Flying Dog NEW Tasting Room Opens 6/11

Get your cold beer here…seriously! After nearly three years of working (in tandem with the Brewers Association of Maryland) with state and county legislators, we are now legally allowed to sell beer by the glass in our tasting room. 

Prior to these new laws, we were viewed strictly as a manufacturing facility and were only allowed to serve beer samples after patrons went on a guided tour of the brewery. But starting this Thursday, our tasting room will be open:

FREDERICK, MD – Tomorrow, Flying Dog will open its doors in a brand new way. After working

with state and county legislators for nearly three years, the brewery is now able

to serve beer by the glass in its tasting room.

“Prior to this effort, which we could not have done without the Brewers Association of

Maryland, Flying Dog was solely viewed and licensed as a manufacturing facility by the

state,” CMO Ben Savage said. “And under that license, we were only allowed to serve

beer samples after patrons went on a tour of the brewery.”

Flying Dog will continue to offer tours and sell flights of beer samples, but it can now

serve its 20 beers on tap by the glass – thanks to an updated license that applies to all

production breweries in Maryland.

The new license, and updated Maryland State laws, went into effect in July 2013. From

there, each brewery had to apply for a serving permit from their local county liquor

board. After over a year of working through the legal language associated with these

new laws, Flying Dog received its permit from Frederick County in April of this year.

“Craft beer is all about continued innovation, so it’s really important that breweries are

accessible and can share their stories and beers with audiences who are continuously

hungry for it,” Savage said.

With the opening of its tasting room comes the unveiling of Sub Rosa, a series of small-

batch, limited releases brewed on Flying Dog’s 15-barrel pilot brewery and available

exclusively in the tasting room.

“Our pilot brewery allows us to be much more nimble than our full-fledged operations,

so it’s a blank canvas for us,” Brewmaster Matt Brophy said. “We can approach it with

whatever raw materials or processes we want and make something special just for our

tasting room.”

For tomorrow’s opening, a Thai IPA (brewed with ginger, lemongrass, mint and basil)

and an Extra Pale Ale from the Sub Rosa series will be on tap. The Baltimore-based band

Solicitors will also perform starting at 5 pm.

From there, Flying Dog’s tasting room will be open Thursdays and Fridays, 3-8 pm;

Saturdays, 12-8 pm; and Sundays, 12-6 pm for on and off-premise – including growler

fills – beer sales. Tours of the brewery are now free and offered Thursday through

Saturday by reservation through Flying Dog’s website.