7venth Sun Brewery’s Devon Kreps joins the BeerWise Podcast
In this episode Devon Kreps of 7venth Sun Brewery joins the BeerWise Podcast to talk about her 10-year journey with 7venth Sun.
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7venth Sun Brewery’s 10th anniversary party starts on 1/7
In the current climate, with brewery closing announcements seeming to come on a regular basis, brewery anniversary celebrations are always a welcome reminder that many of Florida’s craft breweries are going strong. 7venth Sun Brewery’s is this kind of celebration – one where it is the perfect time to celebrate the beer, the brewery, and the people that make this operation run.
It also helps that the brewery is dropping cans of a new beer, this one a collaboration with Pennsylvania’s Voodoo Brewery.
From 7venth Sun:
IT’S BEEN 10 YEARS OF BEERS FOR 7VENTH SUN!
We’ll be celebrating Friday and Saturday at BOTH locations with special performances by our friends Jon Ditty and Stick Martin in Dunedin! More details are below!
BOTH LOCATIONS:
Friday 1/7 – Collaboration Bottle & Can Drop
-Cigar City / 7venth Sun Collaboration – Foedre Aged Sours Bottle Drop (Details TBA)
-Voodoo Brewing / 7venth Sun Collaboration – Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout Series Can Drop (Info below)
Friday & Saturday 1/7 & 1/8:
Nostalgic Series – Draft and Can Drop
-The Return of FYA
-The Return of Intergalactic Pale Ale
-The Return of Mango FYA
Nostalgic Series – Draft Specialty Treatments
-Kiwi Cherry Coconut Sour
-Makin Love At Midnight
-Pearvocative
-Pinkberry Muffin
Release of New TBA Draft Specialty Treatments
MERCH DROP:
Return of our most requested blast-from-the-past Tee-Shirts
DUNEDIN ONLY:
Friday 1/7:
7pm – 9:30pm: Special Performance by Stick Martin & Jon Ditty
Saturday 1/8:
2pm – 4pm: Bottle Share!
Bring a 7venth Sun classic, or any of your favorite beers to share with fellow beer buffs!
BEER DROP:
Friday, in collaboration with Voodoo Brewery, a three-part Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout series: EDMOND’S HEIRLOOM.
Edmond’s Heirloom PNG – with Tahitensis vanilla from Papua New Guinea (PNG). Sweet and rich, with subtle notes of Caramel, Chocolate, and dried Cherries.??
Edmond’s Heirloom V – with Vanatu vanilla (V). Powerful vanilla aromatics with notes of Nutmeg and Ginger.??
Edmond’s Heirloom TE – with Tahitensis vanilla from Ecuador (TE). Tastes like delectable Butter Cake and has notes of sweet Cherry!??
This series honors Edmond Albius who was a 12-year-old slave when he invented the pollination process that catapulted the vanilla industry, which is still used now, 180 years later. While he solved a botanical mystery that stumped the greatest botanists of the time and enriched the country of Reunion with the explosion of its newest export, he received no compensation except his release from slavery, unfairly dying in poverty at the age of 51.
We want to pay tribute to his extraordinary contribution with these three whiskey & bourbon barrel-aged beers, showcasing different varietals from the only species of orchid that produces an edible fruit.
Available at both 7venth Sun locations Friday for our 10 year anniversary in 8-ounce cans. We can’t wait to party with you all!
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7venth Sun Brewery celebrates six years
Both locations of 7venth Sun Brewery are celebrating the company’s anniversary this weekend.
The business held its grand opening January 7th, 2012, six years ago this Sunday, and they recently opened a new location in the Seminole Heights neighborhood of Tampa. The celebration will be taking place in both locations with a 32, 7venth Sun beers on tap in Tampa and 14 in Dunedin. Additionally, an anniversary one-off can release of Sakura Obscura, a pomegranate cherry Berliner-style Weisse and Electric Wizard, an IPA heavily hopped with Citra and loaded up with Strawberries will take place.
When: this Sunday 1/7 at noon
Where: 6809 N Nebraska Ave, Tampa & 1012 Broadway, Dunedin
7venth Sun & Creature Comforts’s collaboration, Southerly Love, to return soon
Press Release: Creature Comforts Brewing Company’s first collaboration with 7venth Sun Brewery, Southerly Love, will make its return this January. The limited offering will be rereleased on draft and in 750-mL bottles at the brewery in Athens.
