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Consider it an extremely hoppy barleywine, or a really big IPA. Either way, ten hop additions contribute to its lush and intriguing body. Aggressive dry-hopping brings a strong citrus character to the aroma. The flavor and smell of orange-blossoms pervade throughout the experience.

Exit 11 Hoppy American Wheat Ale is the second in their wildly popular Exit Series of Big Bottle Beers. Exit 11 is a confluence of styles and ingredients, just as Exit 11 is the point in New Jersey where the Garden State Parkway, the New Jersey Turnpike and several other highways come together. “Exit 11 is the point on the Turnpike where the Garden State Parkway branches off and takes hundreds of thousands of travelers to the renowned Jersey Shore,” says Flying Fish Founder Gene Muller. “Our Exit 11 Wheat Ale is a fresh, citrus-y summer beer perfect for beachgoers and those who only wish they were headed ‘downa shore’.” Exit 11 is an American-style wheat beer brewed with English ale yeast and three Pacific Northwest hops, Columbus, Palisade and Amarillo. It is brewed with 50% Belgian pale malt and 50% white wheat, and is an ideal summer thirst quencher, with its bouquet of tangerines and apricots. Exit 11 is available only during this one-time release, and only until it sells out across New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware.

Although usually identified with landfills and pipelines, the Hackensack Meadowlands is an amazingly diverse ecosystem providing vital animal and plant habitat. In a nod to a once common food plant here, we’ve brewed this beer with wild rice. We also added organic brown and white rice, as well as pils and pale malts. Rice helps the beer ferment dry to better showcase the five different hops we added. Lots and lots of them. We then dry-hopped this Double IPA with even more–generous additions of Chinook and Citra hops to create a nose that hints at tangerine, mango, papaya and pine. This beer pairs extremely well with spicy foods and all kinds of seafood. And of course, it’s quite enjoyable all by itself. If you want to learn more about the restoration of the Meadowlands, visit www.HackensackRiverkeeper.org

Exit 3 is the gateway to a lot of farmland, so we’re using one the state’s favorite crops– blueberries. Braggot is an ancient style– written about since the 12th century. This Braggot features local blueberries and honey, a very limited amount of hops and is fermented with Belgian-style yeast. The result is a straw colored beer with blueberry highlights. On the first sip you will note a light sweetness along with citrus notes followed by a well rounded malt character. The beer has a medium full body. Malt: Belgian Pilsner Hops: Horizon Other: Sweet orange peel, lemon peel, NJ honey, Hammonton, NJ blueberries Yeast: Belgian, finished with Champagne Original Gravity: 29º plato Alcohol by volume: 15% IBUs: 10 Formats: 750 ml bottles, extremely limited draft Availability: One time only

This beer was inspired by the Beers Made By Walking Project. Along with friends from the Pinelands Preservation Alliance and NJ Conservation Foundation, we hiked through Pinelands National Reserve to bring you this medium bodied Saison. Herbal flavor and notes of foraged pine needles, goldenrod and wintergreen, blend perfectly with the peppery, earthy notes of the Saison yeast.

The long-delayed eighth stop on our multi- year trip brings us to, coincidentally, Exit 8 and celebrates what puts the “Garden” in Garden State. To celebrate Exit 8, one of our big farming areas, we’ve brewed a beer that uses a lost local ingredient: chestnuts–and a popular current one: local honey. This full-bodied hybrid Belgian-style brown ale brings forward a nutty character from the chestnuts, accented by the flavors of honey, roasted barley and oat flakes. There’s a nice spiciness from the Mt. Rainier hops while Chinooks add a touch of pine. Fuggles and Columbus round out the hop profile. Chestnut Brown Ale

Imperial oatmeal milk stout aged in bourbon barrels.

It’s an exciting time as we are finally starting to get hops on our contract. We will be brewing experimental batches of IPA until we find the juiciest hop combo that we like. Try them all over the next couple months and let us know which one you like the most. These batches are hop bursted & dry hopped with over 5 lbs per barrel.

Inspired by the Three Weavers community, Expatriate is our bright, tropical, fruit-forward West Coast IPA. Brewed with Maris Otter and two-row barley, a touch of English crystal mal, and loaded new age American hops, Expatriate is home no matter where you are. El Dorado and Simcoe hops, dry hopped with Mosaic, Simcoe, and El Dorado

The beer, ExpElla is pale orange with copper highlights with tons of grapefruit and citrus aromas and flavors from the Ella hops. The malt character is slightly bready or nutty to start and finishes dry and very bitter. The base beer is our Self Starter Session IPA and we swap out the traditional Amarillo for the experimental hop so that it can be sampled side by side in order to determine the flavor and aromatic quality of the experimental hop.

A DIPA with a different personality...this is a slightly maltier DIPA, and uses Saphir, Hallertau Blanc and Ella hops for a unique combination of herbal, noble hop, grapefruit, lemon zest and spicy notes.

Wasabi - Our 65th "experimental" small batch brew.

Experimental brew w/ black currants; Version 1-2008: only 10 special cases made; 6.0% This listing is for BOTH the bottled version, as for the draught cassislambic, as they are essentialy the same beer!

A different take on a DIPA, this beer is fermented with Belgian Rochefort Yeast to offer up some banana, apple & pear esters. This character is complemented by Citra, Simcoe and Comet hops to offer some tropical, citrus and some wild/grassy notes. Show Less