Alcoholic Beverage Manufacturing

In The Tasting Room: Key West Amber Ale from Florida Beer Company

Friday's here, so it's time for beer. Every Friday, so long as the creek don't rise, this beer enthusiast will take a look at a Florida beer that, hopefully, should be readily available in a local shop or on tap at your favorite bar. Memorial Day is coming up this Monday, so we thought it best to ... More >>

Old School Beerfest Tonight in Delray Beach, Local Brewers Featured

American Craft Beer Week in South Florida is not over until the fat lady sings, or at least until the beer taps run dry at the Old School Beefest in Delray Beach. The pouring starts at 6 p.m. and goes until 10 in the Outdoor Pavilion at the Delray Beach Center for the Arts. If you haven't already ... More >>

Broward's Homebrew Craft Beer Scene: Can Brewers Turn a Hobby Into a Business?

Top Ten Mexican Craft Brews for Cinco de Mayo

The history of craft beer in Mexico traces its history to before the Spanish conquest when the natives brewed fermented beverages with ingredients ranging from corn, cocoa beans to agave. One of them is a drink called izquiate or tesgüino, which is brewed with corn. Then the Conquistadors introduc ... More >>

Local Suds Take Over The Taps

23. Lauren Bowen of Tap 42

New Times' Best Of Broward-Palm Beach 2013 issue arrives June 13. To celebrate, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up 30 of our favorite tastemakers -- restaurateurs, chefs, bartenders, and other foodies who make the South Florida food scene what it is. We'll start with number 30 and lead up to South Fl ... More >>

Brewzzi, Due South Score Awards at Best Florida Beer Championships

Brewzzi, a Palm Beach brewpub, scored a total of ten medals at the 2013 Best Florida Beer Championships on Saturday in Tampa, winning two gold, four silver, and four bronze medals.Due South Brewing Co. of Boynton Beach also came away with several medals, winning four silver and three bronze.

Das Biergarten Craft Beer Celebration

Jupiter Craft Brewers Festival

South Florida Beer Week is January 19-26, 2013 (Check out the Initial Schedule of Events)

Craft drinkers -- gird your loins and put your liver on notice, cause South Florida Beer Week is almost exactly one month away. The second annual celebration of homegrown and national craft beers kicks off on Saturday, January 19, 2013, and will wrap up with the seventh annual Jupiter Craft Brewers' ... More >>

The Best Florida Beers & a Craft Beer Geek's Holiday Wish List: Sybarite Pig's Daniel Naumko Shares His Picks

Daniel Naumko, owner of the new Sybarite Pig restaurant in Boca Raton, is a true beer geek. One of the defining philosophies at his business will be "special beers for special people." It's part of his mission to promote the art of good beer and the people behind it. "I really got into craft beer ... More >>

Inside Gold Coast Distributors' Private Homebrew Competition

Some companies use cheesy videos with horrible actors to train their employees. The military uses combat scenarios. Gold Coast Beverage Distributors, Inc. throws homebrewing competitions. Last Thursday, the ever-faithful associates of Gold Coast Distributors assembled at America's Backyard for the f ... More >>

Funky Buddha Lounge Expands Brewery to Oakland Park

The Funky Buddha Lounge, the Boca Raton brewpub and hookah bar known for its speakeasy vibe, announced Friday that it will expand its brewing operation to Oakland Park. Part of a vision for a new culinary arts district in Oakland Park, the new brewery will reside in an 18,000-square-foot building in ... More >>

Tequesta Cask Night

Goose Island Beer Will Be Be Available In Florida By End Of November

South Florida beer nerds collectively threw up their arms and danced a little jig -- all without spilling a drop of their precious hand-crafted, coffee-infused porter, of course -- with the news that Goose Island beer soon will be available in all 50 states. According to the Goose Island website, th ... More >>

Beer and Dinner Pairing

"Hot and Sweaty" Meatball Eating Contest

The Craft-Beer Craze Finally Finds Florida

A Plea for More Homegrown Craft Beer in South Florida

South Florida is a boozy, tourist-driven economy. With American Craft Beer Week upon us -- Cheers! And so help you god if you consume a Budweiser product this week -- it's a fitting time to contemplate why the region is moving at a positively glacial pace to tap into the possibilities that exist in ... More >>

