STOSH’S

Opening Alert: Stosh's, Fair Lawn, NJ – Boozy Burbs

FAIR LAWN, NEW JERSEY

An inconspicuous hole in the wall serving the finest craft beer plus pizza and cocktails, cozy Fair Lawn, New Jersey tavern, STOSH’S, retains a friendly neighborhood atmosphere. A colorful hop design at the front door welcomes patrons to the blue collar establishment.

Stosh’s U-shaped wood lacquer-topped bar features fourteen tap handles plus top shelf liquor. Its bronze tin ceiling adds a cool prohibition feel to the one-room pub. There are several TV’s along the red brick walls and a few 2-seat tables plus a pinball machine at the diminutive hotspot.

As for the beers, Stosh’s takes pride serving mostly local microbrews. On my initial March ’24 trip after scoring at Paterson dispensary, Rise, my wife and I downed Wayne-based Seven Tribesman’s Chieftain Witbier and Clifton-based Ghost Hawk’s Sentience West Coast-styled pale ale (both reviewed in Beer Index).

CUSHWA RAMBO WITH VANILLA IMPERIAL MILK STOUT

Luxuriously rich milk stout with cascading brown head settling to a healthy mocha froth. Three vanilla bean variants add luscious sweetness and vanilla extract bittering to fudgy chocolate insistence above treacly wheat-honeyed molasses oats. Entrenched vanilla creaming soon gains chocolate bourbon cake, hazelnut coffee, French vanilla cappuccino and frosty buttercream illusions.

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