It’s been nearly a year since Flying Fish has produced a new Exit beer. If you remember Exit 9, Hoppy Scarlet Ale, was released close to this time last year. Exit 8, Chestnut Brown Ale, should be ready for an early March launch.

Here is the description: Straight from Flying Fish

Jose Garces, Bill Covaleski of Victory Brewing Co. and wine author and Daily News columnist, Marnie Old, The Bent Spoon, Birchrun Hills Farm, Bobolink Dairy, Choptank Oyster Company, Doe Run Dairy, Farm Fromage, Fork Restaurant, John & Kira’s, North Mountain Pastures, Suburashi Kudumono, and Zone 7.

Brewers Plate participants include:

 Bar Ferdinand, Boxcar Brewing, Brauhaus Schmidt, Cabinet Artisanal Brewhouse, Capogiro Gelato, Dogfish Head Craft, Khyber Pass Pub, Pasta Strada, Tria, White Dog Café and Yards Brewing Company to name just a few.

 Advance general admission tickets are $65 per person [$75 after February 10] and VIP tickets are $125. VIP tickets admit access to exclusive star-studded demos and interactive tastings focusing on cooking with beer. 

Tickets are available at

www.fairfoodphilly.org   

with all proceeds supporting Greater Philadelphia’s farmers, Chefs, craft brewers and artisanal producers through Fair Food and its innovative programs.

About Fair Food

Founded in 2001 by Philadelphia entrepreneur Judy Wicks, Fair Food brings locally grown food to the marketplace. Through uniting local farmers with businesses and consumers, supporting the importance of family farms and creating a year-round marketplace for fresh, local and humane food products, Fair Food is promoting a humane, sustainable agriculture system for the Greater Philadelphia region.

This is just an overview of the notes that I took.

Big thanks to Hunter!!!

Enjoy!

1. SBC Gold Munich Helles
App: Straw/Gold with a slight white head
Aroma: Grainy, sweet malts, slight earthy hop
Flavor: Malty sweet, Slight earth/grassy hop bitterness, grainy
Body: light-medium
Finish: Dry & Clean

1a. Humbodlt Fog Cheese
Ripened Goat Cheese
USA, CA
Flakey, tart, lemony, slight saltiness
Breaks up the mildness of the beer

2. Pilsner Urquell Bohemian Pilsner (without flaws)
App: Straw/Gold with a slight white head
Aroma: Rich malty sweetness, floral hop, slight butterscotch
Flavor:Rich maltiness, spicy hop, slight bitterness
Body: Medium
Finish: Crisp and Clean

2a. Ossau Iraty Cheese
Sheep Cheese
France
High in fat, richer, oily
Almond, grassy aroma
mild nuttiness
fat cuts slight bitterness

3. Sapten Optimator German Dopplebock
App: Brown/Amber/Ruby with a tan head
Aroma: Malty Sweetness, Pear, Plum, Chocolate
Flavor: Chocolate, Fruity, Caramel, Malty Sweetnss, slight alcohol warming
Body: Medium
Finish: Sweet and smooth

3a. Comte Cheese
Raw Cow
France
warm feeling
Buttery toast, sweet cream, comfort food flavor, nuttiness
complimented the flavors of the beer well

4. Fullers ESB English ESB
App: Copper with a tan head
Aroma: Clean malts, bready slight hop, caramel
Flavor: Bitter hop citrus, caramel, earthy
Body: Medium
Finish: Dry Sweetness

4a. Mature Montgomery Cheddar
Raw Cow
England
nutty,earthy, fruity
both compares and contrasts with the flavors in the beer

5. Sierra Nevada Pale Ale  American Pale Ale
App: Gold with a white head
Aroma: Grapefruit/Pine, Slight bready sweetness
Flavor: Grapefruit/Pine, Malty, slight breadiness
Body: Medium
Finish: Long

5a. Pantaleo Cheese
Aged Goat
Italy
Salty sweet, Olives, Lemon, Nuttiness, pistachio
complimented the pine/grapefruit spiciness of the beer

6. Guiness Froeign Extra Stout  Foreign Extra Stout
App: Dark Brown/Black with a tan head
Aroma: Milky Sweet, Roasted Malts,Chocolate
Flavor: Fruity, Roasty, Chocolate
Body: Medium- Med/Full
Finish: Dry and Robust

6a. Colston Bassett Stilton
Cow
England
Bleu Cheese, rich in flavor
sharp and bitter
compliments and contrasts with the beer

7. DFH 60Min IPA  American IPA
App: Gold with a white head
Aroma: Piney, Citrus and Grapefruit
Flavor: Sweet piney notes, Grapefruit with a slight malty backbone
Body: Medium
Finish: Long and bitter, but smooth

