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Cigar City introduces nitro beer schedule

Press Release:

We here at CCB have decided to place a focus on our draft nitro beers. We think the nitro adds a unique aspect to many brands. Our tasting room has two nitro taps and we want to get more nitro beers out into the market. We’ve been fairly lax in a lot of ways with how we’ve released the beers, so we have decided to form a schedule for the remainder of 2013 and all of 2014 for our nitro beers.

They will be brewed in sizable batches to be distributed throughout the state. Here’s the schedule:

2013
September: Minaret ESB
October: Hornswoggled Red Ale
November: Puppy’s Breath Robust Porter
December: Minaret ESB

2014
January: Cafe Con Leche Sweet Stout
February-March: Patio Tools Dry Irish Stout
April: Vanilla Maduro Brown Ale
May: Hornswoggled Red Ale
June: Horchata Ale
July: Minaret ESB
August: Vanilla Maduro
September: Minaret ESB
October: Good Gourd Imperial Pumpkin Ale
November: Puppy’s Breath Robust Porter
December: Minaret ESB

Florida’s 2013 Great American Beer Festival Breweries

The Brewers’ Association has posted a list of all the confirmed participants of 2013’s Great American Beer Festival.

Florida’s brewing community will be represented by (alphabetically):

*7venth Sun Brewery of Dunedin
*Cigar City Brewing of Tampa
*Darwin’s Brewing Company of Sarasota
*Due South Brewing of Boynton Beach
*Florida Beer Company of Melbourne +
*Funky Buddha Brewery of Oakland Park
*Swamp Head Brewery of Gainesville

+ (FBC is a sponsor, and is not listed on the GABF site, according to FBC rep. Tom Barris)

Last year’s participants not going back this year include:

*Engine 15 Brewing Company of Jacksonville
*Pensacola Bay Brewing of Pensacola

Tickets for the Great American Beer Festival will go on sale today, 31 July 2013 at 10am MST, or 12pm EST. Tickets last year sold out in record time, and if the brewers’ interest is any indication (brewery slots sold out in almost two hours), they will go quickly. Tickets are $75 per session, and the festival hosts four sessions on the festival weekend of October 10th-12th, 2013.

About the Festival:

The Great American Beer Festival is the premier U.S. beer festival and competition. Each year, GABF represents the largest collection of U.S. beer ever served, in the format of a public tasting event plus a private competition. GABF brings together the brewers and beers that make the U.S. the world’s greatest brewing nation. This event showcases the diverse beers that make craft brewing one of the fastest-growing segments of the beer, wine and spirits industry. GABF was founded in 1982, and has been growing and evolving along with the American craft brewing industry ever since.

El Catador Club Signup rolls out

Many craft beer events are quickly becoming renowned for how many people show up, how many complaints get registered, and how many people feel wronged at the end of the day because the host brewery was not prepared. All of those labels embody everything that Cigar City Brewing hoped to avoid with the signup for their new reserve society, El Catador Club.

When the brewery announced Saturday night via social media that the signup would be open to anyone who showed up today only, some were wary, but many saw the move as a class act. The comments today on Twitter following the hashtag #elcatador seemed positive and complimentary of the Cigar City Brewing crew. Several complimented how quickly the line was moving, and one user boasted that he was in and out of the signup process in twenty minutes.

While the signup process still has about twenty minutes left, and the brewery is still tallying members, and the process has been moved to inside the CCB compound as of about 10:00pm. It looks like this signup will be counted a success and the only thing members will be feeling is the gloss on their shiny membership cards.