Beer Club - This week's entry by Double Nickel Brewing Company
I visited Double Nickel brewery in Pennsauken, NJ last year, less than a month after it had opened. It is a large facility tucked between twisting highway ramps and hills. It had the feel of a startup with places to go. We (my brother & I) had a personal tour with the brew-master, and he ended up pouring our flight. I remember the guy saying we could bring in our own food (though he did have some bar nuts or pretzels on hand). A nice touch either way. The tasting room is chrome-covered and huge, with a nice L-shaped bar backed by windows looking onto the brew floor, tables and chairs all around plus a balcony with additional seating above it all. Double Nickel was named (if I recall his story correctly) for the amount of the former toll to cross the nearby bridge. A little Googling confirms that recollection: The Tacony-Palmyra drawbridge (as well as the Burlington-Bristol Bridge upstream) once had a nickel toll. Truckers, especially, liked the bridge because its toll
