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The Alementary Announces Their Closure
The Alementary Set to Close

This one hurts. They were an absolute favorite since we first got to visit. Basically being our first date (Amy and myself). We had even saved a bottle of their Figgy Pudding to be the push present for Amy when Scarlet was born. We came back then soon after with Scarlet, and got to watch the Bengals beat the Bills in the playoffs there.

So needless to say, despite being a nearly three hour drive – they were a favorite brewery for us that holds a lot of dear memories for us here at The Beer Thrillers.

So we are very deeply saddened to hear of their upcoming closure.

In Their Own Words

Their announcement says everything very succinctly, so I will post their Facebook announcement here:

Dearest Friends!

All experiments must come to an end. Otherwise there are no results, right? Over the weekend we’ve had to make the very difficult decision to close our operations. Our taproom will remain open as we manage our way through this process. See below for more info!

What happened?

It’s a long story best told over a beer, but here’s the TL;DR: we had an agreement with a buyer for our contract business and that deal fell through. That, plus continued softness in the distro market, a not great 4q2023, and downward regional industry trends has left us in an irreconcilable situation. Our biggest error was one of timing, and trusting.

We are proud of what we’ve done. This is not undertaken lightly. We’re proud of the space you’ve all helped us to create. We never expected to gain family, but here we are. And we’ll stand behind every drop of beer we made. Except for Project 18. That was just a nightmare.

The taproom will remain open the usual hours while we work through all this! To celebrate our 8-year run we are having a Pay The Lawyers special: $5 pints, $3 shorts, $25 lager and Random cases, $35 everything else. All bottles $10 so you can get your holiday shopping done real real early.

The Moral of the Story

No business lasts forever, and you just gotta be okay with that. We’re sad, but it’s not a weepy sad. Continue supporting your local breweries, and not just the hypey ones everybody thinks you have to like. Find unique spaces doing unique things and support them. As for us? We’ll see you on the flip side.
The Alementary is at The Alementary – Facebook Post

As you can see from the comments and response to their announcement, the brewery will be nearly missed by the Hackensack, and the greater New Jersey brewing community.

We wish the best to all involved and all of their future endeavors. We sincerely wish nothing but the absolute best for all involved, this was a piece of the community that will be sorely missed.

Thank you for all the memories!

After Scarlet Emma was born, our toast – with Figgy Pudding by The Alementary

More Alementary Articles
- Figgy Pudding Release 2023
- Holiday Beers and Bombers
For More Information on The Alementary

The following information comes from Untappd. The Alementary is a micro brewery from Hackensack, New Jersey. They have 307 unique beers and over 66,000 ratings with a global average rating of 3.79 (as of 1.29.24). Their Untappd description reads: Our mission is simple: Create approachable and uncomplicated world-class beers in a brewery experience that gives our friends and neighbors a brewery that they are proud to call their own.

You can follow them at these social media pages:
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January 29, 2024
Figgy Pudding Yearly Release – This Friday
Figgy Pudding Returns

Its that time again! A glorious barleywine loving time! This Friday – November 17th, 2023 – Figgy Pudding returns at The Alementary Brewery in Hackensack, New Jersey.

Figgy Pudding week is upon us! Our indomitable English barleywine is co-fermented with figs, prunes, apricots and dates before being aged for a year in the finest Jamaican rum barrels. The result is absolutely perfect for holiday parties and pairs delightfully with the foods of the season. As usual, this one is pretty limited since finding rum barrels of sufficient quality for this beauty is very challenging. The official release is Friday, 11/17. It isn’t required, but you can order your bottles in advance on our website if you’d prefer. We are also raising Blake and Mike’s personal stash for a re-release of the 2022 Figgy since you’ve all long since “accidentally” consumed them. Let’s get Figgy!

#digthefig #craftbeer #beer #alementary #njbeer #beerporn
The Alementary – Facebook Post

A Beer Thrillers Favorite

Figgy Pudding is one of our all time absolute favorite beers here at The Beer Thrillers – for many reasons. Firstly, its a wonderful and delicious beer, but secondly there’s a lot of sentimental reasons as well.

The Alementary was one of Amy and Ben’s first dates and we split a bottle of Figgy Pudding and spent nearly the entire evening at the brewery chatting and having a wonderful time together, getting to learn and grow and know each other.

