers on when I visited, but they were all really good. A little bit more upscale warehouse type setting -- very open with bench seating and a shared hightop. Cool place with good beer.“
blipp 2160 days ago
80 /100 13 WATCHING AVE
“Visited the Saturday after Thanksgiving as it is close to the in-laws. Close to 24, which is a plus. Warehouse style building. Inside they have the walls painted dark, with lots of wood and a big logo covered wooden wall. Good crowd for the area and the time of day, but that might have to do with this particular weekend. Got significantly more crowded as we passed 4:00 as well. Not as much seating as there could be considering the space. There’s a shareable high table in the middle, some wall seating around the outside, and a couple of booths as well. 6 beers on my visit. Looks like it would have been 7, but one was off. Free cold brew. Flights, flight sized pours, half pints, and pints available of all the beers. Same price for everything. Growlers to go. Fun spot, will have to revisit on future trips to the area, which I make fairly often. “
ben4321 2750 days ago
70 /100 13 WATCHING AVE
“Very welcoming feel, lots of wood, lots of locals. Plenty of seating, even if most of it was in use when I came in on a Saturday afternoon in mid November. You have to take a tour before you can drink, but as construction was going in, that consisted of peering into the brewhouse. Small 2 barrel system, six beers on, 4/8/16oz pours available. All decent enough, nothing that blew me away though. Worth a quick stop if you’re nearby.“
j12601 2757 days ago
84 /100 13 WATCHING AVE
“I attended this new brewery opening on 5/7/16. I was fortunate to have visited prior to that because the owners are friends with our homebrew club (MASH) and were kind enough to allow us to have a meeting there the week before their opening. The husband and wife that run the place are great and I have no doubt their hard work will payoff and they’ll do well. It’s nice to have another brewery open in north Jersey...most seem to be opening in south or central Jersey (as well as the 3 open or opening out west in the Hackettstown area). The taproom is absolutely beautiful...not only the woodwork...but the level of detail and construction is impressive. They opened with 6 beers and all were good...and some a little stronger than the others. Not a bad number of beers to open with (I’ve been to openings with only 3-4). From talking to the owners and members of our homebrew club...we all feel confident the beers will only continue to get better...ex. I was not overly impressed with the Magnify beers when they opened this time last year...all were good but none great...well within 6 months they were making great beers and are now making some exceptional ones...I have every reason to believe Twin Elephant will follow the same trajectory as they are very capable and knowledgeable brewers. My favorites were Shimmy Ye IPA (Citra, Simcoe, Centennial), Juicy Busey (hoppy saison), and Can I Kick It (red ale with Amarillo & Columbus). I highly recommend a visit here and I look forward to watching them grow and prosper. Hint...if your wife is not a craftbeer fan...drop her off at the nearby Short Hills Mall and wait for her here (will help to take away some of the sting of the credit card bill...lol!).“
PRBeer 2944 days ago
78 /100 13 WATCHING AVE
“Brand new brewery with an old farm lodge feel. Nano but nice sized taproom. Beers are quite good especially for opening weekend. Similar to Conclave. Service is excellent. You have to go through the tour before going into the taproom per the state regulations. Prices are a bit high though compared to breweries. I know some people have had problem with the wait times and said the beers had carbonation issues. Maybe, I just hit them on a good day because I didn’t have those problems.“
jtclockwork 2952 days ago
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