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Funky Buddha and Intuition make a Trappist Speedball

What happens when two of Florida’s most exciting breweries meet in Jacksonville? Breezes are shot, issues are discussed, and naturally, a beer is created. The fruit of this meeting of the minds is almost ready and a date has been set for its release.

From Intuition Ale Works:

A little while back the crew at Funky Buddha Brewery stopped by our facility on King Street to hang out and collaborate on a very special beer. This beer is called the TRAPPIST SPEEDBALL, a Belgian Quad brewed with Bold Bean Coffee Roasters Coffee! This free-to-the-public event will be the official release of the collab, and will feature several Funky Buddha beers on tap:

PEARL DIVER- Saison brewed w/ oysters
DREAD PIRATE ROBERTS- Imperial Stout w/ raspberries, chocolate, coconut, and vanilla
RASPBERRY FLORIDIAN- Hefeweizen w/ raspberries
FRENCH TOAST- Double Brown Ale w/ vanilla, cinnamon and maple syrup
NIKOLAI VORLAUF- Russian Imperial Stout

Select Intuition brews will also be on tap, and a food truck will be in the courtyard.

Intuition Ale Works is located at 720 King Street in Jacksonville.

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Funky Buddha and Delaware’s Dogfish Head celebrate collaboration

Press Release:

In celebration of our upcoming collaboration with Dogfish Head, we’ll be throwing an epic party on April 6th at 6pm called Nano-Nano Beer and Bites Pairing with Dogfish Head featuring Dogfish founder craft beer luminary, Sam Calagione! Yes, Sam will be here in town to party with us!

This event will be open to the public and begin at 6pm. Rolling Chefs, Chacos Chinese Tacos, and others will be offering a la cart pairings with Dogfish and Funky Buddha beers. Naturally, we’ll have plenty of special releases on tap including a vintage keg of Dogfish Head 2011 Black & Blue and a cask of 75 Minute IPA (a first in Florida)! Also expect a bevvy of special Funky Buddha draughts including the appearance of Barrel-Aged Morning Wood (Imperial Maple Bacon Coffee Porter aged in Heaven Hill barrels).

The Backstory:
Back in January of 2014, we collaborated with our friends from Dogfish Head on a beer for Boston’s Extreme Beer Fest. The beer we made was called Nano Nano, a name that celebrates the roots of both Dogfish Head and Funky Buddha Brewery as small, independent, nano breweries making beers mere gallons at a time. This imperial porter was brewed with cocoa, smoked habanero peppers, black strap molasses, and sea salt harvested from both the Florida and Delaware coasts. But because we only made five barrels of it, we were unable to bring any to Florida. So we set out to fix that!

Nano Nano is coming back! Dogfish Head will be joining us in the next few weeks to brew another batch of our Imperial Porter to be released in upcoming months throughout Florida.

Tap List:
· Dogfish Head Namaste
· Dogfish Head Festina Peche
· Dogfish Head Burton Baton
· Dogfish Head Black & Blue – 2015
· Dogfish Head Aprihop
· Dogfish Head Sixty One
· Dogfish Head Indian Brown Ale
· Dogfish Head 75 Minute – Cask
· Dogfish Head Black & Blue – 2011
· Dogfish Head Palo Santo – 2014
· Dogfish Head Festina Lente
· Funky Buddha Heaven Hill Barrel-Aged Morning Wood (Imperial MBCP)
· Funky Buddha More Moro
· Funky Buddha Last Snow
· Funky Buddha Uncle Vucub’s
· Funky Buddha Rum Barrel Imperial Pina Colada
· Funky Buddha Key Lime Berlinerweise
· Funky Buddha Cabernet Barrel Stout with Cherries and Cocoa
· Funky Buddha Bonita Applebum
· Funky Buddha Maple Bacon Coffee Porter
· More to Come!

Pairings:

Served/sold a la carte (no tickets required)

Plum- and chile- glazed duck wing
served with Dogfish Head 61 Minute IPA

Stonefruit Shrimp and Grits
served with Funky Buddha Bonita Applebum

Funky Buddha Brewery is located at 1201 NE 38th Street in Oakland Park.

Cigar City Brewing Skyline

Cigar City Brewing to collaborate with Boulevard Brewing

Cigar City, Florida’s most prolific collaboration brewery has posted to Facebook that they will be teaming up with Boulevard Brewing of Kansas City to brew a beer. The collaboration will celebrate Boulevard’s beer coming to Florida’s shelves and the friendship that the two breweries have built.

What will the beer be?

“This is going to be a hopped up citrus white ale…” according to Cigar City’s Facebook post. More details as they emerge.

