The enterprising and energetic duo will sign a lease today for a new venture on the site of the former Yello Bar at the corner of Grays Ferry Avenue and Catharine Street and hope to renovate and redecorate for a September opening.

The name will be Resurrection Ale House and, Maida told the Beer Yard early this morning, "we're focused (as always) on a stellar craft beer list, but we're equally focused this time on the dining side of things as well. For now we're sort of working under the term 'beer bistro' as a guiding principle, for the menu, the decor, the over-all vibe of the place. We're hoping for the same kinds of laid back, food and beer savvy, mixed-bag of cool guests that we get to meet at Memphis and Local 44."

If nothing else, three new locations in less than two years ought to earn then a place on everybody's publicans of the year lists...maybe even of the decade.--JACK CURTIN

The original brewhouse will be moved to the new site, which will feature three handpumps pouring real cask ale and an automated growler filler which should insure perfect fills and longer shelf life in customers' refrigerators.

No date for the move has been set but "three months or so" are what insiders told The Beer Yard today.

Sly Fox Brewhouse & Eatery opened in December 1995 and is operated by the Giannopoulos family. Sly Fox also owns a restaurant and production brewery in Royersford, established in November 2004.--JACK CURTIN