Islamorada Beer Company tasting room opens this weekend

Miami in general and the Florida Keys in particular are on the verge of pouring a river of new beers from new breweries. With numerous beer companies in different stages of planning, there will hopefully be a time in the future when the Florida Keys are a destination for beer tourists in addition to every other kind of tourist that travels to the Southernmost Point in the U.S.

Funky Buddha Brewery

Funky Buddha’s expansion

There seems to be a race going on in South Florida. Not a cutthroat, winner-take-all race, but instead a friendly race to see who is going to be South Florida’s top craft beer producer. With a slew of new breweries looking to bring their liquid wares to the long bereft South Florida masses, many of the existing breweries are blazing a trail for the newbies to follow.