We took a bottle to go, and kept it cellared, and after Amy got pregnant with Scarlet Emma, it ended up becoming her “push present”:

Scarlet Emma and Figgy Pudding

So we cracked it open there at the Harrisburg Hospital (don’t tell), and Amy got to enjoy her first few sips of beer in a very long time. (Don’t worry, I made sure the bottle didn’t go to waste. –Ben)

Our Instagram and Facebook post covered it:

Cheers to Scarlet Emma! We saved this bottle from our visit to @alementary and its aged just as long as she is (give or take a few months).

This is the one beer Amy waited and wanted her entire pregnancy, and she can now finally get a few sips of it.

Cheers Scarlet Emma! Can’t wait to take you home tomorrow!

#thealementary #thealementarybrewingcompany #thebeerthrillers #figgypudding #barleywine #aged #craftbeer #njbeer #baby #newbaby #pushbeer #pushgift #scarlet #scarletemma
The Beer Thrillers is in Harrisburg (Facebook Post)

The Alementary was so kind that they reached out to us and told us to stop by the brewery and they would gift us another bottle of Figgy Pudding, and so in January of this year we made the trek back out to Hackensack New Jersey and picked it up, getting to also watch the Bengals defeat the Bills in their playoff game at the brewery, and enjoy a nice beautiful snowy day in New Jersey – and it was Scarlet Emma’s first trip to the brewery as well!

We certainly know we’ll be coming back out to New Jersey soon to get this year’s vintage of Figgy Pudding and we cannot wait!

Cheers to Figgy Pudding, cheers to The Alementary, and cheers to all who get to try it. Its an extremely delicious beer!

See Also
- Holiday Weekend and Bomber Bottles
For More Information on The Alementary

The following information comes from Untappd. The Alementary is a micro brewery from Hackensack, New Jersey. They have 299 unique beers and over 66,000 ratings with a global average rating of 3.79 (as of 11.16.23). Their Untappd description reads: Our mission is simple: Create approachable and uncomplicated world-class beers in a brewery experience that gives our friends and neighbors a brewery that they are proud to call their own.

You can follow them at these social media pages:
Thank You For Reading

If you like this article, please check out our other many articles, including news, beer reviews, travelogues, maps, and much much more. We greatly appreciate everyone visiting the site!

Cheers.

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We are working on a massive project here at The Beer Thrillers. We are creating a map of all of the breweries across the United States. State by state we are adding maps of all of the different states with every brewery in each state. (We will eventually get to the US Territories, as well as the Canadian Provinces, and possibly more countries; as well as doing some fun maps like a map of all the breweries we’ve been to, and other fun maps.) You can find the brewery maps here:
- MAPS OF BREWERIES
We are also working on a project of creating printable and downloadable PDFs and resources to be able to check and keep track of all of the breweries you’ve been to. So stay tuned for that project once we are finished with the Brewery Maps of the US States.

You can check out our different directories here: Beer Reviews, Hike Reviews, Book Reviews, Brewery News, Brewery Openings, Brewer Interviews, and Travelogues.

Please be sure to follow us on our social media accounts – Facebook, Facebook Group, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Influence. As well as our brand new Tumblr page. Please be sure to also follow, like, subscribe to the blog here itself to keep updated. We love to hear from you guys, so be sure to leave a comment and let us know what you think!

You can now find us on our Discord Server here: The Beer Thrillers (Discord Server). We’ve also joined LinkTree to keep track of all of our social media pages, as well as hot new articles we’ve written.

The Beer Thrillers on LinkTree can be found here: The Beer Thrillers LinkTree.

We have partnered with an affiliateship with Beer Drop.com. You can check out that partnership and receive great discounts, coupons, and more here: Beer Drop. Going here and logging in and ordering will help you receive your discounts and coupons as well as help support our page. Thank you for helping to support The Beer Thrillers and to help us maintain the site and blog and to keep it running.

The Beer Thrillers are a blog that prides itself on writing beer reviews, brewery reviews, travelogues, news (especially local to the Central PA brewery scene), as well as covering other topics of our interests – such as hiking, literature and books, board games, and video games which we sometimes stream with our friends over at Knights of Nostalgia. We are currently listed as #7 on FeedSpot’s “Top 100 Beer Blogs” and #8 on FeedSpot’s “Top 40 Pennsylvania Blogs”. (As of January 2023.) Thank you for reading our site today, please subscribe, follow, and bookmark. Please reach out to us if you are interested in working together. If you would like to donate to the blog you can here: Donate to The Beer Thrillers. Thank you!

