Each Black Friday, national breweries (and one in particular) concentrate their efforts on trying to capture beer drinkers’ attention with barrel-aged beers and variants of the barrel-aged beers to try and grab drinkers attention.
This year, though, the atmosphere and environment around craft beer and breweries is different. Like many previous years, a good number of Florida’s breweries have shown themselves to excelat barrel-aging, on par or exceeding the skills and creativity of those who work for the large, multinational breweries. In a year where craft beer is working hard to win over every drinker it can so that craft beer can continue, consider looking to one of your neighboring breweries and showing them some support on Black Friday.
In the neighborly spirit, here is a list of brewers who are releasing special beers, including many barrel-aged specialties this Black Friday:
Atlantic Beach’s Reve Brewing is hosting their annual Black Friday Holiday Recovery Event.
This event is the day when “We open at 9am and serve breakfast pizzas, encourage a bottle share, have a local coffee roaster espresso pop-up bar, and have a bunch of stouts on tap.
This year’s beers are:
Reve BA Mocha Stout, aged on coffee beans and milk chocolate
Reve BA Biscoffee Stout, aged on biscoff cookies and coffee beans
As well as a few stouts we’ve saved from earlier this year.”
Dania Beach’s 3 Sons Brewing is releasing their Broward County Brand Stout on Black Friday.
Fort Myers’s Point Ybel Brewing Company is releasing their Sanibel Island Rum County Stout. “BLACK FRIDAY – THIS COMING FRIDAY we are releasing
RUM COUNTY Rum Barrel Aged Imperial Stout (11%) – We aged this Imperial Stout for 14 months in freshly emptied Siesta Key Rum Distillery Spiced Rum Barrels. Nuanced notes of Rum Spices, Chocolate, & Vanilla.
Available in 500ml bottles ($26) on 11/29.
Opening EARLY (12pm).”
Jacksonville Beach’s Southern Swells Brewing is hosting a triple can release. The brewery is releasing Coconut Karate (a coconut version of their Karate In The Garage hazy IPA), Breakout Stout, and Beach Light.
Jacksonville’s Aardwolf Brewing Company is hosting their annual cellar raid on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. “BLACK OUT WEDNESDAY – 11.28.24! Join us Thanksgiving Eve as we raid the ‘Wolf’s Cellars and bring out some Classic Draft & Package Brews!'”
Orlando’s Zymarium Meadery is having a Black Friday Sale and breaking into their bottle cellar.
Get a free pour of mead with every bottle purchase
Buy 5 bottles get a free flight
Buy 12 bottles get a free Flight of the Bumblebee (15 unique meads, parties 2 or more)
Get a free pour of mead with every $35 gift card purchase
Give the gift of a flight!
Get a free $20 gift card with every $100 gift card purchase
Black Friday Only: At 5pm we’ll be putting out two cases of different bottles from our 2022/2023 vintage cellar, every bottle will be $42.99! (Our vintage bottles range from $50 to $100 typically.)
Orlando’s Sideward Brewing is hosting their annual Black Mass Beer and Merchandise Drop on Wednesday, November 27th. BLACK MASS
BEER + MERCH DROP
NOV 27 – 11am
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We built a helluva day for ya. three beers dropping, a surprise lil merch drop, plus Austin is pulling out the smoker and putting ribs on special. here are the deets:
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draft + 4pks to go:
MEN ONLY GET FLOWERS AT THEIR FUNERAL – imperial stout with Thai bananas, cinnamon, coffee and vanilla. Contains lactose. 12% ABV
PROJECTIONS – a toasty winter lager made with Florida rye and new age French hops. 5.2% ABV
YACHT MONEY – NEIPA made with Citra, Nectaron, Riwaka, Citra Cryo & Hyperboost 8%
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Palmetto’s Corporate Ladder Brewing is hosting “In The Black: A Barrel-Aged Beer Event.”
Join us Black Friday November 29th at 12pm for a special barrel aged beer event! We’ll be tapping some draft only exclusives as well as releasing some brand new barrel aged beer in package and on draft!
New Releases Dropping:
“BA In The Black Imperial Stout 16% ABV | 500ml Bottle
Brewed in collaboration with Xul Beer Company this Imperial Stout is aged in Willett Family Estate 9 year bourbon barrels & conditioned on peanut butter cream & vanilla granola.
BA Executive Suite Imperial Stout 14.87% ABV | 500ml Bottle
Imperial Stout aged in Old Elk Wheated & Willett Family Estate 9 Year bourbon barrels
& conditioned on double marshmallow & comoros vanilla beans.
