Six Princeton Local Summer Drinks to Try this August

August 01, 2020 By Rachel Fullan

Six Local Summer Drinks to Try this August

With the summer months heating up, we’ve discovered 6 alcoholic drinks made locally that we’re sipping on this August.

 

Mistral

66 Witherspoon St, Princeton

(609) 688-8808 | mistralprinceton.com

 

Mistral has a variety of cocktails to go, as well as beers, wines & seltzers.

“Thaw of Quarantine” is a bourbon based drink with lemon, maple, jalapeno, luxardo maraschino & bitters ($18/16oz. bottle). “Blue Mai Mind” includes white rum, blueberry orgeat, dark rum, lim and clove bitters ($18/16oz. bottle).

The restaurant is also carrying Crook & Marker Hard Selzers (from Hamilton NJ) 4 (11.5oz) bottles for $8.

Mistral currently has outdoor dining (M-Th 5PM-9PM; Fri-Sat 4PM-10PM; Sun 11AM-3 & 4PM-9PM). They also have a To-Go menu for take out.

 

Brick Farm Tavern

65 E Broad St, Hopewell

(609) 466-6500 | brickfarmmarket.com

Brick Farm Tavern has created 5 varieties of cocktail pouches, all featuring a different base alcohol, different fruit syrups, citrus & mixing alcohols. There are two drink servings per pouch — perfect to enjoy either outside on Brick Farm’s back patio or bring home to enjoy poolside or on your own back porch. The tavern has sold 1500+ pouches in the past few months.

The two most popular pouches they’re selling:

“The Gritty Punch” made with tequila and fresh tangerine, lime, apparel and peychaud bitters and “Jabroni Juice” crafted with vanilla vodka, New Jersey strawberry, banana, pineapple liquers and lemon with some bitter.

Developed by Brick Farm Tavern’s beverage director/GM Patrick Amice, the pouches do contain two drinks and sell for $18. Available for anyone seated at the restaurant, for takeout or at the outside bar.

 

The Alchemist & Barrister

28 Witherspoon Street, Princeton

(609) 924-5555 | theaandb.com

Head over the the A&B for some summery drinks on their menu, including: Rico-Rita (tequila, watermelon-cucumber-lemon infusion, with triple sec & lime), Jalapeño Lime Margarita (infused jalapeno-lime tequila, triple sec, fresh lime juice) and the Prosecco Breeze (with rum, pineapple & cranberry juices and prosecco), to name a few. The restaurant is open Monday through Saturday from 11:30AM-2:30AM and on Sunday from 10AM-2AM, with outdoor seating only available.

 

River Horse Brewing Company

2 Graphics Drive, Ewing

(609) 883-0890 | https://www.riverhorse.com

Located in Ewing NJ and supplying local beer lovers with delicious beers for every occasion, River Horse isn’t disappointing this summer. The brew house has four summer seasonal beers on their list including: Summer Blonde, Goin’ Down the Short Session Sour, Wuddermelon Kolsch Ale and a Mango Hard Selzer. All four will be available in a variety pack too!

 

The Referend Bier Blendery

1595 Reed Rd #2, Pennington

(609) 474-0443 | https://www.thereferend.com/

The Referend’s new beer “The New Life” was made in collaboration with Tonewood Brewing (Oaklyn). It’s a pale wheat ale (brewed with NJ raw & malted wheat) with balanced acidity and happiness, composed of a blend of Tonewood Freshies and two of their dry-hopped wild beers, naturally referemented for carbonation in the can with New Jersey wildflower honey.

The brewery is donating $4/can to charity, and Tonewood has announced that they are matching that — so the contribution exceeds the the purchase price!  You can grab it in the Blendery’s webshop for curbside pickup. It’s $22/4pack (16oz cans).

 

Terhune Orchards

330 Cold Soil Rd, Princeton

(609) 924-2310 | terhuneorchards.com

Terhune’s Winery is open Friday, Saturday & Sunday from 12PM-5PM, with bottles available 7 days a week in the farm store.

They are currently serving slushies, like peach-blueberry or apple cider. You can even whip up some of your own apple sangria, from the farm’s special recipe, listed below.

Apple Red Sangria

Cool off with this delicious recipe for a red sangria featuring Terhune Orchards’ Chambourcin wine and their own apples.

 

Ingredients:

 

1 (750 ml.) Bottle Terhune Orchards Chambourcin

1 crisp Terhune apple

1 lemon (sliced)

1 Navel orange (sliced)

1/4 cup orange juice

1 1/2 cup Seltzer

1/3 cup sugar

Directions:

 

Pour wine into pitcher or glass serving container. Stir in sugar until it dissolves. Add orange juice and stir.

Slice orange and lemon into thin rounds and then quarters. Discard ends. Slice apples into bite size pieces (removing the core).

Chill 2 hours.

Add seltzer just before serving.

 

What local drinks are you sipping on this summer?

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