You can also check out our partnership and affiliation with Pretzels.com, where ordering pretzels and using our affiliate code – AFFILIATE CODE IS THEBEERTHRILLERS20 – will help you get wonderful pretzels and help us maintain and keep this blog running. Thank you!

If you would like to reach out to us for product reviews, beer reviews, press release writing, and other media – please contact us at thebeerthrillers@gmail.com. Thank you.

(Thank you for reading. The opinions, thoughts, and expressions of each article posted on The Beer Thrillers represents the author of the content and only themselves. It does not express the opinions, beliefs, or ideas held by The Beer Thrillers or any company in which the author themselves work for. Each piece of written content is written by the creator(s) listed in the authorial section on each article unless otherwise noted. Their opinions, comments, and words on screen do not represent any company in which they work for and / or are affiliated with or any non – profits that they contribute to. Thank you.)
November 16, 2023
Holiday Weekend and Bomber Bottles
Pastry Parkway – Cannoli (collaboration between Fourscore Beer Co. and Wolf Brewing Company)

Preparing for the Holiday Weekend

While mentally preparing for this long holiday weekend I stared at the collection of bomber bottles on top of my rolltop desk in my living room. It feels like they are taking up lots of space and I just simply must decrease the number of bottles on top of my desk. Holiday weekends are perfect for that.

Bomber Quiz

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Bombs Away

I decided to crack into the Captain Precious from Alementary. We picked up this one when we had to stop by since after having Scarlet. We loved celebrating her birth by toasting one of our favs from them, Figgy Pudding.

Figgy Pudding 2021 – Amy’s Push Present when Scarlet Emma was born (via our Instagram from 11.11.22)

When we posted on IG about her birth they graciously offered another bottle in celebration. Captain Precious was another bottle we had to get on the way out the door.

Captain Precocious by The Alementary

Captain Precious is a 12.5% Barleywine and the perfect way to kick off the holiday weekend and we paired it with some spicy tacos. It has an average rating on Untapped at 3.90 and that is way too low for this quality Barleywine. It is described on Untapped as “Marjie’s first beer! This Barleywine is made with peanut butter and heaps of fresh blueberries and fermented with Kveik yeast for a touch of overripe tropical fruit. “The perfect mix of some peanut butter and blueberries it was delicious. (You can view our reel from Facebook about adding it to the taco meat and enjoying the delicious barleywine here – The Beer Thrillers on Facebook, Reels.)

Pastry Parkway – Cannoli

We then finished off the night with a stout we bought way before we got pregnant, two of the Pastry Stouts from the Pastry Parkway line from Fourscore Beer Co in Gettysburg. All four pastry stouts come in with a 15% ABV. Two of the four we got were the cannoli and the s’mores Cupcake. The other two I wish I got my hands on were Blueberry Marshmallow Muffin and Chocolate Cherry Caramel Croissant. The Pastry Parkway was a collab with Wolf Brewering Company in Mechanicsburg, PA and Fourscore Beer Company in Gettysburg, PA.

Pastry Parkway – S’mores Cupcake

We started with the Cannoli Pastry Stout and we decided to pair it with some chocolate peanut butter cup Turkey Hill ice cream. It was a warm evening and I would be going for ice cream so we were lucky it was a delicious combo. Then, as I sat down to write this, we cracked open the S’more Cupcake Pastry Stout and stole Ben’s Zebra cakes to go with it.

I know feel accomplished getting a few things cleaned up around the house by decreasing the bomber stash. I can’t wait for the next holiday weekend! Happy Birthday America!

Some Explosive Good Beers

All of these – from the Figgy Pudding we had in honor of our child’s birth; to the Captain Precocious we had picked up at The Alementary (one of our favorite breweries), to the two Fourscore Beer Co and Wolf Brewing Company collabs (Pastry Parkway – Cannoli and Pastry Parkway – S’mores Cupcake) were “explosively good”. (See what I did there?)

So I have to ask you all again… how many bombers do you have sitting at home, cellaring in your basement, and waiting to be drank? (Don’t worry, despite polishing these off, we still have plenty more to go!)

Drink More Beer!