Give Coors the Cold Shoulder

Pour One Out for Light Beer: Miller Lite and co. Losing Ground to Craft Beer

​Bud, Coors, and Miller lovers take note: Your barley water may be in trouble. According to a piece posted today on bloomberg.com, the light beer industry is suffering in an age of craft beer, designer cocktails, and wine. Bloomberg reporter Duane D. Stanford cites "cabernet-loving baby boomers" a ... More >>

Holy Mackerel Head Brewer and Founder Bobby Gordash Talks Craft Beer in South Florida

​In anticipation of the upcoming New Times' Beerfest (Saturday, March 31, in downtown Fort Lauderdale) Clean Plate Charlie has been talking with South Florida beer aficionados and experts about the state of beer in Florida and beyond. Earlier this week, we talked to John Linn of Fresh Beer Inc., w ... More >>

Counting Down to New Times' Beerfest: John Linn Talks Craft Beer and Why It's Gaining Traction in South Florida

​With the New Times' Beerfest just a few short weeks away, Clean Plate Charlie is focused on all things beer and particularly the beer scene as it stands in South Florida. To get an understanding of where our region and our state are fall in line with national trends, we connected with John Linn, ... More >>

Boca Bacchanal Is March 23 to 25: A Look at the Events

​The Boca Bacchanal, a party paying tribute to the glory of food and drink, is set for March 23 to 25 in various locations throughout southern Palm Beach County, with funds going to the Boca Raton Historical Society's Historic Preservation and Heritage Education programs. Named as it is for the Ro ... More >>

Sublime Hosts Craft Beer Night

​There was a time before the microbrewery boom where if you were a vegan drinker, you had few options outside of Beck's. With many beer companies sticking honey or lactose in their flavorings or finings that use gelatin, egg albumin, or fish, finding cruelty-free drinks can be as difficult as ... More >>

Three Must-Try Craft Beer Events Tonight

​American Craft Beer Week continues tonight with three outstanding events throughout Broward and Palm Beach Counties. Which means you don't have to drive too far to get a taste of great craft beer. If You're in Palm Beach......then you've got to hit up BX Beer Depot's (2964 Second Ave., Lake ... More >>

Eat, Drink, and Be Merry During American Craft Beer Week in South Florida

​(Queue the Professor Farnsworth voice) Great news, everyone! It's American Craft Beer Week!What's American Craft Beer Week? It's nationwide celebration of all things craft beer, running from May 16 to the 22. And it's going on right now at restaurants and bars all across South Florida.Gettin ... More >>

Boca Bacchanal 2011 Set for March 18-20

isante magazine​The Boca Bacchanal is coming up March 18th-20th. The events will start with the Vintner dinners, which will be delicious dinners served in private residences all throughout Boca Raton. These intimate evenings are 

Q&A With Craft Beer Lover Kenny St. Cyr From Fresh Beer

Kenny St. Cyr​Kenny St. Cyr may have one of the most mantastic jobs in all of South Florida.It doesn't have anything to do with owning your own sports team, and it doesn't grant him celebrity status -- yet. And, no, he's not a photographer for bikini-clad models. St. Cyr is just an ordinary g ... More >>

Restaurant News: Pops Corn Pops Up in Fort Lauderdale, Market 17 Hosts Paul Hobbs Wine Dinner, Publix Rolls Out Private Label Cheese

​• Pops Corn, the Pembroke Pines purveyor of haute popcorn spiked with caramel, cheddar cheese, chocolate, and more, has opened a third local outlet just off A1A in Fort Lauderdale. Located at 901 E. Sunrise Lane (954-567-6002), the new Pops is also peddling Yo Mama's ice cream, which, like the ... More >>

Jupiter Craft Brewers Festival Is New and Improved For 2011

​More beers, a larger local contingent, and a much bigger space are all on the docket for this year's Jupiter Craft Brewers Festival, going down January 28 and 29 at Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter. Oh and plenty of drinking, dancing, and people dressed as Trappist monks. That too.The annu ... More >>

