People like beer. As of the end of November, there are now 4,144 breweries in the country, topping the historic high of 4,131 breweries in 1873. The industry has grown tremendously in the last couple of years, and that influx of interest in drinking the good stuff has spurred interest…
Every week, we take a look at a craft beer brewed in Florida. Follow #FloridaBeerFriday for more reviews of Sunshine State brews. Get out there and #DrinkLocal. A couple of months ago, during the warmer summer months, I traveled out to the west coast of Florida to find some beers,…
Tonight, December 4th, is going to be pretty exciting for fans of Michigan beer in South Florida, as Short’s Brewing Company will be highlighted at Funky Buddha Brewery in Oakland Park with a tap takeover to commemorate the two breweries collaborating on a set of beers. It’s the first time in…
Opening a brewery is a long and arduous process. Considering the rapid rate at which they’ve been popping up in South Florida, that might come as a bit of a surprise. Alcohol, unsurprisingly, is a highly regulated industry, with local governments, the State of Florida, and the federal government all…
Every week, we take a look at a craft beer brewed in Florida. Follow #FloridaBeerFriday for more reviews of Sunshine State brews. Get out there and #DrinkLocal. This week, we’re taking a look at a canned offering from one of the west coast of Florida’s breweries, Darwin Brewing Company’s Circa…
Drink some cider with your Thanksgiving meal. There, I said it. But first, some history; then we get to the recommendations. “To the settlers of this new country, the apple represented the perfect homestead fruit,” Ben Watson writes, author of Cider, Hard and Sweet: History, Traditions, and Making Your Own. An…
Dark beers for a dark day. Looking for something interesting to do on Black Friday (you know, that shopping ‘holiday’ the day after Thanksgiving) but don’t want to wrestle with crowds fighting Battle Royale style over discounted plasma televisions or cheaply made plastic tablets? Why not take a trip down…
Every week, we take a look at a craft beer brewed in Florida. Follow #FloridaBeerFriday for more reviews of Sunshine State brews. Get out there and #DrinkLocal. Miami’s Concrete Beach Brewery has been supplying our market with bottled beers of Rica, their wheat IPA, and Stiltsville, their pilsner, for almost…
Mark the day: Friday, November 20th. That’s when Jupiter’s, and downtown Abacoa’s, Civil Society Brewing Company will begin to serve beers to the public, starting at 6 p.m. The facility has been in stages of construction and town council negotiation for the past year, and is now ready to open…
Perhaps the most sought after beer in the Samuel Adams lineup (or, wait, is it really Old Fezziwig? Yes, but I digress…) is the uniquely fashioned and extremely high alcohol content beer called Utopia. This semi-annual offering — this is the ninth batch they’ve brewed since 2002 — offers a…
The holidays are a busy time of year, so why not cross off part of your Christmas shopping to-do list by attending a holiday party this Saturday, November 21st (from 2 to 6 p.m.) at Barrel of Monks Brewery for their Father Christmas beer release party. The Boca Raton-based brewery…
Every week, we take a look at a craft beer brewed in Florida. Follow #FloridaBeerFriday for more reviews of Sunshine State brews. Get out there and #DrinkLocal. The inspiration for 42 Truths American Pale Ale from Funky Buddha, brewed exclusively for Tap 42, comes from the ancient Egyptians. The Forty-Two…
It’s interesting to watch how momentum builds behind a trend once things start to change. For the longest time, Floridian beer lovers fought for — and never thought they’d get – the 64 ounce growler that was the industry standard everywhere else in the country. Your average non-beer nerd had…
Starting this Wednesday, November 11th, the Funky Buddha Brewery in Oakland Park will no longer be just a massive production brewery, as the Craft Food Counter & Kitchen begins to serve food to taproom drinkers. Jeff Vincent, a South Carolinian and veteran head chef who most recently brought acclaim to…
Every week, we take a look at a craft beer brewed in Florida. Follow #FloridaBeerFriday for more reviews of Sunshine State brews. Get out there and #DrinkLocal. Labeled as “Miami’s first craft production brewery, in the heart of Wynwood Art District”, Wynwood Brewing Company has been producing quality beers from…
North Carolina brewers can’t get enough of Florida, it seems. Just this past August, Duck-Rabbit Brewery, which also hails from the Tar Heel State, opened up its distribution onto our fair shores. Now prominent Asheville brewery Green Man Brewery will be joining their companions at Duck-Rabbit, and other craft brewers…
So you like to drink all the wonderful and diverse beers that are available today? Why not up your beer experience by learning how to brew beer yourself at home during the aptly named Learn To Homebrew Day, an event-centered day established sixteen years ago by the American Homebrewers Association…
Every week, we take a look at a craft beer brewed in Florida. Follow #FloridaBeerFriday for more reviews of Sunshine State brews. Get out there and #DrinkLocal. Happy Friday, and welcome to the weekly beer feature where I take a look at a beer brewed right here in the Sunshine…
As craft beer continues to soar, the ‘big guys’ are positioning themselves into different segments of the beer market. Like this beer: a nitrogen widget filled IPA being made by the notorious perfect pour police at Guinness. When news came out in late September that this centuries old brewery was delving…
South Florida is frequently criticized for being slow to get catch. But when it comes to malted beverages, you don’t have to wait for brewers to ‘get with the program’ on hot trends. after this years Great American Beer Festival, as brewers in South Florida are already getting themselves onto…
Bees. Nature’s pollinators, honey makers, and wing shakers. They’re one of man’s greatest resources and one of the oldest insects that we exploited. But they are constantly under attack by pests, including the Varroa destructor mite: a parasite that infests a honey bee colony and believed to contribute to Colony…
Every week, we take a look at a craft beer brewed in Florida. Follow #FloridaBeerFriday for more reviews of Sunshine State brews. Get out there and #DrinkLocal. This week, I’m heading down to Pompano Beach to visit 26 Degree Brewing Company to sample their Pompano Heff, a wheat-oriented beer called…
