Celebrate the Suds

Joe Canal's in Lawrenceville and Woodbridge stocks New Jersey's best collection of craft beers. From the highly allocated to the widely distributed, we take pride in our offerings, which we back up with an extremely knowledgeable staff. Whether it's bottles, cans or Growlers, Joe Canal's can't be beat for selection, price, and customer service.

From time to time, we'll draw your attention to beer festivals that are within a reasonable distance of our stores. After all, if you sample something at a festival that you like, we think it's important that you be able to find that brew at one (or both) of our stores.

You'll have to cross the border into Pennsylvania for this first event, which is happening this weekend. The Great Allentown Brew Works Cask Festival will include some of our favorites, like Fegley's, Flying Fish, Neshaminy Creek, and Weyerbacher. You'll be able to sample from nearly three dozen craft and/or cask creations.

On the first weekend of April, beer lovers will have the opportunity to Do AC, with the Atlantic City Beer and Music Festival. This year is the 9th anniversary of the festival, which hosts three separate four-hour sessions.

About four dozen different sponsors (food and products) will participate, along with well over 100 breweries. Local favorites like Clown Shoes, River Horse and Sly Fox are scheduled to participate, along with national-level breweries like Abita, Anchor, and Kona. The international brewing community is represented by Harp, St. Bernardus and Unibroue, among so many others.

Closer to home, and by that we mean "in our stores", we have our weekly specialty Growler tappings, as well as some additional tastings. We do a specialty tapping at 5pm every Friday in Lawrenceville, and 6pm every Friday in Woodbridge. For the month of March, our featured brewery at both stores is the DuClaw Brewing Company.

In Lawrenceville, we'll have a tasting of Shiner Ruby Redbird and White Wing on Thursday, March 27, from 6-8pm. We'll offer the same tasting in our Woodbridge store on Thursday, April 3, also from 6-8pm. And on Saturday, April 5, there will be a tasting of Miller Fortune at our Woodbridge store, from 5-6:30pm.

At Joe Canal's, we remain your beer, wine and spirits Superstore.