Anti-Drunk Driving Activists Go After N.J. Brewery for Naming Beers After Highway

Foxnews ^ | 7/10/2009 | Staff

[Red in Blue PA]

CHERRY HILL, N.J. — A small brewery has found inspiration on the New Jersey Turnpike — and anti-drunken-driving crusaders say that's a bad idea.

Cherry Hill-based Flying Fish Brewing Co. has started releasing beers that honor the congested and often-derided thoroughfare. The second one to be released honors Exit 11 and will be on store shelves in the region later this month.

[Red in Blue PA]

The sad irony is that NJ has a Liberty State Park.....but alas, no liberty resides in that state.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Beer Ping!

[Cowboy Bob]

Will they have one called “Pulaski Skyway”?

[Baladas]

Oh, fer cryin’ out loud - those MADD bunch are such Nazis.

[Ken522]

I’d drink a few for Exit 14A!

[jakerobins]

How about a Palisades Parkway beer....Even has a catchy song.....

Down at Palisades Park......Freddy Cannon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWzTE83-buA

[Cowboy Bob]

I’d drink a few for Exit 14A!

When I grew up, I was identified as "Exit 136, Garden State Parkway!"

[mick]

C'mon...that's a great idea !! Don't you realize we in jersey locate ourselves by naming what exit we live near......as for me, living near exit 4 in south jersey, that would mean a pale pilsner............but up in Newark around exit 14 would be a heavy, dark stout.

Oh, the possibilities are endless.....we have the Pine Barrons around exits 5 through 8....the shore around exits 10 through 12 and the polluted oil refineries in the North around exits 13 through 16....talk about a niche market LOL

[snowsislander]

What an extraordinarily poor job of "reporting". The headline blares on about "Anti-Drunk Driving Activists", but we are never informed as to what group or groups these activists might be.

Instead, almost exactly the same tired phrase ('activists' is changed to 'crusaders') is used once more in the first paragraph, and we are then left to wonder about them and their alleged crusading actions against the brewer.

[Oztrich Boy]

we are never informed as to what group or groups these activists might be.

Do you really need that info? If you are told what they are specifically objecting to you can work out if it's CSPI, MADD, or PETA.

[jiggyboy]

non sequitur (plural non sequiturs or non sequuntur)

2. (logical fallacy) Any invalid argument in which the conclusion cannot be logically deduced from the premises; a logical fallacy.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/non_sequitur

[GOP_Raider]

The sad irony is that NJ has a Liberty State Park.....but alas, no liberty resides in that state.

Well put.

[GOP_Raider]

Beer Ping!

A low to medium ping list aimed at all of us who, well, love our beer…

FReepmail rzeznikj at stout or GOP_Raider to be added or struck from the list…

[concentric circles]

Gene Muller, founder and president of Flying Fish Brewing Co., displayed bottles of Exit 4 and Exit 11 beers at the brewery’s headquarters in Cherry Hill, N.J. (Mike Derer)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I think it’s brilliant marketing; Lord knows New Jersey could use some more of THAT, LOL!

Sadly, most of you will never know the GLORY and the HONOR and the HEAVY BURDEN and the PURE DUMB LUCK of being born in, and growing up in, Milwaukee, WI where every ONE of your Uncles is a Brewmaster for a major brewer. ;)

Line up to kiss my pull-top ring, LOL!

[GOP_Raider]

I was actually in your fair state a few weeks ago for my brother’s wedding. There was one beer I tried and I cant think of the name of it now. It was an amber ale and I think it was either brewed by or just called a Fat Cow or something like that. (I love amber ales and it tasted like a much more hoppy version of Fat Tire). I just can’t think of the name of it now...

[Diana in Wisconsin]

‘Spotted Cow’ from The New Glarus Brewing Company. I know it well. There are six bottles in my ‘beer fridge’ on the back porch right now. :)

If they were serving that at their wedding, that marriage was made in Heaven and will last a lifetime. :)

If I wasn’t having my after-work dirty Martini, I’d crack one open for you right now, LOL!

[GOP_Raider]

Spotted Cow, that’s the one! The bar that was closest to the reception area had it on tap, and I thought I’d try it, since it was something new. I wanted something besides Bud Light and even though I was in the wedding (best man) I wanted something different.

Right now I’m drinking a Fat Tire so I suppose that will have to do for now.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Flat Tire is good beer, too. They just ‘released’ it to us ‘commoners’ here in the area. ;)

[GOP_Raider]

Yeah, when I was talking about this to the bartender in Marshfield, I mentioned “you know I like amber ales like Fat Tire” she looked at me like I said “say, you ever notice all of the horse carcasses on the street lately?” She’d never heard of it. I do wish I could get a few of New Glarus’s beers outside of WI though.