7a. Mahon Cheese
Raw Cow
Spain
Olive, Peppery, Spicy
Accentuates the spice and bitterness of the IPA

8. Weihenstephaner Hefe Weissebier  German Hefe Weisse
App: Straw/Gold, Cloudy with a white head
Aroma: Banana, Clove, Bubble Gummy, slight spice
Flavor: Bubble Gum, Clove, Banana
Body: Medium
Finish: Refreshing

8a. Bucheron Cheese
Pasteurized Goat
France
Bloomy, Buttery, Rich
Light Citrus, Mushroom/Earthy notes
Less bright
Fatty Creaminess pairs with the banana flavors giving a sense of banana pie

9. Saison du Pont  Belgian Saison
App: Straw and Cloudy with a light white head
Aroma: Lemon,citrus, grassy, peppery, funk
Flavor: Lemon, pepper, grassy, barnyard funk/hay
Body: Medium
Finish: Refreshing/Quenching

9a. Cacio di Bosco  Cheese
Sheep
Italy
Peppery,garlic,earthy,buttery,truffle
the flavors of the cheese contrast the wild funkiness of the beer

10. Westmalle Tripel  Belgian Tripel
App: Cloudy Gold with a white head with good carbination
Aroma: Phenolic spiciness, grape, orange, clove
Flavor: Spicy, Peppery, sugar sweetness
Body: Medium
Finish: Dry

10a. Hooligan
 Cow
USA
Stinky, beefy, barnyard, sweaty socks, funk, saltiness
Umami present
The funkiness of the cheese cuts the sweet, fruity, spiciness of the beer

Sean and I have been kicking this around for a little bit now, and we feel that 2012 is the year to do it!

We want to start/form a Bottle Sharing/Trading Club. We are taking this club seriously.  So, the beer needed to partake will have to be up to snuff!

The goal will be to meet once a month at different locations throughout Philly, BuxCo, and MontCo to allow as many people to partake as possible. It will also allow for bar owners and local brewers to partake as well.

If you are interested please comment on this thread and make sure you sign up with your email address for us to contact you. More Info will follow!

We look forward to seeing and sharing a brew with you soon!

Cheers,

Kevin

The Grey Lodge’s world famous gravity-pour cask ale event that happens every Friday the 13th. Up to 30 firkins! Tapped 7 at a time until they are all gone.

Current Cask List

• Bavarian Barbarian First Snow
• Boulder Mojo
• Cricket Hill Colonel Blide’s Bitter
• Desiato Cider
• Dock Street Rye IPA, dry-hopped
• Duck Rabbit dry-hopped Brown Ale
• FiftyFifty Rockslide IPA
• Flying Fish Scarlet Fever
• Iron Hill West Chester Anvil Ale
• Lancaster Milk Stout
• Manayunk Rye of the Tiger
• Nodding Head 60 Shilling
• Old Speckled Hen
• Philly Joe Porter
• Prism Bitto Honey IPA
• Ruddles County Ale
• Sixpoint Gorilla Warfare
• Sixpoint Vienna Pale
• Sly Fox Sly Fox 113 IPA (113 on 1/13)
• Sly Fox Robbie Burns Scottish Ale
• Stone Stone Stone Smoked Porter – dry hopped w/ Chinook
• Stouts Chocolate ESB
• Victory ESB
• Voodoo Four Seasons IPA
• Weyerbacher Fireside
• Yards Brawler

This is always a good time ….

Cheers Sean

Thursday 12/8 at 6pm

Fort

Faithful

Hellhound

Bitches Brew

Chicory Stout

Pangaea

Immort Ale

Burton Baton

My Antonio

Namaste

Old School (2010)

60

90 Randall with maple soaked chipotles that’s right chipotles ( I think Jeff has officially lost his mind!!!) This gonna be awesome

If that doesn’t temp you ……

Bottles include

120

Bitches Brew

Hellhound

Faithful

I’m already regretting the hangover I’m gonna have at work on Friday!!!!

Cheers

Sean

TUESDAY DECEMBER 6
SPICE OF LIFE Beer Dinner at McCrossen’s Tavern (http://mccrossens.com/)

Enjoy a four-course meal which celebrates beer’s most unique ingredient — HOPS! Sixpoint will be providing three installments of the Spice of Life single-hop IPA series as well as the ultra-rare Gemini Double IPA which will be paired with unique dishes from the Craig Laban-praised kitchen at McCrossen’s Tavern. What will make these pairings unique is the food is being developed to highlight the specific hop in each Spice of Life beer! This dinner will not only be delicious, but educational! Representatives from Sixpoint will be on hand to speak about each hop featured. The meal is $40, 7PM seating, call (215) 854-0923 for reservations. McCrossen’s Tavern is located at 529 North 20th Street in the Fairmount section of Philadelphia.

