Flying Fish Brewing

Flying Fish Brewing Company
Founded 1995
Headquarters Somerdale, New Jersey, United States
Production output
 ~30,000 U.S. barrels[1]
Website flyingfish.com

Flying Fish Brewing Company is a craft brewery based in Somerdale, New Jersey. Founded in 1995 in Cherry Hill, it moved to its Somerdale location in 2012. It is today the largest brewery in New Jersey.

History

Flying Fish was established in 1995 as the world’s first virtual microbrewery, something novel that drew a lot of attention. Capitalizing on this early notoriety, founder Gene Muller took Flying Fish into brick and mortar, constructing the first microbrewery in South Jersey. While New Jersey once boasted more than 50 breweries, Flying Fish was the first new brewery built in Southern New Jersey in more than half a century.

Business grew, and Flying Fish now produces a range of beers year-round, along with a variety of seasonal specialties. Flying Fish beers are ten-time medal winners at the Great American Beer Festival, the most of any New Jersey brewery. Success meant expansion, and in 2012, Flying Fish moved from Cherry Hill to its new facility in Somerdale, making it the largest brewery built in the state since prohibition.

The tasting room at Somerdale now offers weekly one-off and barrel aged beers. This facility also boasts many sustainability features to brew the award-winning beer in the most environmentally friendly way possible. Flying Fish is also known for its ties to the community: each year, the company donates more than $100,000 in goods, services and merchandise to local nonprofit causes.

Products

Regular seasonals are the Oktoberfish, Farmhouse Summer Ale, and Grand Cru Winter Reserve. The latter two are bottle-conditioned. Less available (often only in growlers at the brewery) are Big Fish Barleywine, a Coffee Porter, Love Fish (a cherry-infused Belgian Abbey Dubbel available around Valentine's Day), Black Fish, and Imperial Espresso Porter. In January 2012, Flying Fish added Red Fish, a hoppy red ale, to its lineup.[2]

In the summer of 2004, Flying Fish produced a blueberry flavored Abbey Dubbel available only in 1/6 kegs to recipients of the brewery's mailing list.

First in the region to be featured at the Great British Beer Festival, Flying Fish has also been featured at the Oregon Brewers Festival and Canada's Biere de Mondial Festival and has also won several medals at both the Real Ale Festival in Chicago and the World Beer Championships.

Exit series

In 2009, Flying Fish began releasing a series of beers named after New Jersey Turnpike exits, each in styles intended to represent the part of the state served by that exit. New beers in the series are released at variable intervals, usually several months apart, with an extended hiatus as Flying Fish moved into their new facility in 2012. The inaugural release in the series honored the brewery's home exit, Exit 4, in March 2009.[3] The exit series has generated some controversy, as the NJ chapter of MADD has criticized the association of driving and alcohol.[4]

Exit Series releases
Exit Name Release date
Exit 4 American Trippel March 2009
Exit 11 Hoppy American Wheat July 2009
Exit 1 Bayshore Oyster Stout October 2009[5]
Exit 16 Wild Rice Double IPA March 2010[6]
Exit 6 Wallonian Rye June 2010[7]
Exit 13 Chocolate Stout December 2010[8]
Exit 9 Hoppy Scarlet Ale March 2011[9]
Exit 8 Chestnut Brown Ale February 2012[2]
Exit 3 Blueberry Braggot February 2015[10]
Exit 15 Coffee IPA October 2015[11]
Exit 18 Baltic Porter February 2016[12]
Exit 5 Pinelands Sour Forage Ale September 2016[13]
Exit 7 Pork Roll Porter September 2016[13]
Exit 14 Imperial Pilsner September 2016[13]
Exit 2 Rosemary Double IPA February 2017[14]
Exit 12 Maibock May 2017[15]

References

  1. ↑ "The New Flying Fish Brewery Open For Business". Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  2. 1 2 http://beernews.com/2012/01/flying-fish-red-fish-hoppy-red-ale-debuts-this-month/
  3. ↑ http://www.exitseries.com/
  4. ↑ Geoff Mulvihill (July 10, 2009). "NJ brewery draws ire for naming beers after exits". Retrieved 2009-10-23.
  5. ↑ "Flying Fish Accounces Exit 1 - The Barley Blog". 16 October 2009. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  6. ↑ "Flying Fish Exit 16 Wild Rice Double IPA arrives in March". 13 February 2010. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  7. ↑ "Flying Fish Exit 6 Wallonian Rye to be released in early June". 6 May 2010. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  8. ↑ "Flying Fish Exit 13 Chocolate Stout arrives next month". 4 November 2010. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  9. ↑ "Flying Fish Exit 9 Hoppy Scarlet Ale due out in early March". 6 February 2011. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  10. ↑ "Blueberry Braggot - Flying Fish Brewing Co". Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  11. ↑ "Exit 15 Release Friday October 9th - Flying Fish Brewing Co". 7 October 2015. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  12. ↑ Klein, Michael (2016-02-08). "Flying Fish debuts a Baltic porter, Exit 18". Philly.com. Philadelphia Media Network, PBC. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
  13. 1 2 3 "Pork roll beer: Exclusive look at Flying Fish's meaty new brew". Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  14. ↑ "Exit 2 Rosemary Double IPA - Flying Fish Brewing Co". Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  15. ↑ "Exit 12 Maibock - Flying Fish Brewing Co". Retrieved 11 July 2018.

Coordinates: 39°54′44″N 74°58′09″W / 39.9121°N 74.9693°W / 39.9121; -74.9693

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