Flying Fish brewery is throwing Iron Hill a “Welcome to New Jersey” party…. right in our own restaurant.  As companies, we both have the same mission, to build craft beer culture in this area. We thought we’d put our heads (and beers) together for a special event to do just that.  Craft brewer’s aren’t competetive with each other the way some errrr bigger more cut-throat beer companies are.  We’ve got four percent of the market . Rather than fight each other over the small percentage left by the mega-swill conglomerates, we prefer to work together to educate the unfortunate 96% about how wonderful beer can be.  So we trade information, lend out equipment, share ingredients in a pinch and do events together.  (Plus Casey’s a friend and we’ll take any excuse to get together and start drinking beers early in the day.) A week from this Saturday (10 / 24) Flying Fish will be welcoming us to the neighborhood by bringing some of their more sought after creations into our restaurant for a special gathering.  We’ll reciprocate by putting some of our reserve stash on tap for the afternoon.  Of course brewers from both breweries will be around to give tours, chat and of course drink beers with you.  The beers will be tapped at 1:00 pm and stay on until (a) 5:00, (b) they run out or (c) Casey says something stupid and falls down.  We’ll be offering a sampler of all six of the guest and reserve beers for $8 for as long as all of the beers are available. Or if you already know your favorite you can just stick with full glasses. See you there!

The Beers…  Flying Fish; Exit 4 (this is the last keg of the recent GABF gold medal winner), Belgian Imperial Mild, Grand Cru.  Iron Hill; Brett Barrel Aged Quadruppel, Totally Inappropriate, vintage Golden Barleywine.