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Allagash Brewing Company to send beer to Florida for first time in ten years

Allagash Brewing Company today announced it is sending a beer care package to their friends in Florida. The Portland, Maine-based brewery will send its flagship Allagash White and Belgian-inspired session ale River Trip to the Sunshine State at the beginning of June. Beers will be sold at Total Wine stores throughout the state.

“We love being able to reconnect with old friends,” said Rob Tod, founder, Allagash Brewing Company. “We left the Florida market 10 years ago and are excited to bring a selection of our core beers back to the state’s burgeoning beer scene.”

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Allagash is currently distributed in 17 states and D.C.

“We recently had an exciting opportunity to partner with Total Wine and sell select packaged beer through all of its stores across Florida,” said Naomi Neville, sales director, Allagash Brewing Company. “We think that offering cans of Allagash White and River Trip—two fan-favorites in our lineup—is a great way to reintroduce ourselves to Florida’s craft beer fans.”

Allagash beers that will be available in Florida include:

  • Allagash White: Winner of multiple World Beer Cup, European Beer Star and Great American Beer Festival awards, Allagash White is a Belgian-style wheat beer, brewed with oats, malted wheat, and unmalted raw wheat for a hazy, “white” appearance. Spiced with Allagash’s special blend of coriander and Curaçao orange peel, Allagash White is both complex and refreshing. (Available in 12-pack 12 oz. cans and 4-pack 16 oz. cans)
  • Allagash River Trip: Hailed the number one beer of 2019 by VinePair, River Trip is a low-ABV, Belgian-style table beer with hop-forward grapefruit and stone fruit notes. It’s brewed with local grains and spiced with coriander for an extra hint of citrus. Dry hopping with Comet and Azacca contributes to the mix of melon and grapefruit notes in the beer’s aroma. (Available in 4-pack 16 oz. cans)

To learn more, visit allagash.com.

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ABOUT ALLAGASH BREWING COMPANY

Allagash Brewing Company is a Certified B Corp founded in Portland, Maine, by Rob Tod—winner of the 2019 James Beard Award for Outstanding Wine, Spirits, or Beer Professional. Since 1995, the brewery has been dedicated to crafting the best Belgian-inspired beers in the world, all while giving back to the community that has supported them along the way. Earning coveted Great American Beer Festival, World Beer Cup, and European Beer Star Awards, Allagash has been deemed one of the best American Breweries of the decade by Paste Magazine and one of the best breweries in America by Gear Patrol. Allagash is available in CA, CT, DC, DE, GA, Chicagoland, MA, MD, ME, NC, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, SC, VA and VT. Learn more on allagash.com and connect with us on our Webby-honored social channels: Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. From Maine, with love.

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Arkane Ale Works inks distribution deal

Largo’s Arkane Ale Works announced today that the brewery has signed a distribution agreement with Oceanic Sunset Distributing.

From Arkane Ale Works:

After more than 3 years of hoarding all our beers exclusively in our tasting room, we have finally made the decision to share with the rest of the world…or at least Pinellas County. We signed distribution with our friends at Oceanic Sunset so you can now find our liquid in a few locations around the Bay Area!

Arkane’s beers will be available first at The Ale and the Witch, at the brewery’s launch party scheduled for Tuesday, October 29th.

When asked why they signed distribution, Arkane co-owner Joe Scheibelhut emphasized that Arkane is not looking to take over the world, merely to keep people excited about the beers they make:

We originally thought we’d move at least 80% of our beers in distro and 20% through our tasting room. We were seriously wrong!

Thankfully we had such an overwhelming response in our tasting room, it was hard for us to make enough beer to keep up with demand. A few years later and with the help of our staff, we are able to keep up with production and move a little beer into distribution.

We still don’t make a lot of liquid, but this move will hopefully gain us some brand awareness because craft is evolving into such a hyper-local market as more breweries open every day. You won’t see us on shelves at Publix, but hopefully people can now enjoy a pint of Arkane at their local pub or favorite eatery!

 

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About Arkane Ale Works

Arkane Aleworks is a brewery founded by Joe Scheibelhut (actual spelling) and Dan Graston, and represents the culmination of years of passion and planning. It started as two poor kids with a dream and has grown into two poor kids with a dream a Facebook page, and a brewery but the best is yet to come!