-Amy

Amy’s Column Series

Since getting back to writing for the blog after a short hiatus, Amy has started up a weekly column style writing for the blog. You can find these articles here:
- Brewfests with Anxiety (Amy’s original weekly column start)
- I’ve Missed Drinking (A Look at Non Alcoholic Beers)
- Beer and Pretzel Review: Legends and Lore (St. Boniface Brewing Company) and Garlic Parm Pretzels (Pretzels.com)
- Peanut Butter Eggs, Easter, Beer, and YAH Brew’s Shimmy Shake (Beer Review)
- Cox Brewing Company: Back to Their Roots
- Amy’s Day Off
- It Was All A Dream (A Visit to YAH Brewing)
- Just Another Weekend (A Hike at Saint Pete’s Trail and Hares Hill Brewing)
- I’m Pretty Darn Lucky (Happy Mother’s Day)
- Ready to Kick of the Summer
- Beer Review: Beer Devil IPA (Niagara Brewing Company)
- World MS Day
- Have you ever picked a beer based on the can art?
- Happy Father’s Day
- What is Your Summer Time Go To Beer?
- Holiday Weekend and Bomber Bottles
- You can find all of Amy’s articles here: Amy’s Archive of Articles.
Thank You For Reading

If you like this article, please check out our other many articles, including news, beer reviews, travelogues, maps, and much much more. We greatly appreciate everyone visiting the site!

Cheers.

-B. Kline

Thanks again for reading everyone. Take some time to check out the site, we greatly appreciate it. We have affiliates and sponsors with Pretzels.com and Beer Drop.com, which can save you money on their products if you are interested. Check out our articles on them. Make sure to check out our beer reviews, brewery reviews, Amy’s weekly column, book reviews, hike reviews, and so much more.

As always, thank you everyone for reading! Leave your likes, comments, suggestions, questions, etc, in the comments section. Or use the Feedback – Contact Us – page, and we’ll get right back to you! You can also reach out to us at our direct e-mail address: thebeerthrillers@gmail.com

Thank you for visiting our blog. Please make sure to follow, bookmark, subscribe, and make sure to comment and leave feedback and like the blog posts you read. It will help us to better tailor the blog to you, the readers, likes and make this a better blog for everyone.

We are working on a massive project here at The Beer Thrillers. We are creating a map of all of the breweries across the United States. State by state we are adding maps of all of the different states with every brewery in each state. (We will eventually get to the US Territories, as well as the Canadian Provinces, and possibly more countries; as well as doing some fun maps like a map of all the breweries we’ve been to, and other fun maps.) You can find the brewery maps here:
- MAPS OF BREWERIES
We are also working on a project of creating printable and downloadable PDFs and resources to be able to check and keep track of all of the breweries you’ve been to. So stay tuned for that project once we are finished with the Brewery Maps of the US States.

You can check out our different directories here: Beer Reviews, Hike Reviews, Book Reviews, Brewery News, Brewery Openings, Brewer Interviews, and Travelogues.

Please be sure to follow us on our social media accounts – Facebook, Facebook Group, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Influence. As well as our brand new Tumblr page. Please be sure to also follow, like, subscribe to the blog here itself to keep updated. We love to hear from you guys, so be sure to leave a comment and let us know what you think!

You can now find us on our Discord Server here: The Beer Thrillers (Discord Server). We’ve also joined LinkTree to keep track of all of our social media pages, as well as hot new articles we’ve written.

The Beer Thrillers on LinkTree can be found here: The Beer Thrillers LinkTree.

We have partnered with an affiliateship with Beer Drop.com. You can check out that partnership and receive great discounts, coupons, and more here: Beer Drop. Going here and logging in and ordering will help you receive your discounts and coupons as well as help support our page. Thank you for helping to support The Beer Thrillers and to help us maintain the site and blog and to keep it running.

The Beer Thrillers are a blog that prides itself on writing beer reviews, brewery reviews, travelogues, news (especially local to the Central PA brewery scene), as well as covering other topics of our interests – such as hiking, literature and books, board games, and video games which we sometimes stream with our friends over at Knights of Nostalgia. We are currently listed as #7 on FeedSpot’s “Top 100 Beer Blogs” and #8 on FeedSpot’s “Top 40 Pennsylvania Blogs”. (As of January 2023.) Thank you for reading our site today, please subscribe, follow, and bookmark. Please reach out to us if you are interested in working together. If you would like to donate to the blog you can here: Donate to The Beer Thrillers. Thank you!

You can also check out our partnership and affiliation with Pretzels.com, where ordering pretzels and using our affiliate code – AFFILIATE CODE IS THEBEERTHRILLERS20 – will help you get wonderful pretzels and help us maintain and keep this blog running. Thank you!

If you would like to reach out to us for product reviews, beer reviews, press release writing, and other media – please contact us at thebeerthrillers@gmail.com. Thank you.
July 2, 2023