JDub’s Brewing to collaborate with Terrapin Beer Company

JDub’s Brewery will officially roll out the welcome mat for another collaboration brewer, this time being JDub’s first out-of-state visitors. Jdub’s owner Jeremy Joerger announced today that Terrapin Beer Company will be coming to brew at the Sarasota facility of JDub’s in October.

On the subject of the beer, Joerger said that few of the details have been hammered out just yet, but they are forthcoming. The brewing cohorts will take to the kettle in early October with to make the beer.

Look for more details as October gets closer.

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Rock Brothers and Hootie & the Blowfish to release Hootie’s Homegrown Ale

Rock Brothers Brewing has established a brewing company based on collaboration beers with musicians from across the country. Beginning in Bradenton with Have Gun Will Travel’s High Road Pale Ale, progressing to Jacksonville’s JJ Grey & Mofro’s Nare Sugar Brown Ale, then the newly announced beer with Kyle Hollingsworth of String Cheese Incident, now the band beer brewing brothers announce that they will brew Hootie’s Homegrown Ale with Charleston, SC’s Hootie and the Blowfish.

What’s the Florida connection? Florida’s Cigar City Brewing and South Carolina’s Palmetto Brewing will both be involved on the project. According to a recent Facebook post, the beer should be available around September or October.

Point Ybel Brewing teams up with Roadkill Ghost Choir

Press Release:

Emerging fully-formed from the desolate heart of Central Florida, Roadkill Ghost Choir make unsettling, powerful American rock, Tom Petty by way of Radiohead and Cormac McCarthy. Set against Kiffy Meyer’s ghostly steel pedal, singer and main songwriter Andrew Shepard triumphantly conjures an allegorical American landscape of drifters, specters and violent saints. Andrew’s brothers Maxx (drums) and Zach (bass) Shepard round out the rhythm section, and Stephen Garza handles lead guitar.

The band released their debut EP ‘Quiet Light’ in 2013 in the midst of a touring run that saw them opening for Band of Horses and 2013 festival slots at New York’s Governor’s Ball, Austin City Limits and Shaky Knees in Atlanta, GA. In January 2014 the band was invited to perform on the David Letterman Show, where they performed standout track “Beggar’s Guild.” Their debut full-length, recorded in Athens, Georgia and in their home studio in Deland, Florida with producer Doug Boehm, will be out later this year. The band will be touring supporting the new album, including stops at Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza.

DETAILS:

With a max capacity for this event set at 80 people, you will enjoy a very intimate, VIP concert by Roadkill Ghost Choir at Point Ybel Brewing Company’s tasting room, Hurricane Hole. We are bringing in a stage and professional sound and sound engineer for this indoor, private event. If that wasn’t enough, Roadkill Ghost Choir and Point Ybel are collaborating on a special craft beer for the band and the event. The very limited release, Belgian Style Imperial IPA “A Blow to the Head,” is named after one of the band’s new tracks from their upcoming album, releasing later this year. This track along with all of the other tracks from the new and previous album will be heard at the show. Tickets will go on sale Tuesday, June 3 at 11AM.

The artwork for A Blow to the Head’s label is being painted by Tim Finfrock, the amazing artist behind all of Point Ybel’s logos and labels. $40 VIP ticket holders (limited to 30) will receive a limited edition 22 ounce “bomber” of A Blow to the Head Belgian Style Imperial IPA with label artwork to take home and enjoy whenever they please. General admission is $25 and $35 day of show.

Please bring cash as food will be available for sale on-site by our new neighbor and foodie sidekick, 11:Eleven Café, soon to be opening next door to Point Ybel. Be one of the first to sample this amazing food.

This is a closed, private event and you must have a printed ticket and valid photo ID to enter the brewery. This is a 21 and up event-NO EXCEPTIONS. Rain or shine. No refunds. We suggest arriving early for this event! Doors open at 4pm. A Blow to the Head Releases at 6pm and band starts at 8:30pm.

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Saint Petersburg and JDub’s collaborate

June 3rd in Saint Petersburg, JDub’s Brewing of Sarasota and Saint Petersburg Brewing got together to collaborate on Saint Petersburg Brewing’s first co-brewed beer.

From JDub’s Brewing:

JDub’s and St. Pete brewing will be teaming up to brew a collaboration beer at St. Pete brewing Compnay. As always, we’re stoked to collabrorate with our brothers and sisters in this wonderful industry, demonstrating the fraternital atmosphere of craft breweries. We’ll be teaming up to make a imperial red ale, and what’s even more special about this collaboration is that it will be the first conducted at the St. Pete Brewery.

No word yet on release details.