Lots has been buzzing up in the Bold New City. Jacksonville is getting two new craft breweries in the coming months, and that is not including Engine 15 and Intuition Ale Works looking to open production breweries.

Veterans United:

According to the Jacksonville Daily Record, Navy veteran Ron Gamble is building a $1 million brewery in the Bay Meadows area of Jacksonville into a 10,000 square foot craft brewery. Gamble christened the brewery “Veterans United Craft Brewery,” an homage to his service to the country.

The brewery is located at 8999 Western Way, off of I-95 in Bay Meadows, an area chosen because it is not served by many existing breweries like San Marcos or Jacksonville Beach.

Gamble, a graduate of the Siebel Institute of Brewing Technology, plans to be open in May of 2014.

Zeta:

According to an article in Brown Distributing’s newsletter, Zeta, a bar and restaurant in Jacksonville Beach plans to open a seven-barrel brewery and begin brewing by the end of March.

Brewer Chris Prevatt is an alumnus of Siebel Brewing Institute has plans to create a core group of beers, then eventually a group of lagers. Zeta’s beers will be served onsite only at first then move to distribution. Prevatt has high hopes for his India pale ale, rye pale, chocolate coffee stout, honey brown ale at Zeta.

Zeta is located at 131 First Avenue North in Jacksonville Beach.