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 beer that’s contract brewed up at the Brew Hub in Lakeland, the Keybilly Island Ale…

Game of Thrones fans will not want to miss this. To celebrate the release of the latest in the series of official Game of Thrones licensed beers from Brewery Ommegang, Eau Palm Beach will be hosting a beer paired fine dining experience on Tuesday, April 7. The latest beer, the…

Yesterday, Sawgrass Brewing in Coral Springs closed its doors for good.  Norm Lehman and his crew have closed as of April 1st according to industry sources. On Monday night. the website for Sawgrass contained a pop-up that marks the last day as the 31st of March and a phone call…

On Monday April 6th, craft beer’s own superstar Sam Calagione, founder of Dogfish Head Brewery, will be coming down to South Florida to brew some beer with Funky Buddha Brewery. The high profile brew day will be a repeat of last year, when the Funky Buddha crew traveled up to…

How was your Saturday? Was it cool, calm, and full of Belgian styled beer? If it was, you were probably hanging out with hundreds of other beer enthusiasts in Boca Raton for the grand opening celebrations of Barrel of Monks Brewing, which held a festival this past Saturday March 28th…

It’s #FloridaBeerFriday, when we take a look at a beer brewed in the Sunshine State, giving analysis to the burgeoning craft-beer movement of Florida. Welcome back! This week, we’re taking a look at Up Top! IPA from Jdub’s Brewing Company, who hails from Sarasota. Owner Jeremy Joerger (we see what he…

Those great ideas you get when you’ve had one too many really aren’t all that great, as two St. Patrick’s Day revelers will soon discover. Boca Raton’s Kapow! Noodle Bar and The Dubliner were the subject to an alleged theft by two white men, pictured, who made off with over $750…

This past weekend, two South Florida breweries shipped up to Boston to participate in the Extreme Beer Fest, a festival that draws breweries and crowds from across the country together to highlight the boundary pushing beers that are being produced by American craft brewers.  Oakland Park’s Funky Buddha Brewery and…

Boca Raton, and South Florida at large, get prepared for a uniquely niche brewery to hold its grand opening this coming Saturday March 28th: the Belgian-centric Barrel of Monks Brewery. Starting at 11 a.m. and lasting until 5pm, the new brewery, which has been holding soft open days the past…

Every March, the Brewers Association (BA) release figures on data it has accumulated over the past year that represents the growth (or, rarely, decline) of the craft beer industry. BA is the trade association for the little guys, who are defined as being small, independent and traditional. The state of…

It’s touted as a “crazy hoppy” double India Pale Ale. Florida Man, a new beer from Cigar City Brewing, seeks to present an homage to the infamous Twitter account. It’s an account that works on so many levels, highlighting the ridiculous amount of bizarre crime that occurs in this state…

This week we’re grabbing some new cans off the shelf, sampling some Florida breweries who have just recently begun canning their beers. One of those is 3 Daughters Brewing out of St. Pete, which celebrated its one-year anniversary last December and started canning their beers the previous month. 3 Daughters Brewing…

By all accounts, it appears that this year’s Hunahpu’s Day, that crazy annual beer geek festival that takes place every March in Tampa at Cigar City Brewing, was a success. For one upcoming South Florida brewery, it was a personal success as well. 3 Sons Brewing Company, a brewery in…

It’s #FloridaBeerFriday, when we take a look at a beer brewed in the Sunshine State, giving analysis to the burgeoning craft-beer movement of Florida. This week we’re heading up to Palm Beach Gardens to find ourselves a new watering hole that goes by the name of Twisted Trunk Brewing, which…

Every year, the Best Florida Beer Championships are held to both promote the growing craft beer scene in the Sunshine State and to provide an avenue for the fun-yet-competitive nature that accompanies brewing. That competitiveness is seen from lowly homebrew competitions to the Great American Beer Festival, and for Floridians,…

Followers of the local home brewing competition scene have heard of Opus Ales, a group of men from South Florida who have been entering festivals and sharing their creations for the past few years. Manny Jannes, Jesus (Chuby) Rascon, Randy Llerena, and Jose Torres have made the move into territory…

It’s #FloridaBeerFriday, when we take a look at a beer brewed in the Sunshine State, giving analysis to the burgeoning craft-beer movement of Florida. This week we’re taking a trip down south to the islands where winter forgot, to the ‘Village of Islands’ known as Islamorada, where a brewery is…

South Florida’s craft beer scene is exploding faster than any sane person can keep up with, which is why it’s high time someone laid out where your favorite local brews are being created. That someone is us. We’ve got you covered on who’s making what, from Tequesta all the way…

March 25 will see the expansion of Funky Buddha Brewery into a market that is seen by some across the nation as one of the best beer cities in the country: the Tampa Bay area. Places like New Port Richey, Brooksville, Clearwater, St. Petersburg, Tampa, Sarasota, Venice, and Punta Gorda…

It’s #FloridaBeerFriday, when we take a look at a beer brewed in the Sunshine State, giving analysis to the burgeoning craft-beer movement of Florida. The last time we stopped by the Mack House, that three barrel brewery in Davie and home to the Holy Mackerel beer brand, we took a…

Aspiring homebrewers in Broward will now be able to find a local resource to learn how to brew. Craft Beer Cartel, located in the Riverside neighborhood of Fort Lauderdale, will begin offering a monthly brewing class, with the first beginning on Saturday February 28th from 1 to 4 p.m. Led…