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. Sometimes a beer comes along with…

You may have noticed a little extra tie-dye on your tap handles as of late, as Atlanta’s signature Sweetwater Brewing has made its way down to the South Florida market. The 15 year old brewery has made a push into southeastern markets in the past few years, with an expansion…

Tucked into the center of deeply residential Fort Lauderdale, Riverside Market has made a name for itself in the past years as the place to go if you’re looking for craft beer from around the world and want to enjoy it in the most casual of settings, outside the stereotypical…

American Craft Beer Week officially begins May 13 and runs through the 19; a whole seven days worth of events and special tappings to keep your taste buds excited and your liver in a state of confusion. This year marks the eighth consecutive week by the Brewer’s Association. As they…

Travelling to the Due South brewery is always an exceptional experience. It seems at times to be almost an illicit prospect, what with having to find parking around slabs of marble destined to be someone’s kitchen countertop and making your way towards an enormous industrial warehouse. But it’s that antithesis…

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. This week, it’s time to head…

Are you a Cigar City fan? Have you noticed that cans of their most popular brew, Jai Alai IPA is missing from store shelves? Seems that the popularity has thrown the invisible hand of supply and demand into a frenzy. Rumors have been swirling for months about the lack of…

You’ve been thinking about it for some time now. You like beer, you like drinking it, and you like the good stuff, and you’ve always thought about making your own. Well, today is National Homebrew Day, and if that isn’t the kick in the pants to get you off your…

It was raining, but actually fairly cool for a Friday in early May in Delray Beach. Just north of the Pineapple Grove, a low lying seafoam green building inconspicuously houses a spot where people gather to get away from the nights of pretentiousness of the Avenue, the recently opened 3rd…

With Cinco de Mayo coming up on Sunday, does the idea of downing Mexican beer get you… well, down? Firstly, there’s a lot more than Corona to be had. If you want to spice up your celebrations but still be true to local brew, why not try a Florida alternative…

Florida Agriculture Literacy Day was this week and, if you’re like us, everything we read about makes us think of beer. So what better time to learn a little bit about it? After all, it’s made of things you grow in nature, and possibly your backyard. Bill Manley, of Sierra…

Ever crack open a bottle of beer that smells and tastes past its prime? That beer is probably “skunked,” which will make it taste quite awful. (Beer nerd alert: “Skunked” or “light struck” beers occur when isomerized alpha acids imparted from hops get bombarded with ultraviolet radiation. That reaction produces…

For the first time, this humble writer can put the words ‘party animals’ down and mean it with literal truth. That’s right, it’s Brew at the Zoo time! The inaugural event at the Palm Beach Zoo welcomed one thousand area beer aficionados (in both quality and quantity) to come hang…

The bar is filled with the aroma of fresh hops. The brew team is hard at work and in full force, making additions to one of the massive fermenters that dominates the rear of the space. Locals already line the bar at 3 p.m. in the afternoon; part of me…

Drinking beer in this state a decade ago was a bland affair. Crates of beer-like water shipped in from the flat grainy states of the Midwest dominated shelves and beer coozies alike. When I first sampled a macrobrewed lager at a tender age, I thought to myself, “Who would WANT…

This past Saturday, about a dozen homebrewers from around the area converged on the parking lot of the Little House in Boynton Beach to brave the fickle Florida weather, show off their brews, and enter into a friendly competition. Owner Chrissy Benoit (previously of Havana Hideaway in Lake Worth) and…

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…

Friday’s here, so it’s time for beer. As a native Floridian, there’s nothing quite like taking a lazy afternoon after work and either hanging out on the patio with a cold beer in hand or heading down to the pub to talk about the weeks’ events. In the past, we’ve…

When you crack open a cold one, or have it served to you in a frosted glass, you’re expecting to drink beer, right? But what about heavy metals? No we’re not talking about Iron Maiden, but arsenic. Arsenic, people! A recent report claims that high levels of arsenic has been…

Release nights are always a crowd pleaser at the Funky Buddha Lounge & Brewery, Boca Raton’s current flagship brew lounge. Fifty to 60 people, packed three deep at the bar, managed to find enough room for themselves in anticipation of the beers to be tapped. You could feel the excitement…