Flying Fish Brewing Company is a small craft beer

Beer

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 brewer

Brewing

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 founded in Cherry Hill, New Jersey

Cherry Hill, New Jersey

Cherry Hill is a township in Camden County, New Jersey, in the United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township had a population of 71,045, representing an increase of 1,080 from the 69,965 residents enumerated during the 2000 Census...

 (approximately seven miles east of Philadelphia) in 1995 and opened for business in late 1996. It was first founded on the World Wide Web

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, allowing beer lovers to participate in selecting and naming the types of beers the brewery would produce, volunteer as taste-testers, or even to sign up to be a brewer.

Having tripled their capacity since 1996, Flying Fish is now the largest of the craft brewers in New Jersey

New Jersey

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. The four year-round styles [Belgian Abbey Dubbel, HopFish IPA, ESB (Extra Special Bitter) Ale, and XPA (Extra Pale Ale)] are supplemented by a variety of seasonals, some only rarely available.

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 the summer of 2004 there was a blueberry flavored Abbey Dubbel available only in a 1/6 keg to recipients of the brewery's mailing list.

First in the region to be featured at the Great British Beer Festival

Great British Beer Festival

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, Flying Fish has also been featured at the Oregon Brewers Festival

Oregon Brewers Festival

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 and Canada's Biere de Mondial Festival and has also won several medals at both the Real Ale Festival in Chicago

Chicago

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 and the World Beer Championships.

Exit series

In 2009, Flying Fish began releasing a series of beers named after New Jersey Turnpike

New Jersey Turnpike

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 exits, each in styles intended to represent the part of the state served by that exit. The beers are sold in local stores in 750 ml bottles and are only available in limited supply. Some, such as the first release, are also available in 12 oz bottles. New beers in the series are released every 3–4 months, starting with Flying Fish's home exit, Exit 4, in March 2009. The exit series has also generated some controversy, as the NJ chapter of MADD

Mothers Against Drunk Driving

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 has criticized the association of driving and alcohol.

Exit Series releases

Exit	Description	Release Date
Exit 4	American Trippel	March 2009
Exit 11	Hoppy American Wheat Wheat beer Wheat beer is a beer that is brewed with a large proportion of wheat. Wheat beers often also contain a significant proportion of malted barley. Wheat beers are usually top-fermented...	July 2009
Exit 1	Bayshore Oyster Stout	October 2009
Exit 16	Wild Rice Double IPA	March 2010
Exit 6	Wallonian Rye Rye beer Rye beer refers to any beer in which rye is substituted for some portion of the barley malt.One example of this is roggenbier which is a specialty beer produced with up to sixty percent rye malt...	June 2010
Exit 13	Chocolate Stout	December 2010
Exit 9	Hoppy Scarlet Ale	March 2011

External links

• Flying Fish Official Site