BA Amalgamation Imperial Stout 15.4% ABV | 500ml Bottle
Imperial Stout aged in Old Elk Wheated & Willett Family Estate 9 Year bourbon barrels &
conditioned on double marshmallow & comoros vanilla beans, peanut butter cream & vanilla granola.
We will also have an extensive draft list of Barrel Aged Stouts & Fruit, including some special guest barrel aged tappings! Check out our event on Facebook for the full draft list!”
St. Petersburg’s Cycle Brewing is hosting a massive Black Friday sale on their 22oz bottles for Black Friday, allowing savings from $5 to $40 on certain bottles. All 22 oz bottles will only be $20.
This deal is only valid from Nov 29th – Dec 1st, in person, at the taproom. This only applies to our 22 oz bottles.
This is the PERFECT time to stock up on holiday gifts, birthday gifts, or those blank spaces in your beer collection.
Tallahassee’s Deep Brewing Company is releasing Mayday – Peanut Butter and Hazelnut Imperial Stout along with other draft specialties from their bag of tricks in celebration of Black Rye Day at the brewery
From Deep Brewing Company:
We are adding a new wrinkle to RYE DAY this year!:
AN IMPERIAL STOUT BOTTLE RELEASE!
Coming in port is “MAYDAY” – a Nutter-Butter inspired dark beauty that clocks in at 12.5% and features heavy flavors of everyone’s favorite peanut butter cookie.
This is the FIRST time we have ever brewed this beer, and it came out SOOOOO well, we knew right away that we had to put it in bottles!
But don’t let the big bottle news distract you from the other four amazing beers that we have coming on tap for BLACK RYE DAY as well:
** DENIZEN OF THE DEEP Black Rye IPA
** TANKSGIVING Cranberry Sour Ale
** YAMN GOOD Dessert Amber Ale (made with actual Yams!)
** ROLLIN’ DEEP Nut-Roll Inspired Brown Ale
So whether you’re shopping that day, in-between store trips, or just avoiding the Black Friday crowd altogether … add a stop at Deep to your list!
Tampa’s Angry Chair Brewing is releasing THREE beers for y’all in package and on draft in addition to an already killer tap list full of goodies. All beers will be available at open, and available while supplies last on a first come first served basis. We will announce limits the day of.
𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐥
14% ABV // 16oz // $13 each // Limit TBD
We took our classic fan favorite Adjunct Trail and gave it a holiday spin! This imperial stout is laden with decadent toasted coconut, and then hit with the perfect amount of peppermint mocha coffee. The result is a holiday treat in every sip.
𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐥-𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐧 𝐅𝐥𝐮𝐟𝐟
13% ABV // 187mL // $20 each // Limit TBD
This imperial stout was aged for 38 months in a single peanut butter whiskey barrel, maturing while picking up notes of peanut brittle, bourbon candied peanut, and whipped skrewball mousse. We then added silky chocolate, and gobs of marshmallow fluff for the perfect balance of nostalgia. Does contain lactose.
𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐥 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐡
12% ABV // 750ml // $40 each // Limits TBD
Aged for 22 months in Wild Turkey Bourbon barrels, we then took this Russian Imperial Stout and treated it with a massive amount of toasted coconut, the perfect amount of @theblackpanthercoffee 1985 Espresso Roast (our fave), and a kiss of cinnamon. Coquito waves, Cuban Espresso, cinnamon dolce perfection. Does NOT contain Lactose.
Tampa’s Magnanimous Brewing is releasing two barrel-aged beers and two hazy IPAs on Black Friday, or Bleak Friday, as the brewery refers to it.
“In addition to All That Remains Is Mosaic & Welcome to Planet Nelson in cans, we are releasing two barrel aged bottles.
Head of the Table
Our annual holiday release with Pecans & Vanilla. This year’s batch rested in an Elijah Craig 19 barrel for 24 months. Tons of Pecan flavor with deep rich vanilla give a decadent and elegant drinking experience.
Wandering Infinity
This Imperial Stout aged in a Stagg Jr barrel for 28 months . No adjuncts needed!
Bottles & draft will be available for purchase.”
Tampa and Trinity’s Barriehaus Beer Company is continuing their 12 Days of Beermas.
The brewery has a holiday tradition:
“Snag your Beermas Passport from your friendly BarrieHaus beertender to start your brewtastic journey into BEERMAS!!! For drinking each unique beer you will receive a sticker on your personal Beermas passport which can be redeemed for prizes at the end of Beermas. Each Friday & Saturday leading up to Christmas, we will release a limited-edition holiday beer you won’t want to miss out on. Each Beermas beer will be available in both our Tampa and Trinity locations.”
Please check with the brewery on social media or over the phone before attending a release, as details, bottle limits, etc. may change closer to Black Friday.
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