Many breweries around Florida and the U.S. brew collaboration beers. Collaboration beers show friendship and camaraderie. When Tampa’s Cigar City Brewing decides to collaborate, they go all in and brew a large number of collaboration beers at once, sending their brewers around the U.S. and inviting other brewers to brew at their facility.
Cigar City currently has four collaboration beers they are working on:
Collaboration with Hoppin’ Frog Brewery of Akron, Ohio: “This one’s an imperial porter we plan to age on maple.”
Collaboration with JDub’s Brewing of Sarasota: “This one’s gonna be a hoppy dark lager!”
Return collaboration with Alesmith Brewing of San Diego: “This one is going to be a strong brown roggenbier. That means it’s brewed with a copious amounts of rye. Wayne generally doesn’t like brewing with rye, as it’s quite a pain on the ole brewhouse, but he has no problem doing it at another brewery.”
Vague announcement about a collaboration with another Ohio Brewery. “[The Hoppin’ Frog collab] is the first of two Ohio collabs coming soon.”