Bottega Wine Bar Debuts in Coconut Creek

​"Making wine accessible to everyone," not just wine geeks, cork dorks and conny-sewers, is the goal of Coconut Creek's new Bottega Wine Bar (4455 Lyons Rd., 954-969-1744), says co-owner Simon Bai.  Along with partner Faron Shiem, Bai has created a space that's as much a "nice environment to ... More >>

Beer of the Week: Samuel Adams Cream Stout

​Unrepentant beer drinkers, rejoice! Each week, Clean Plate Charlie will select one craft or import beer and give you the lowdown on it: How does it taste? What should you drink it with? Where can you find it? But mostly, it's all about the love of the brew. If you have a beer you'd like featured ... More >>

Cheap Wine That Doesn't Suck: Cottonwood Creek 2009 White Table Wine

​Unless you're a serious student of the business end of the wine business, you've probably never heard of Fred Franzia. You probably haven't heard of Bronco Wine Co. either, even though it's the fourth largest wine company in the country, producing some 20 million cases of wine annually and counti ... More >>

Beer of the Week: St. Ambroise Biere Blonde Pale Ale and La Fin Du Monde

John Linn​Unrepentant beer drinkers, rejoice! Each week, Clean Plate Charlie will select one craft or import beer and give you the lowdown on it: How does it taste? What should you drink it with? Where can you find it? But mostly, it's all about the love of the brew. If you have a beer you'd like ... More >>

Crafting Beer With Big Bear's Brewing Co.'s Matt Cox -- Updated With Slideshow

C. StilesBig Bear brewmaster Matt Cox stirs a batch of Polar Light.​Update: Check out the slideshow of brewing at Big Bear, online now.Since 1996, Big Bear Brewing Co., Broward's only independently owned and operated brewpub, has been crafting award-winning beers in suburban Coral Springs. For the ... More >>

Florida Doesn't Have a Top 50 Craft Brewer

Source: Brewers Association​At least not according to the Brewers Association, the organization that advocates for the craft brewing industry. Out of the top 50 craft brewers in the country, Florida isn't represented by one. In fact, Florida is among the states with the fewest number of breweries ... More >>

Cheap Wine That Doesn't Suck

Bill Citara​It's always more fun to root against the Big Guys, especially when it comes to wine. That sweet little boutique winery tucked away on some back-country road in Napa or Sonoma has a lot more caché than a mega-giant wine processing plant that looks like an oil refinery and is owned by a ... More >>

Cheap Wine That Doesn't Suck

​The story of Robert Mondavi is as depressing as it is inspirational. Probably no single person did more to put California on the world wine map, not only as a vintner who produced wines that rivaled some of the best of Europe but as an evangelist of New World wines, an industry power who used his ... More >>

Charlie's Guide to Speaking Wine, or, How to Bullshit Wine Drinkers

​The world of wine speaks a language all its own. Urdu, mostly. With a soupcon of bullshit and a faint whiff of pretension.  So in keeping with Clean Plate Charlie's commitment to calling a spade a goddamned shovel, he presents this modest glossary of wine terms for your amusement, edificatio ... More >>

Wine Guy: Pairing with Pizza

John LinnSven Vogtland is the Advanced Sommelier at the Ritz-Carlton Fort Lauderdale, and a 13-year veteran of the craft who has recommended bottles in the sunny Virgin Islands and in far-away Vietnam. In this column, Vogtland will discuss the latest trends in wine, from what bottles and regions are ... More >>

Episode I: Attack of the Beer Clones

Interview with Beer Wars' Director Anat Baron

Anat Baron poses with brew.It's going to be a beer-filled kind of week, folks. First, New Times' Original Beerfest is only five days away. If you haven't grabbed your tickets yet to the four-hour celebration of import and craft brews, you can pick them up here. Second, this Thursday is the opening o ... More >>

A Port in Poland

Malts & Crafts

Wine of the Times

Best Do-It-Yourself Wine

Let's Make Wine

Tehran Testing

Foodstuff

Florida Grape Growers Association

Foodstuff

A Sonoma County Wine Experience