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 7
DELAWARE COUNTY DOUBLEHEADER

Sampling & Meet-N-Greet At Pinocchio’s (http://www.pinpizza.com/)

Taste all five of Sixpoint’s Nanokeg offerings (Sweet Action, The Crisp, Bengali Tiger IPA, Righteous Ale & the brand-new Diesel) as well as multiple rare offerings on draft! Sixpoint reps will be hanging in the Beer Garden to greet customers and answer any questions. All Nanokegs will be available for sale, and all draft beers will be available for growler fills! Event runs from 5pm-7pm. Pinocchio’s is located at 131 East Baltimore Avenue in Media.

Tap Takeover at 2312 Garrett (http://2312garrett.com/)

Enjoy four draft offerings from Sixpoint along with a custom food offering (we are hearing Sweet Action Mussels!) at one of Delaware County’s best beer bars. We’ll have the Flyers game on, a few members of the Sixpoint team hanging out, and good times will abound! Event runs 7pm-9pm. Join us in Drexel Hill, the tavern’s name is also its address, 2312 Garrett Street.

THURSDAY DECEMBER 8

SIXPOINT INVADES MILKBOY! (http://www.milkboyphilly.com/)

In what stands to be a day of epic proportions, Sixpoint will be featured on both floors of Center City’s newest entertainment venue, Milkboy Philadelphia. It all starts at Happy Hour in the downstairs bar featuring both core and rare offerings on tap at 5pm.There is no cover charge and Sixpoint favorite Outside the Box will be making their Philly debut, playing an acoustic in the downstairs bar for happy hour.
   
With the party already started downstairs, the focus will shift to the upstairs concert venue for a very special event featuring the CD-release show for High Fidelity Distribution Co., with support from Pete Donnelly & Outside The Box (full electric set). All five Nanokegs offerings from Sixpoint will be featured during the show. Advance tickets and more info on the bands performing can be found at http://www.milkboyphilly.com/event/75763. Milkboy Philadelphia is located at 1100 Chestnut Street in the heart of Center City.

FRIDAY DECEMBER 9

Simul-Sampling in Montgomery & Chester County!

Not sure what case of beer you’ll be taking home for your weekend of watching football and early holiday parties? Sixpoint will help you make that decision with samplings at two great locations: Narberth Beverage & Exton Beverage. A member of the Sixpoint staff will be on hand at each store pouring complimentary samples of our five Nanokeg offerings from 5pm-7pm. Our four-packs make excellent stocking stuffers!

SATURDAY DECEMBER 10

HIGHWAY TO HELP at BARCADE (http://barcadephiladelphia.com/)

The cornerstone event of the Six Days of Sixpoint! This charity event benefits Philabundance. More information can be found here http://www.facebook.com/events/202182416525800/ and here http://beeradvocate.com/events/info/49988. Barcade Philadelphia is located at 1114 Frankford Avenue in Fishtown.

SATURDAY DEC 10 & SUNDAY DEC 11

SIXPOINT BEER BRUNCH at GARCES TRADING COMPANY (http://garcestradingcompany.com/)

What better way to cap off the week than a brunch paired with Sixpoint beers at the venerable Garces Trading Company (GTC). This casual beer-brunch will feature custom menu items and GTC brunch favorites paired with the full line of Sixpoint Nanokegs. Featured during the weekend with be the Sixpoint Otis Oatmeal Stout (Garces Reserva Version). This custom collaboration beer combines Sixpoint’s signature stout Otis infused with Garces Trading Company’s custom roasted Reserva Coffee. Garces Trading Company is located at 1111 Locust Street, call 215-574-1099 to make a reservation.

Cheers

Sean

As you know, our 3^rd Annual Blue Dog “Wealth of Riches” Beer Celebration starts this Saturday, September 17 at 11 am at our Chalfont location.  There is no admission fee.  The event is “pay-as-you-go.”

While we say the event runs all weekend, in fact we were able to obtain so much great beer this year that we’ll be tapping up unique and rare beers all throughout the week.  So if you can’t make it Saturday, come Sunday.  If you can’t visit on Sunday, stop in any time during the week and you’re guaranteed to be delighted with the overwhelming array of beers on tap!

We’ve set our Opening Line-Up.  This is subject to change only to the extent that some of the IPA’s and a few others aren’t scheduled to arrive until later in the week.  Please let me know what you think!

