Sierra Nevada Brewing Company’s road-show styled national beer festival, Beer Camp Across America, kicked off its nationwide tour with its southeast event this past weekend at Curtis Hixon Park in downtown Tampa. The fest, which ran on Saturday, June 4 from 5 to 10 p.m., featured breweries from all across…
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 taking you into Palm Beach Gardens to Twisted Trunk Brewing to highlight Cloud 9, their foudre aged saison. This is…
Funky Buddha Brewery has been growing like a teenager since they opened the doors to their Oakland Park production facility in 2013, and the time has come for another birthday celebration. The South Florida brewery, most famously known for their highly rated and coveted Maple Bacon Coffee Porter (which won…
Bobby Gordash is a name that you should be familiar with if you’ve delved even a tiny bit into the history of craft beer in South Florida. Now the industry veteran is knee-deep into the process of opening up his own brewing facility in Pompano Beach. Gordash won the 1996…
Civil Society Brewing released four-packs of two of their flagship hop-forward beers this past Saturday to a crowd of beer enthusiasts that didn’t mind waiting in line to snap up their allotment of cans. Abacoa’s downtown brewery brought in a canning line to package up 16 ounce cans of Pulp, their…
It’s kitschy. It’s fun. It’s a one of a kind tiki celebration — and it’s all going down in Fort Lauderdale next month. Yep, it’s the Hukilau. The annual Polynesian pop-lovers party known nationwide will be returning to Broward County for yet another summertime extravaganza celebrating tiki culture, cocktails, art,…
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. Collaborations are a time for brewers to get together and come up with something fun and exciting to brew. Or to simply reconnect…
Women-centric High Heel Brewing is coming to Florida in mid-June, bringing with it a duo of craft beers aiming to fill what master brewer Kristi McGuire calls “a gap in the market” of product that targets women. “There isn’t a beer that’s speaking to them,” she says. It may come…
For the Fort Lauderdale foodies who remember it, The Grateful Palate was the type of restaurant where you went to experiment with your taste buds, try new foods, and have an eventful evening out. Today, it’s no longer a standalone restaurant, but a catering company and private event space for…
This summer is looking to be all about the melon: watermelon to be precise, and it’s going right into your beer. That’s right, everyone’s favorite member of the family Cucurbitaceae (you know, those vine-like flowering plants that the Japanese like to make into cubes) is poised to take 2016 by…
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. Let’s keep the IPA train rolling from last week, and head out to Brewzzi in Boca Raton to sample one of their brewmaster’s…
If you love rum, tiki drinks, and live music and don’t want to travel outside Broward County to find all three in one spot, you’re in for a surprise. Later this fall, you’ll be able to find them together in a new shared venue. Fort Lauderdale-based South Florida Distillers and…
The up-until-now undefeated four-and-oh host brewery Barrel of Monks Brewing fell to one of South Florida’s titans of brewing, Due South Brewing Company, last night in the fifth of a series of monthly beer and food pairing events slated to roll on for all of 2016. The event pits two…
It’s the ultimate way to recycle brewers spent grain and save animals: using the husks and grist of brewers barley to make biodegradable and edible six pack rings that hold cans of beer. (Maybe restaurants along Hollywood Beach should look into now that an obscure law banning non-biodegradable packaging east…
It’s official: Lake Worth has welcomed C.W.S. Craft Cocktails & Kitchen to the fold, the area’s highly-anticipated craft cocktail bar and restaurant. The bar quietly launched a soft opening Thursday, May 12, and will be offering drinks and a limited food menu through next week. In February, 3J Hospitality founders…
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 traveled into the heart of one of Fort Lauderdale’s industrial areas to visit Khoffner Brewery USA and try out their…
If you love sour beers — and lament the fact you can’t find them brewed locally north of Funky Buddha Brewery in Oakland Park and other sour-crazy spots like J. Wakefield Brewing in Wynwood — then lament no more. Due South Brewing Co. in Boynton Beach is on the verge…
No one can deny: South Florida’s craft beer scene has changed tremendously in the last six years. Just think, back in 2010 during the first American Craft Beer Week (ACBW), there were only a handful of brewpubs across Palm Beach, Broward, or Miami-Dade counties. Now, just over a half-decade later, figures…
Your weekends are about to get crafty with a duo of brewery anniversary parties – and they’re being thrown by neighbors. First up this coming weekend is their fourth anniversary party at Due South Brewing Company on Saturday May 14. Only four years ago Due South opened its doors in…
This past weekend, on the evening of May 6 in the Terrace Ballroom at the Philadelphia Convention Center, Funky Buddha Brewery took home a gold medal at the World Beer Cup; an international event awarding the best in the industry that takes place every two years. With over 200 highly qualified…
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. I walked into Devour Brewing Company on a Sunday afternoon looking for a beer to sample and review, and found myself face-to-face with…
Here’s a perfect pairing for you: Colada’s Tres Leches waffles topped with guava whipped cream and a cold pint of Funky Buddha’s French Toast American brown ale. It’s like two brunch breakfasts in one. It’s a pairing you’ll only find at Colada’s one-year anniversary party taking place Saturday, May 7…