Why Arkane? Arcane means “understood by few, mysterious or secret.” To us, it represents the aspect of brewing that historically, and to this day, remains misunderstood and elusive. It’s the intersection of vocation and art, and it’s the inspiration for all the innovation and collaboration found in the Craft Beer Movement. The reason yeast was once called “God is Good.” It’s the core of what drives us and brings us together: the calling to solve those mysteries and uncover new flavors. To seek out new life and new civili…oh, sorry, our bad. In short, it’s the motivation to spend a whole bunch of time and sweat making new beers to share with our friends. Yes, you too.

Wynwood Brewing Company sets opening

Miami- Wynwood Brewery has made an official stake at opening day… at least a 30-day window. When asked by a follower on Twitter when the brewery’s “frothy doors will open” owner Luis Brignoni responded with a simple but profound “Mid September.”

When Wynwood opens it will be the first in a series of breweries in planning to open their doors in Miami.

Wynwood has posted significant progress on their brewery construction via Facebook photos, and seems to be on track for that September opening. Congrats to Wynwood on their progress down the long road to opening a craft brewery in Miami.

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Coppertail Brewing making strides in Tampa

Tampa- Of the many new breweries looking to join Florida’s Class of 2013, Coppertail Brewing of Tampa has announced hirings in several key positions and progress towards opening their doors. On Tuesday, brewery Vice President Robb Larson posted on the brewery blog:

Two new employees will officially be joining us starting in July… Casey Hughes, our brewmaster extraordinaire, will be moving down… and Dave Iwansky, our new money and finance guy, is already on his way from Virginia.

Coppertail also announced a small setback as their warehouse cleaning damaged their fire panel. For more information on their progress toward opening, see the Coppertail blog or Facebook page.

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About Coppertail Brewing
Coppertail is a sea monster that lives in Tampa Bay. I know this because my 5-year old daughter told me about it. Somehow, though, it seems like the perfect name for this brewery.
Coppertail is the strange and fantastic that lurks beneath Tampa Bay. Coppertail is dreaming of the impossible. Kind of like the craft brewing industry going up against the giant mega-brewers. Or like a home-brewer putting everything on the line to start a brewery.
We believe in Coppertail.

Bold City Brewery

Bold City Brewery announces new seasonal

Jacksonville- Bold City Brewery announced last week that they had a “a special surprise tapping of our Summer Seasonal.” They put off the tapping until June 13th and then finally they unveiled this brew to the world.

From the Bold City Brewery Newsletter, as written by Brian Miller, Bold City’s Director of Operations:

My Dad, Big John Miller as we like to call him, has been requesting, on the verge of begging, for us to brew an Apricot Wheat ale. We have been trying to fit it in the brew schedule for the last year or so but have been unable to. With Father’s day coming up on Sunday, we had to get it done. So we brewed, packaged, got a sweet label made all without him knowing. Last night, we unveiled the new brew with the whole family here and he was super stoked. It was a fantastic moment and one myself and I’m sure my Dad, will not soon forget. The new ale is called Big John’s Apricot wheat and it has a picture of the one and only Big John Miller on it.

Apparently the Millers kept the beer secret in order to surprise their patriarch, and now it will be distributed in Jacksonville. No word yet on if this beer will become a permanent addition to the Bold City lineup.

For more information see Bold City’s Facebook Page or website.

 

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About Bold City Brewery
Bold City Brewery is locally owned and operated by Brian and Susan Miller (no relation to the Miller Brewing Company, although the money would be nice). They are supported by the rest of the Miller family who all have a hand in the operations whether it be marketing, distributing, ordering supplies, cleaning tanks or doing what’s most important, brewing beer. Brian, the Brewmaster started with home brewing in 2002. Brian was a member of the Local Home Brewers Club in Jacksonville prior to opening the brewery. His mother, Susan, left her job in management at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida to join the beer biz. She is primarily responsible for managing the on-site Tavern.

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Cask & Larder to get new name

Orlando’s Cask and Larder is quickly becoming one of the hottest spots in Florida Craft Beer Culture. As such, the Southern-themed kitchen and brewery is changing its official name to reflect its focus on craft beer. The focus will be the same as it has been, the only difference is the name. After all, a great craft brewpub by any other name is still an outstanding craft brewpub.