OPENING LINE-UP

Hill Farmstead Abner Imperial IPA (8.2% abv)

De Struise Pannepot Quadruppel (10% abv)

Founders Devil Dancer Triple IPA (12% abv)

Founders Kentucky Breakfast Stout 2010 (11.2% abv)

Founders Kentucky Breakfast Stout  2011 (11.2% abv)

Founders Blushing Monk “Belgian style ale fermented with real raspberries” (9.2% abv)

Founders Backwoods Bastard Scotch Ale 2010 (10.2% abv)

Founders Backwoods Bastard Scotch Ale 2011 (10.2% abv)

Dogfish Head World Wide Stout (18% abv)

Founders Cashew Experiment (aka Cashew Mountain Brown) “Imperial Brown Ale was aged in bourbon barrels that once aged maple syrup, with copious amounts of freshly toasted cashews added to the barrels; we had so much fun with the cashews that we added even MORE to the finishing tank after the beer came out of the barrels.   It is toasty, roasty and packed with maple, bourbon, and cashew flavors, with enough alcohol present to remind you that it is there without being overbearing.  Truly a one-of-a-kind beer that is like nothing we have ever made before (or may ever again)…”

Cantillon Kriek 100% Lambic “Blended lambic beer brewed with cherries.” (5% abv)
Lagunitas GnarelyWine 2008 (10.6% abv)
Lagunitas GnarleyWine 2010 (10.6% abv)
Ballast Point Sculpin India Pale Ale (7% abv)

Russian River Pliny the Elder Double IPA (8% abv)

Free Will Brewing Citra Pale Ale

ON DECK

Tröegs Perpetual IPA

Mikkeller Koppi Coffee IPA (6.9% abv)

3 Fonteinen Zwet.be Sour Porter (7% abv) “Belgian porter brewed with wild yeast”

Russian River Blind Pig IPA (6% abv) 5.49  “This beer is loaded with hop character but only has 6.0% abv.”

Tröegs Flying Mouflin Barleywine (9.3% abv)
Coronado Scallywag Barleywine 2010

Bear Republic Mach 10 Double IPA (9.2% abv)
Left Hand Haystack Wheat (1 of 5 kegs sent to the East Coast)

Port Older Viscosity 2010
Port Older Viscosity 2011
Stone Imperial Russian Stout
Stone Imperial Russian Belgo Stout
Russian River Supplication

Duck-Rabbit Imperial Stout 2009
Lost Abbey Angel’s Share 2010

Lost Abbey Bourbon-Barrel The Angel’s Share American Strong Ale (12% abv)

Green Flash Imperial IPA (9.4% abv)

Duck-Rabbit Rabid Duck Russian  Imperial Stout 2009 (10% abv)

Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout ’09 (10% abv)

De Struise Svea IPA

Left Hand Haystack Wheat (1 of only 5 kegs sent to the East Coast)

Ithaca Flower Power India Pale Ale (7.5% abv)

Avery Maharaja India Pale Ale (10.24% abv)

Green Flash West Coast IPA (7.3% abv)

Summit Silver Anniversary IPA (6.5% abv)

Firestone Walker Double Jack Imperial IPA (9.5% abv)

Southern Tier Crème Brûlée Imperial Milk Stout (9.6% abv)

I will be there   afternoon hopefully catch some of u there.  If you have never been there this place kicks butt. The food is awesome and they have multiple tvs for your football viewing pleasure

Cheers

Sean

Each week will have three categories 1. Session beers: these are easily obtainable at your local distributor 2. Imperial: mid range bottles were you might have to drive to bottle shop to get 3. Bourbon – not necessarily a bourbon beer but a beer that you might take awhile to get so plan ahead for a trade.

Week 1

Philadelphia Eagles vs St. Louis

1. Session: Everybody loves St. Louis finest Budweiser . There are many beers to choose from Bud Light/ Lime / Ice / Chelada.  I guess only if the eagles are losing folks….

2. Imperial: Sclafly can be found in New Jersey (Canals Hamilton)  and New York. They have a few different reserve series bottles that receive high grades on beer advocate and also a tripel that is rated well.

Urban Chestnut is a new brewery that is popping up in and around Philly.  Zwickel is an easy drinking keller bier that is great with BBQ.

3. Bourbon: Well as you can tell St.Louis is a not the easiest city to beer pair, so we are going to venture to Boulevard Brewing company . These highly rated brewery beers are on ebay or trade only. Tank 7  and double wide Ipa have been on my want list for a long time.

New York Giants vs Washington Redskins

Here is what I will be drinking

1. Session: Flying Dog Raging Bitch: one of my faviorite brews from the dog  brewery. The beer has  lots of hop-forward qualities. Mostly pineapple with some banana sweetness.  Sneaky drinkable at 8.3 % .

2. Imperial: Pick this up at my favorite bar Humeville Inn Stillwater 25 to one:A  Beligan Strong Dark . Hey I know its from Baltimore I need an excuse to open this badboy.

3. Bourbon: Breaking this bad boy out of the celler another Flying Dog beer Dog Schwartz…God I love smoked beers.

Cheers and Be safe

Sean

Don’t forget to check Beermenus.com for beers near u …………….