Iron Hill & Flying Fish Partner on 2nd Co-Brew: Jersey’s Finest
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From Iron Hill & Flying Fish:
MAPLE SHADE, NJ – On Wednesday, January 23 at 6 p.m., Head Brewer Chris LaPierre of Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant (124 East Kings Highway, 856-273-0300) and Head Brewer Casey Hughes of Flying Fish Brewing Company (900 Kennedy Boulevard, Somerdale, NJ, 856-504-3442) will debut Jersey’s Finest, their second collaboration beer, an assertively hopped American IPA. Special guest New Jersey State Senator Don Norcross will be on hand for the first tap, as will Iron Hill owners Kevin Finn, Mark Edelson and Kevin Davies, and both brewers will also be available to chat with fans and friends about their new beer.
“Iron Hill has always taken great pride in being a vital part of the communities where our brewpubs are located, and Chris’s boisterous Jersey pride is very much in that spirit,” says Edelson. “Along with Casey and his team at Flying Fish, we’re working every day to put New Jersey craft beer on the map, and their new collaboration beer is a world-class representative of our great state.”
Jersey’s Finest is hopped with three different varieties of experimental hops for aggressive flavor and bitterness. LaPierre and Hughes worked together once before, on 2011’s Iron Fish, a Belgian-style black IPA. Other beers available during the debut include such rare and special Iron Hill and Flying Fish offerings as: Wild, Bourbon-Aged Cherry Iron Fish, a version of their last collaboration that has been aged in a bourbon barrel with sour cherries and spiked with brettanomyces; Exit 16, a wild rice double IPA that is part of Flying Fish’s Exit Series of beers celebrating the exits of the New Jersey Turnpike; S-641, a dry-hopped, cask conditioned blend of Flying Fish Hopfish and Iron Hill Abbey Dubbel that they created in honor of the new craft brewer friendly legislation that is thanks in part to the support of State Senator Norcross.
State Senator Norcross was instrumental in passing the recent New Jersey Craft Brewers Bill, which broadly expands microbreweries’ and brewpubs’ ability to produce and sell their beers throughout the state. Proponents of the law say it will help New Jersey to compete on a national level, as their small breweries and brewpubs expand to meet a growing demand and offer on-site tastings and events for the first time.
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