Twin Lights Microbrewery Opens This Friday In Tinton Falls

TINTON FALLS, NJ — Yet another microbrewery is opening in the Middletown area:

Twin Lights Brewery opens this week in Tinton Falls Centre. They had their soft opening Wednesday night and their tasting room officially opens to the public at 2:30 p.m. this Friday, September 2, according to their Facebook page.

They will have live music Friday from 6:30-10:30 p.m. This weekend they will be open from Friday, Sept. 2 through Sunday, Sept. 4. They will be closed Labor Day Monday. Going forward, their hours are: Closed Monday-Wednesday, Thursday 3:30 - 10 p.m., Friday 3:30 to 11 p.m., Saturday 12 noon - 11 p.m. and Sunday 11:30 to 9 p.m.

Twin Lights Brewery is located at 4057 Asbury Avenue in Tinton Falls, in the space formerly occupied by Jughandle Brewing Company, according to the Asbury Park Press. (Jughandle moved to Rt. 33 in Tinton Falls.)

“We’ve been looking for a home like this, really, since we got started in 2016,” co-owner Will Grundmann told the APP. “We tried to go into Highlands, we’re from that area, we’re named after the lighthouse in Highlands. We tried finding a property out in Highlands — unfortunately it just wasn’t in the cards for us.”

Monmouth County and all of New Jersey is seeing a microbrewery explosion in the past few years, but it's worth reading this article about the new microbrewery regulations handed down from the state of New Jersey this July, which brewery owners say will drive them out of business: https://reason.com/2022/07/23/...

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