Sly Fox BIG news. Doubled.
I’m not sure I’m supposed to be posting this yet but I did promise you folks some big news a while back, this is pretty much common knowledge around the Phoenixville area at the point and, well, what the hell…
The lease has been signed. Sly Fox Brewhouse & Eatery will move into a brand new facility in the shopping center on the other side of Rt. 113 this fall. The new, larger pub will feature three handpumps and an automated growler filler similar to the one which has been such a hit at Victory’s revamped brewpub since it opened last year. The current brewhouse will be moved to the new location. A date for the move has not yet been set.
There’s another big Sly Fox story breaking as well.
Sly Fox first shipment of cask ale firkins is due to arrive tomorrow. These are the real thing and real cask ale will be brewed for them. The cask ale program is schedule to begin after the move to the new location has been completed but Brian O’Reilly told me an hour ago that he might not be able to wait that long so the first firkins might actually go on at the current location.
More details on the new pub will be forthcoming, probably posted at the brewery website and the Beer Yard and then linked from here. O’Reilly’s off for a week’s vacation but I hope to get up an interview with him about the cask ale program around the middle of the month.
Oh, and here’s something for you Baltimore readers: the bottling of a new batch of Brewers Art Resurrection Ale was going on when I visited Sly Fox’s Royersford brewery earlier this afternoon.
Finally, for those of you who do not subscribe to the Sly Fox Newsletter, the new edition was sent out this morning and can be read online here.
“Sly Fox first shipment of cask ale firkins is due to arrive tomorrow. These are the real thing and real cask ale will be brewed for them. ”
Was old Sly Fox cask ale fake? What makes this real ale more realer?
(I know the difference between normal draft beer and real ale - but rather confused now since I figured all the handpumps I see round the city all this time were naturally carbonated in the same thing it was served out of, without the use of co2 to push it out.)
All will be made clear, grasshopper, in the O’Reilly interview I promised.
Which shopping center? Boooooo. I am a purist; I love the current location.
The Genuardi’s one, Maple Lawn Village. Purists love the idea not the physical. It’ll be the same, only different.
100 meter goat races coming up!
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