Rebel House mixologist Kris Bahamondes is a true bar man. He can mix a drink better than we’ve seen in a long time, and has some innate way of teaching you a brilliant new bar trick while tasting something truly unique — all in just one happy hour sitting. It’s…
This summer (go ahead and use your best Don LaFontaine voice), the Florida Beer Co. is looking to introduce a pilsner beer to its lineup: Sunshine State Pils. This pilsner will join the family of lagered beers from FBC, including Florida Lager, and beers of the Key West and Hurricane…
Around 70 people showed up this past Saturday for the spring-break-themed homebrew competition at Riverside Market in Fort Lauderdale, where local amateur brewers (in the noncommercial sense) tapped more than a dozen kegs to compete for cash and bragging rights. Myself, Lauren Bowen of Harpoon Brewery, Adam Fine of Native…
It may have started elsewhere, but the movement is starting to take flight in Broward and Palm Beach Counties: classic cocktails are making a comeback. Whether its a dry martini, a stirred Manhattan, a bitter Negroni, a biting Sazerac, or even just a perfect Old-Fashioned, the popular drinks of yesteryear…
It’s #FloridaBeerFriday. Every Friday, we take a look at a beer brewed in the Sunshine State, giving analysis to the burgeoning craft beer movement of Florida. It was only five short years ago that Joey Redner put together a project on a small road called Spruce Street. Little did anyone…
Summer is here which means a proliferation of fruit-tinged beers will hit the market in the next few months. Funky Buddha celebrates the marriage of fruit and hops with its next bottle release – More Moro Blood Orange IPA. See also: Funky Buddha’s Small Batch Bottling Of A Fan Favorite,…
Even though Game of Thrones has its own official beer, every television show needs a proper, matching cocktail. Leave it to Stolichnaya, then, to come up with one: the Mother of Dragons cocktail. It’s not endorsed by Game of Thrones and not available anywhere, it’s just a drink anyone can…
Nestled between New Port Richey and Land O’ Lakes in Pasco County lies a small town called Odessa. With slightly more than 7,000 residents, it’s the quintessential “sleepy suburban town.” Unlike most small towns, though, this one has a brewery: Big Storm Brewery. Big Storm is the product of Mike…
You need certain skills and attributes to make it in a field in which you deal with people on a constant basis. From bubbly salespeople to friendly customer service representative (OK, that’s actually rarely the case these days) to kindhearted nurses to affable service industry professionals, it takes a certain…
Prepare for more dogs in yellow raincoats: Sea Dog Brewing Co. will celebrate the grand opening of its new brewery in Clearwater next week. It’s been in soft-open mode for about a month now. The Maine-based craft beer producer is adding to its Florida holdings, with this newest location joining…
Game of Thrones fans, prepare yourselves. Brewery Ommegang’s third installment in its series of licensed Game of Thrones beers is set to be released today, Monday, March 31. Fire and Blood, as the beer is called, is a red ale complete with some interesting ingredients like licorice root and ancho…
On Sunday, the season finale of AMC’s The Walking Dead airs and, if it’s anything like last season (or any random episode, by the way), expect a few surprise deaths of cast regulars and a crapload of walkers getting chopped in half, shot, and generally mangled in the most gristly…
It’s #FloridaBeerFriday. Every Friday, we take a look at a beer brewed in the Sunshine State, giving analysis to the burgeoning craft beer movement of Florida. We’ve covered it for ‘Maple Bacon Coffee Day’ in January. It’s been hailed in various national publications, including Draft magazine. It is a monumental…
The beer landscape in Florida is once again under pressure from state legislators. This time, the pressure comes from the Senate side of our bicameral state government. Though House bill 1329 was defeated this week with a ‘strike all’ amendment, Senate bill 7120 aims to cover some controversial ground. Passed…
There is no time of day that excites us the way happy hour does. It not only involves cheap drinks and inexpensive eats, but it washes away the pain of the workday. Numerous options for after work intoxication abound luckily; however, you can never have enough of a good thing…
Sure, you like craft beer. Maybe you even like it a lot. Maybe you like it so much, you can detect the differences among Samuel Smith’s Oatmeal Stout, Rogue’s Shakespeare Oatmeal Stout, and Founders Oatmeal Stout just from a whiff of the nose. If the latter sounds like you, chances…
Let’s be honest here: Scotch is an intimidating drink. Like a Grand Cru Bordeaux, it elicits images of upper-crust socialites dressed to the nines, sipping ridiculously expensive beverages out of snifters in front of a fireplace framed by elegant Afghan hounds. Or, at least, distinguished gentlemen like Ron Burgundy. Point…
Looking for a music event to ring in spring that also happens to feature only beers brewed in Florida? If so, your search is over this weekend, when Ales for Anglers hits the music/fishing/craft beer trifecta. Organized by the Snook & Gamefish Foundation (a group that seeks to aid in…
The 11th annual Extreme Beer Fest was held this past weekend in the beer hub of the universe; Boston. Hosted by BeerAdvocate and sponsored by Delaware’s Dogfish Head Brewery, the festival aims to bring together breweries whose beers push the boundaries of brewing. In that vein, two of our favorite…
It’s been a busy month in Tallahassee, and we’ve got some updates to the ongoing sausage making political debates happening that will have an effect on the Florida beer industry. With the release of Brewers Association data regarding the state of the craft brewing industry, the interest group who serves…
It’s #FloridaBeerFriday. Every Friday, we take a look at a beer brewed in the Sunshine State, giving analysis to the burgeoning craft beer movement of Florida. Welcome back beer fans. We’re heading out to the store and picking up a can from the latest South Florida brewery to begin full…
When it comes to national recognition of Florida, the conversation inevitably turns to Bugs Bunny memes or Florida Man. For the beer world, though, the spotlight was just turned on us in a major way — a good way! The March/April issue of Draft Magazine, a 7-year-old bimonthly tome of…
