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Cigar City Brewing goes collaborating

Many breweries around Florida and the U.S. brew collaboration beers. Collaboration beers show friendship and camaraderie. When Tampa’s Cigar City Brewing decides to collaborate, they go all in and brew a large number of collaboration beers at once, sending their brewers around the U.S. and inviting other brewers to brew at their facility.

Cigar City currently has four collaboration beers they are working on:

Collaboration with Hoppin’ Frog Brewery of Akron, Ohio: “This one’s an imperial porter we plan to age on maple.”

Collaboration with JDub’s Brewing of Sarasota: “This one’s gonna be a hoppy dark lager!”

Return collaboration with Alesmith Brewing of San Diego: “This one is going to be a strong brown roggenbier. That means it’s brewed with a copious amounts of rye. Wayne generally doesn’t like brewing with rye, as it’s quite a pain on the ole brewhouse, but he has no problem doing it at another brewery.”

Vague announcement about a collaboration with another Ohio Brewery. “[The Hoppin’ Frog collab] is the first of two Ohio collabs coming soon.”

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Green Bench announces five collaboration beers

Saint Petersburg- Green Bench Brewing Company has the Florida craft beer community waiting anxiously for an announcement on when exactly their opening day will arrive. Until that announcement comes, brewer Khris Johnson has released some preliminary details of his marathon five collaboration beers to be poured on Green Bench’s opening day.

Johnson has been making the rounds at five different Central Florida craft breweries in a show of friendship and community, as well as the labor of beermaking. Green Bench’s opening day collaboration beers will be:

7venth Sun Collaboration: Florida (Berliner) weisse.

Cask and Larder Collaboration: Sessionable, yet intense white IPA.

Cigar City Collaboration: Specialty brown ale with lactose and peppercorn.

Saint Somewhere Collaboration: low-alcohol, hop-assertive farmhouse ale with two strains of brettanomyces.

Tampa Bay Brewing Company Collaboration: Smoked black IPA.

More details are sure to follow, including the hopeful announcement of Green Bench’s opening day.

About Green Bench Brewing Company: Green Bench will open its doors as part of Florida’s class of 2013. They began construction in March of 2013, and plan to open in the fall of the same year. Named for Saint Petersburg’s famed green benches that used to be landmarks in all over the city during the turn of the 20th Century. The brewery is planning a beer garden and tasting room in downtown Saint Petersburg near Tropicana Field at 1133 Baum Avenue North. No word yet on Green Bench’s core beers, but they hope to set up a sour program and a unique line of Belgian beers.