Happy New Year Corner

We'd like to wish you a Happy & Healthy New Year, from everyone on the team at Joe Canal's in Lawrenceville and Woodbridge. We work hard to make sure that you have a great place to shop for the best, freshest craft beer, and we appreciate seeing so many familiar faces stopping in every week.

While we have no brand-new craft beer deliveries this week, we do have plenty to discuss. First on the agenda is New Year's Eve. We know that you might enjoy some sparkling wine this Saturday night. Click here for a basic outline of sparkling wine types and a few staff suggestions. With all the college football bowl games coming up, we also suspect there will be pizza on many tables in the coming week. Click here for craft beer and wine pizza pairing suggestions.

Statistics show us that roughly 1000 people visit this blog every Friday, and we're glad that you do. We'd like to crowdsource some additional suggestions. Please use the Comment section below to let us know what your favorite craft beers were in 2016. We know that some of the allocated items aren't currently available, but maybe you can help someone find a new favorite from the year-round portfolio of Ballast Point, Lagunitas, River Horse, Stone, Weyerbacher, or any one of our other fine craft brewers.

Our distributors and the local brewers who self-distribute will continue to surprise us, so please ask a member of the beer team if you're looking for something that we might have to hide in the back. We hear that the Maine Beer Company might be a little more aggressive about deliveries in 2017, so we're hopeful on that.

Thank you for continuing to read our blog, and thank you for shopping with us at Joe Canal's in Lawrenceville and Woodbridge.