Southerly Love is an American Wild Ale that comes in at 6.4-percent ABV. The 2017 release of the beer features Idaho 7, Cascade and Crystal hops. The aroma is complex and full of ripe papaya, tangerine and a light, yeasty funk. The flavor is characterized by a balanced acidity and tropical fruit notes.
“We used a solid dose of funky, tropical and aromatic hops, both in the brewhouse and as a dry hop, to add complexity and intrigue to the beer,” said Co-Founder and Brewmaster Adam Beauchamp. “The result was a synthesis of yeast and hop flavors, melded into a balanced, cohesive and just plain delicious beer.”
The beer was originally brewed in June 2014 as Creature Comfort’s first collaboration beer shortly after opening the brewery in April 2014. The brewery chose Dunedin, Florida’s 7venth Sun to work with on the collaborative brew.
“Brewing with friends is one of the most rewarding parts of my job,” said Beauchamp. “Justin and Devon of 7venth Sun are passionate and talented brewers who I also consider to be a couple of my best friends, so naturally we chose to work with them for our first collaboration project.”
The label artwork is a nod to the hoppiness of the beer and was designed by University of Georgia Scientific Illustration Student Katie Schmidt.
Southerly Love will be available on-site at Creature Comforts on January 17.
ABOUT CREATURE COMFORTS BREWING COMPANY
Creature Comforts is an Athens, Georgia based brewery offering finely balanced artisanal beers. Since opening its doors in April 2014, Creature Comforts has made an imprint in the craft beer community with its award-winning, year-round and special release beers. To learn more about Creature Comforts, contact @ccbeerco.com or visit us online at www.creaturecomfortsbeer.com.
7venth Sun Brewery awarded medal at World Beer Cup
Press Release: Results came in a little more than a week ago for the eleventh World Beer Cup, hosted every two years and known as the most prestigious beer competition in the world. Over 200 judges gathered to taste nearly 6600 entries from 1907 breweries. Among Florida’s five winning breweries, 7venth Sun Brewery of Dunedin (and soon to be Tampa), took a silver medal for their Saison, La Fete, in the Session category. This award was the capstone after accumulating several awards in recent months, including a bronze for Vultures From the Past, a barrel-aged barley wine, at the annual Chicago hosted Festival of Wood and Barrel Aged Beers. 7venth Sun also received best small brewery two years running in Florida’s Best of Florida Beer Championships as well as winning a gold medal for La Fete, a silver for Headbanger IPA and a gold and best small batch beer for Vultures From the Past.
The brewery hopes to ride this wave of success into the opening of their second location in Tampa before the end of the year. The 18,000 square foot warehouse will offer the opportunity to produce more beer as well as a second and larger tasting room and event space. Demolition is currently underway with build-out soon to follow. The team plans to continue to brew the same type and styles of beers it currently offers in Dunedin – IPAs, Saisons, Farmhouse and Old World Style beers – as well as a large expansion of their barrel-aged program. Details to come as the project progresses.
Congratulations to 7venth Sun on this latest award!
7venth Sun wants to take creativity as far as it will go in their new home
When news broke of Dunedin’s 7venth Sun Brewery opening a new and larger home in Seminole Heights, the rumor mill started speculating about what might be in store for the stalwart crew of the 7venth Sun. In mid-November, 7venth Sun co-owners Justin Stange and Devon Kreps detailed just what they had in mind for the brewery’s rise in one of Tampa’s most up-and-coming neighborhoods.
The new building itself is near the intersection of Nebraska and Sligh in Tampa just north of the Mermaid Tavern. This building is more than ten times the size of their Dunedin home, and once renovated will offer brewing staff a canvas to create exactly the type of beers they envisioned when the 7venth Sun rose in 2011. During and after the process, the Dunedin 7venth Sun will remain open–Kreps and Stange have no plans to close the Dunedin location.
What type of beers? “We are looking to set up a climate-controlled barrel cellar, stage more blends, and make more Belgian-style farmhouse ales.” Stange admits that most of the beers that have been released from the facility in Dunedin have been from a single barrel, that should change when the new place opens.
Opening day is in the works, but the building will need some renovation and repairs before construction, and then the brewery will introduce itself to the new building in phases.
Also included in this new home will be a Quality Assurance lab and an increased presence in distribution, including 7venth Sun cans available locally. Stange estimates that year one will raise their annual production eightfold.
“We remain dedicated to making the beers we love,” says Stange. “We’re not trying to take over the world or to be on every corner, just to raise the bar on creativity as high as we can.”
One of 7venth Sun’s goals is to make more fruited wild ales and blended barrel-aged beers.