The next entry of Flying Fish’s Exit Series will be Exit 16 Wild Rice Double IPA. It will be available in big bottles and on draft in mid-March.

On Monday, March 8 from 6 to 8 pm, Flying Fish will hold an Exit 16 launch event iMcGillian’s Olde Ale House with founder Gene Muller and head brewer Casey Hughes tapping the first keg.  The event will be pay-as-you-go.
Cancelled due to registration delay.

Also on Monday, March 8th Yards Brewing founder Tom Kehoe will be upstairs at McGillins hosting a historical beer dinner called “150 Minutes for 150 years.”  Starting at 6:30pm Kehoe will discuss the history of his Ales of the Revolution and the evolution of the craft beer movement.

The evening will feature a hearty buffet dinner , beer tastings and colorful stories about the history of the McGillin’s.

Tickets cost $45 and include the discussions, dinner and tastings of the Ales of the Revolution from Yard’s Brewing and McGillin’s 1860 IPA from Stoudt’s Brewing.

Exit 16 [Official Site]
McGillin’s Old Ale House [Official Site]

Talk about fast-turnaround, Lucas Manteca signed a lease for the former Gayle 5 weeks ago and managed to open Hoof + Fin this past weekend. The BYO of course has a good mix of land and sea on the menu. [The Insider]

Meal Ticket gets a peek inside Healthy Bites to Go from Katie Cavuto. The market and cafe is set to open this Friday at 2521 Christian Street. [Meal Ticket]

Five Guys is expanding in Center City with a second location slated for 1109 Chestnut Street. [The Insider]

The next Flying Fish Exit Series beer will be a North Jersey inspired Exit 16. I’ll be a wild-rice Double-IPA and available in March. [Beer Stained Letter]

Ekta is expanding west, opening in the just closed Cafe Fresko in Bryn Mawr. [The Insider]

The vino is finally in Zavino. The pizza and wine bar got its liquor license over the weekend and will do glasses from $6-$12 and bottles from $25 to $56. [Meal Ticket]

Michael Klein has the opening dates for a bunch of restaurants that are coming soon to a storefront near you. [The Insider]

Ristorante Panorama locked down a Guinness World Record for having the world’s largest winekeeper cruvinet, it stores 120 bottles. [The Insider]

Is this some sort of Flying Fish promotion? Late last month the Cherry Hill brewer announces that its Exit 4 American Trippel will be available year-round in 12-ounce bottles and today a traffic plane lands on the New Jersey Turnpike near Exit 4. Hmmmmm. [Myfoxphilly.com]

Today the city will begin enforcing its menu labeling law where restaurants with more than 15 locations will be required to post calorie information on the menu. Chains that fail to comply will be fined $150 per day. That Five Guys cheeseburger, 840 calories. [NBC Philadelphia]

Early this morning a SEPTA bus crashed into the corner wall of Del Frisco’s steakhouse. [Myfoxphilly.com]

Tomorrow, Devil’s Den is hosting  Weyerbacher Wednesday, an event with a draft list that will include Winter Ale, Fireside Ale and Hotel, an Imperial Porter. It all kicks off at 7pm with draft and flight specials.

Thursday, the women of In Pursuit of Ale are hosting a mixer and pot luck at Yards Brewing. Beers will be $3 for ladies and $4 for the lads. It’ll be a great time to check out the tasting room too. [Beer Lass]

Also on Thursday and on the heels of the news that Flying Fish’s Exit 4 is becoming a year-round beer for the Cherry Hill brewer comes word that Swift Half will be tapping a special firkin of the American trippel at 7pm. [Swift Half Pub]

Saturday, the ingeniously named “Trouble with Trippels” will be happening all day at Johnny Brenda’s. Ten Belgian-style beers will be available, pay as you go.[Johnny Brenda's]

Flying Fish Exit 4, a 2009 Gold Medal winner at the Great American Beer Festival will be available year-round in 12 ounce bottles starting in early February. We look forward to enjoying this Belgian-inspired American Trippel anytime we want. In fact we could see it becoming the Foobooz World Headquarters house beer.

Flying Fish Exit 4 in 12 oz bottles [@jerseyfreshale]
Flying Fish Exit 4 [Official Site]

Of course the World Series begins tonight but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the launch of Flying Fish’s Exit 1 Bayshore Oyster Stout as well.

There are two launch parties, from 6 to 8pm at the Oyster House and from 7 to 9pm at the Standard Tap. Both these locations typically do not have televisions but will for the World Series. The Oyster House will also be offering $1 oysters and $3 oyster shooters.

Exit Series [Official Site]

Philadelphia area beers did well in Denver last week but they’re not the only ones getting national attention.

Gourmet’s John T. Edge “falls hard” for Philadelphia street food and names eight great street-food vendors in Philadelphia. [Gourmet via The Illadelph]

It wasn’t just the beer geeks who though that Flying Fish Exit 4 was the bomb. Men’s Journal called it the best Belgian Style beer of 2009. [Liquid Diet]

Zahav and Paesano’s make October’s Gourmet as restaurants “worth the money.” [Gourmet via Grub Street]

The Great American Beer Festival is the biggest brewing industry event in the United States and each year it closes out with a medal ceremony. And of course many local breweries were rightfully honored.

17 local beers won a medal including 7 Golds, among the gold winners were Flying Fish’s Exit 4 and Troegs Troegenator. Troegs and Dogfish Head each completed the trifecta, winning a Gold, Silver and Bronze.

See the complete list after the jump.

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Flying Fish’s Exit Series, which has taken us from Exit 4 to Exit 11 now heads south to Exit 1. The beers are inspired by each exit of the Turnpike. Exit 1 will be an Export Oyster Stout with Jersey Bayshore oysters. Look for it in early November.

Flying Fish [Twitter]

In the past week, three debuts were met with hype and promotion. SquareBurger, Flying Fish and P.Y.T. all had people talking.

Worth all the buzz, or too much hype? [Metro Philadelphia]