Tampa’s Cigar City Brewing has been in the news lately for helping to put Tampa at the top of a list of emerging beer cities. CCB Brewmaster Wayne Wambles has gone to beer camp with Sierra Nevada as he helps to celebrate the opening of their Asheville, NC brewery. Cigar City will soon be available on Carnival Cruise Lines, and now Cigar City is expanding their tasting room again.
According to CCB owner Joey Redner, CCB is “building out the space in the original brewery. Basically adding a/c and laying the space out better to accommodate larger groups.” This change will cause a cancellation of brewery tours until construction is complete. “Unfortunately, due to the construction we are going to have to cancel all brewery tours from August 1st-October 1st. The tasting room will remain open for business as usual during this time-frame.”
This news comes on the heels of the release date of 2014 bottling of Marshal Zhukov’s Imperial Stout. Distribution will hit on “August 1st! Bottles will go on sale in our tasting room on Monday, August 4th.” As a final comment, Cigar City posts that “It’s drinking good.”