Press Release:
Crafted Artisan Meadery® today announced the release of Criminal KLP. This collaboration mead was developed with Tampa, Florida-based Cigar City Cider and Mead, a sister company of Cigar City Brewing. It will be available at Crafted’s tap room in Mogadore, Ohio, Cigar City Cider and Mead’s tasting room in Ybor City and also released for limited distribution.
While Wednesday was the kickoff for South Florida’s funky bunch, Funky Buddha Brewery, Cigar City Cider and Mead has one more event for Tampa Bay Beer Week, a tapping of several new and interesting cider treatments.
While Florida’s craft breweries seem to be forever growing in number, counting the ranks of Florida’s mead producers and Florida’s cider makers would not event require the use of one’s toes. While few are looking to join the ranks of Florida’s honey wine and apple beverage makers, the crew of Cigar City Brewing has added another business to the family: Cigar City Cider and Mead.
From the group collaboration that brought Ghost Stories Braggot to Tampa Bay, Brad Dahlofer and Jeff Marshall from B. Nektar Meadery and Todd Strauss from Cigar City Cider and Mead are collaborating on a sour cider.
Recently Cigar City Cider and Mead teased a photo of the hearing notice outside of their new home in Ybor City. As the cidery and meadery continues to grow, the company announced that they had moved their tanks from Keel and Curley Winery last week, and now CCC&M has released some more photos of their future hive.
Cigar City Cider and Mead has caused waves since announcing that they will be getting a building of their own and a new home. After being hosted by Keel and Curley Winery since their inception, the cidery and meadery will be moving to the Ybor City Historic District, according to the location finder on a recent Facebook Post.
Fresh off the heels of raising over $55,000 in just over a day for his new brewery project in Miami, brewer Johnathan Wakefield is not content to rest on his laurels.