BREAKING: Tonewood Has Arrived in Philly

A few years back, I drank my first Tonewood Brewing Fuego IPA at the legendary but now closed, Irish Mile. It was love at first taste with Tonewood Brewing, which is located in Oaklyn, NJ. The problem was that it was not available in Philly.

Aside from Yards, Tonewood is my favorite brewery right now. Everything they do is pretty much spectacular. Finding Tonewood in Philly has been harder than finding a mail carrier before noon these days. Royal Izakaya has had it on draft lately at a whopping $9 a pint. I almost couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw this on Instagram:

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Yo Philly! We all know how you feel about crossing the river into jersey and we get it. Traffic circles, make a right to make a left….. it just doesn’t make sense . So TODAY we’re crossing the river and coming to you. Fuego CANS! Will be a available today @bottlebareast , @local44westphilly and @bellavistabeverage . Swing buy and grab what is the first packaged Tonewood beer to make it out of Jersey . Next week be on the lookout throughout Philadelphia, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Bucks counties at your better beer shops for the chance to grab a 6er or two . Stoked to take yet another step forward in the life of our little Jersey brewery. Cheers!

A post shared by Tonewood Brewing (@tonewoodbrewing) on Feb 12, 2019 at 6:29am PST

I ran over to Bella Vista Beverage yesterday afternoon to see if it was true. I searched the New Jersey beer aisle and there was nothing. Nada. Zilch. Could they have been sold out already? I walked to the counter to ask about it. THERE IT WAS. In all of its canned glory.

$13.49 is a total steal since I regularly paid $5 to get over the bridge and grab a six-pack of it.

If you have time this week, run to Bottle Bar East, Local 44 West Philly, and Bella Vista Beverage to grab them before they go.

A full Philly roll-out is expected next week. Beers in Philly just got even better, like that was even possible.

Beer…MMmmmmmm.