The Referend 2nd Anniversary
The Referend is celebrating 2 years of openness December 1. Join us to celebrate with special drafts, casks, and bottles. Details to follow.
Special on-site casks & drafts, to include:
-A Novel of Thank You 2018
(a blend of 2018 vintage grape projects)
-Berliner Messe: Gloria Grand Cru
(aged six to twenty-seven months, dry-hopped several times)
-Cheap Songs I: The Cobbler
(refermented with NJ blueberries and peaches, conditioned on cinnamon & vanilla)
-The Recognitions
(a blend of young and old golden ales aged in cognac puncheons)
-The Song of the Earth - Black Trumpet
(1.5-year-old golden ale conditioned on local NJ black trumpet mushrooms)
-Jung-Absinthe
(young golden ale aged in a single absinthe barrel)
-Globe Theatre: Cabernet Franc 2017
(golden ale refermented with NJ Cab Franc grapes)
-Apricot Altar
(a blend of young and old golden ales refermented with local apricots)
Our favorite past bottlings, poured by the glass in the old tasting room (A Room with a View)
(This bar will be cash only, but tickets for bottle pours will be available at our other registers)
Complimentary complementary madeleines, baked for us by Lovin' Oven of Frenchtown, NJ
Six new 375ml bottlings, all built upon our spontaneously fermented golden base beer, available to-go:
-The Recognitions
(aged in cognac puncheons)
-de Daumier-Smith
(refermented with NJ blueberries & red-juiced peaches)
-Apricot Altar
(refermented with local apricots)
-Avond; de rode boom
(conditioned on local rhubarb)
-Le mur (rum)
(refermented with NJ blackberries in a rum barrel)
-Tender Is the Night
(refermented with NJ black raspberries)
In the event that you can't make it out on Saturday, we'll be pouring Berliner Messe mimosas (Mimesses?) alongside any festive remainders in Sunday's afterglow.