Do you like craft beer? How about your local craft beer bar? If you’re reading this right now, I hope you answered “yes” to both of these questions (or, frankly, I question your sanity). Why are we even asking such obvious questions? Because the Brewer’s Association, through their website CraftBeer.com,…

‘You drink my beer, but I’ll drink yours too!’ No, we’ll never get tired of screaming these (modified) “The Trooper” lyrics, from Iron Maiden’s album Piece of Mind. The Crimean War-themed hit single resonates as a icon of 1983 British metal. All of that musical background, though, is more suited…

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. There are days when I really…

The great thing about beer is that you can find it everywhere. It’s the ‘American’ drink; thanks to our beer-making founders from Britain, our welcoming arms towards the German immigrants in the 19th centuries, and it’s relatively blue-collar appeal in the beverage market. The city of Davie holds some of…

As summer begins to wind down (yes, it’s August already!), Fort Lauderdale’s craft beer mecca is pulling out all the stops to make sure that it doesn’t end with you thirsty. The Riverside Market is hosting events galore. Based on the success of their previous offering, Riverside is bringing back…

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. August 1st was National IPA Day…

Your local brewery wants you to join “The Club.” Due South Brewing Company, the Boynton Beach brewing powerhouse, will be opening its wide-embracing arms to 100 lucky people to join its just announced ‘members-only’ club with a membership rate of $75 a year. See also: – This Week in Beer…

For craft beer lovers, there’s nothing quite like cracking open a bottle of that highly sought-after imperial stout, or even simply a well-made pale ale, after a long day at work while sitting comfortably and decompressing. You’ve got the product down, but are you getting the most out of your…

Abacoa; it’s a “New Urbanist’s” dream of townhomes wrapped around a walkable central business core. It’s also just a pretty cool place to come hang out and watch spring training or minor league baseball. But this past Saturday saw, instead, the inaugural Jupiter Summer Fest, the first craft beer, wine…

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. On a rainy weekday afternoon, the…

July. The middle of summer. What better time to sit back and relax with a nice cold… pumpkin beer? That’s right, the staple fall seasonal style, a beer brewed with fresh (or, perhaps, flavorings of) pumpkin, has begun its slow creep earlier and earlier in the year, encroaching on territory…

Beer and sausages have been paired together for what seems like time immemorial. So why change things? Checkers Old Munchen, a Pompano German-American staple for years, doesn’t think we should either; every third Friday of the month, it puts on a German-beer-pairing dinner that will leave you full and satisfied…

The sky was cloudy and forecast for rain. It didn’t seem to bother anybody, though, as they made their way indoors to the Expo Center of the South Florida Fairgrounds in West Palm Beach for the inaugural Palm Beach Summer Beer Fest. Being South Florida’s only indoor festival was indeed…

Leave your sunscreen and hats at home this Saturday, and head indoors for the 2013 Palm Beach Summer Beer Fest. Over 150 beers will be featured at this event, held at the Expo Center on the South Florida Fairgrounds. Expect to imbibe brews from noted brew houses such as Pyramid,…

Not all tap takeovers are created equal. There, I said it. Some tap takeover events are little more than wait staff being confused as to the latest keg being tapped, oblivious to the types of beers being poured. Not at Tap 42. When they do a tap takeover, you’ll know…

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. Beer spilling out from the Tampa…

Florida is continuing its rise into the craft beer world, showing that we have the talent to be recognized as a ‘craft beer state’. Earlier this month, the 2013 U.S. Open Beer Championships were held in Atlanta, Georgia for the fifth time, and Florida breweries represented in the top three…

Beer geeks have come far and wide, from all corners of this great state, to descend upon Tampa and enter the Cigar City Brewing taproom with a nervous hand and unassuming slip of paper in order to exchange some hard-earned money for a few precious bottles of some of the…

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. Boynton Beach’s Due South Brewing Company…

The City of Brotherly Love became the City of Homebrewers this past weekend, when over 3,400 of the hobbyists descended upon Philadelphia for the 35th Annual National Homebrewers Conference. This yearly event is the pinnacle of competitive brewing, where homebrewers vie for bronze, silver, and gold medals in 28 beer,…

Nestled between a plethora of sea grape, sabal palms, and towering pines, among countless other varieties of grass, flower, and shrub, stands the comforting structure that is Peg’s Cantina — a venue of Mexican-inspired food that just so happens to house Gulfport’s own Cycle Brewing. Gulfport is a sleepy seaside…