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Beer At The 2013 Las Olas Food and Wine Festival

Some might say that a food and wine festival is not a place to sample beer, but they'd be wrong, wrong, wrong! It just happens to be not a very good place to do so. Not caring much for convention, nor for being seen as the odd man out at the festival, I grabbed my festival wine glass and made my wa ... More >>

New Times Beerfest 2013: Here's Your Guide to Beer, Food, and Fun

The 16th-annual New Times "Original" Beerfest is coming to Fort Lauderdale's Esplanade Park tomorrow, April 6, from 6 to 11 p.m. We can feel the excitement in the air as we prepare to drink plenty of good beer, eat delicious food, and listen to some of the best live and local talent south Florida ha ... More >>

New Times Beerfest: Here's Your Guide to Beer, Food, and Fun

The 16th-annual New Times "Original" Beerfest is coming to Fort Lauderdale's Esplanade Park tomorrow April 6, from 6 to 11 p.m. We can feel the excitement in the air as we prepare to drink plenty of good beer, eat delicious food, and listen to some of the best live and local talent south Florida has ... More >>

New Times Beerfest: Homebrew Alley New For 2013

Since ancient days in Egypt, people have been brewing their own beers and ales. That means that beer has a much longer history than most anything else humans drink. After centuries of drinking beers and ales made by monks, pubs, and fancy-pants breweries, people are finally turning back to home brew ... More >>

Whole Foods Market Seeking Beer Judges for the Sixth Annual Beer-Offs

Can you expound -- at great length -- on the differences between a porter and a stout? Are you the go-to guy/gal in your group when it comes time to pick out the brews for poker night? Do you live for bracket-style elimination tournaments? If the answer to all of these is a resounding yes, Whole Foo ... More >>

Holy Mackerel Beer Opens Brewpub In Broward, Replaces Stage 84

Hey Broward, if you love local beer and you want to find the source, then you don't have to go far because Holy Mackerel owner Bobby Gordash opened The Mack House, a brewpub specializing in nothing but Holy Mackerel brews. The new brewpub houses Gordash's new Holy Mackerel nano brewery and it r ... More >>

Five South Florida Dining Events This Weekend: Baseball & Brews and More

To look at this weekend's list of South Florida dining -- and drinking -- events, you'd be forgiven for thinking Clean Plate Charlie has a minor obsession with beer. To that we say...and your point is? From the all-American pairing of beer and baseball to traditional German beer shenanigans, this we ... More >>

South Florida Dining Events This Week: SAIA at Sunset and More

If you're able to tear yourself away from the 2012 Olympics coverage long enough to venture out you'll find an assortment of booze-focused events this week in Broward and Palm Beach counties. Of course, if you want to go out and still be able to watch televised handball you can find a list of South ... More >>

The Craft-Beer Craze Finally Finds Florida

Samuel Adams Octoberfest in Miami This Saturday

​If we're not underwater come Saturday, get out to Ponce Circle Park in Coral Gables (2800 Ponce de Leon Blvd.) for the inaugural Samuel Adams Octoberfest in Miami. The Octoberfest celebration starts at 2 p.m. and runs till midnight. It's the best excuse to drink in a public park since you were in ... More >>

Doggie Bag: This Week in Charlie

The Funky Buddha Brewery debuts this Saturday at 7 p.m. Be there!​Five of the truly creepiest cooking videos on YouTube for your enjoyment.Signature Chefs goes down tonight in Boca Raton.Get your Cuban sandwich fix at El Recreo Bakery.Here's a great recipe to try: Risotto with preserved lemon, asp ... More >>

Hyatt Launches New Burger Joint, I Swear

Customers love the Hyatt's new hamburgers.I'm not hallucinating, I promise. As if we hadn't said quite enough about hamburgers on this blog, I just got word that the Hyatt Bonaventure in Weston is introducing a new Burgers and Brews menu at their Banyan Restaurant, where they've put together a lineu ... 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 >>

Rainbow Colors

When you want to be mayor of Gayville, being straight is a political liability. But so is a crack habit.