Bloomfield Brewery Rolls Out Cheesecake-Inspired Beer

BLOOMFIELD, NJ — When two local businesses team up, all sorts of “delicious” ideas can sprout. And in Bloomfield, a new partnership has resulted in a unique flavor of beer.

Bloomfield’s first microbrewery, Varitage Brew Works, recently partnered with Anthony's Cheesecake & Restaurant on “Washington St. Style Cheesecake,” a new beer that rolled out this week at the Varitage taproom at 58 Washington Street.

Here’s how Varitage describes their new raspberry cheesecake-inspired stout, which hits an ABV of 8.1 percent:

“A unique malt beverage crafted with natural flavors and conditioned on raspberry highlighting the craft of both Varitage and Anthony’s Cheesecake. Upon first sip, you are smacked in the mouth by raspberry. As it warms up, flavors of chocolate, graham cracker and cream dance off your tongue. There may be a bite at first thanks to the raspberry, but this beer has a nice creamy finish.”

“It felt like an eternity waiting on this special beer to come to life, but now the wait is over,” the brewery’s owners wrote in an email newsletter on Friday.

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