Each year, it seems like the Sunshine State’s craft breweries seem to earn more and more accolades despite the increase in the number of breweries in the U.S. 2023 is no exception as Florida’s breweries have brought home the hardware once again.
Press Release: Spring has officially sprung, and Dogfish Head Craft Brewery is celebrating the season with three new beer options, Utopias Barrel-Aged 120 Minute IPA, Mandarin & Mango Crush and the Off-Centered Variety Pack. Each of these off-centered packages is now making its way from coast-to-coast. Folks can track them down using Dogfish Head Fish Finder.
This past weekend launched Tampa Bay Beer Week 2023 with Sunday’s anchor event: Best Florida Beer’s Brewers Ball 2o23.
Brewers Ball is festival put on by the Best Florida Beer organization who presents awards for the results of their professional beer competition, judged previously.
Tampa Bay Brewing Company adds Coral Head IPA to year-round lineup February 17th
From their beginning, Tampa Bay Brewing Company (TBBC) has loved hops. From their first canned offering, Old Elephant Foot West Coast IPA, to their award-winning Reef Donkey Pale Ale, TBBC has favored hop-forward beers. Now, the brewery announces a new hop-forward beer coming to their year-round lineup.
Cigar City Brewing founder Joey Redner joins us in this episode of the BeerWise Podcast.
Growing up in the city of Tampa, Joey Redner built one of the most iconic breweries in Tampa’s history, but that is not what he intended when writing Cigar City Brewing’s initial business plan. Joey insists that he never intended for the brewery to grow as big as it did, and Joey shares what he has learned and some business thoughts on craft beer.
It was a fortunate coincidence that I had my recorder handy during August’s Florida Brewers Guild Conference, as both men were in attendance and had some time to sit down and talk about their journeys as brewers and record some of the names of brewers who have come and gone from Florida breweries. Ron and Madison talk about what it was like sharing information between breweries before email and the internet and other differences between their start in brewing and their current state of affairs.
In this episode, I am joined by Jim & Brittney Barrie of Barriehaus Beer Company.