Eight & Sand Beer Co. to close, site to reopen as Freckled Jawn

Eight & Sand Beer Co. will pour its final beer at 1003 N Evergreen Ave. in Woodbury on June 28, then temporarily shut down while the same brewery footprint is refreshed and reopened later this summer as Freckled Jawn.

Founded in 2016 by Dominic Mazzone, Chris Burke and Chris Mazzone, Eight & Sand tied its identity to the old railroad expression “Eight and Sand,” a wish for a quick and safe journey. The phrase refers to “Notch-8,” the fastest setting on some trains, and to the sand used on tracks to keep wheels from slipping. That choice fit the site, which sits a few buildings from old train lines that once carried malted barley to the Camden County Beverage Co., where “Camden Beer” was made until the 1960s.

Inside, Eight & Sand operated as a full-production brewery and tasting room with 20 taps, a visible brewhouse and a 40-foot bar. The brewery leaned into lower-alcohol, highly drinkable beers with European roots and modern American ingredients, and it built in uncommon green features, including a 26-kW solar array that produces about 35,000 kilowatt-hours of clean electricity a year. It also sent spent grain to local farmers instead of the landfill. In 2016, the brewery won a Great American Beer Festival silver medal for its chili beer, “Bad Hombre.”

Freckled Jawn Brewing LLC was filed in New Jersey on November 20, 2025, and the new ownership team, John and Colleen, has a contract to buy the Eight & Sand property and building, plus a small lot behind it.