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Cycle Brewing on BeerWise Podcast

Cycle Brewing’s Doug Dozark is the latest guest on the BeerWise podcast

Recorded in January 2022, Cycle Brewing’s founder and head brewer Doug Dozark is the latest guest on the BeerWise Podcast

Recorded at Cycle Brewing’s production facility in St. Petersburg, I had the privilege of speaking with Doug about his time in the brewing industry, including his origin story about moving to Colorado and showing up to work at Oskar Blues, then returning home to open up a tiny brewery alongside his family’s restaurant in the tiny town of Gulfport. Doug talks about his love for brewing beer, and how he held down three jobs as a young man – all while trying to foster his brewing knowledge. Doug has worked for both Oskar Blues Brewery and Cigar City Brewing before starting Cycle Brewing – St. Petersburg’s first craft brewery.

Cycle Brewing on BeerWise Podcast

Since he started Cycle, the brewery has become known for its highly sought-after bottles and its bottle release events. Doug talks about his opinion on those release days as well as his love for barrel-aged beers. Doug speaks about his passion for aging beer (specifically imperial stouts) in spirit barrels and his love for dessert beers.

In this episode, you also see the first iteration of a segment I like to call “The Six Pack.” These are six questions to conclude the episode, all related to the beer industry and what the guest has learned in the industry. The “six pack” give a little more information about Doug and about his thoughts on the beer industry.

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About Cycle Brewing
Downtown St. Pete’s craft beer brewery and tasting room. Sip on these fine brews inside the bar or on our sidewalk. Don’t forget to fill a growler or Crowler (canned growler) of Cycle beer to take home.

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Cycle Brewing posts details of Barrel-Aged Day, ticket sales begin soon

St. Petersburg’s Cycle Brewing has announced ticket sales and preliminary details of their annual festival of barrel-aged beer during Tampa Bay Beer Week – Barrel-Aged Day. As usual, the event will take place at the St. Petersburg Shuffleboard Club, and tickets will be sold beginning on Saturday, January 8th.

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From Cycle Brewing:

Barrel Aged (BA) Day Tickets will be for sale at the tap room this Saturday, January 8th at 12 PM. BA Day will take place on Friday, March 11th from 12-4 at the Shuffleboard Club. The ticket includes a Festival Only bottle, glass, and unlimited pours at the event. Tickets will be $125 VIP and $100 General Admission. VIP access allows entrance 1 hour early at 11 am. Limit will be 4pp with proxies allowed. ID required and if you are buying a ticket for somebody you must have their full name – entrance to event is based on the list of names not the physical tickets. Tickets are non-transferable. Cash preferred. If there are any left over tickets, they will be sold via cyclebrewing.com with online sales time and limits TBD. We’ll post updates as we have them. See you Saturday!

 

 

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About Cycle Brewing 
We are a simple brewery, we make beer and we sell it. Our bar is simple, our menu is simple, prices are simple especially when paid in cash. Our operation is straightforward, few frills and all about the beer. We welcome every beer drinker, from the folks just looking to relax with a pint to people looking to unpack layers of complexity.

Our taproom is home to several barrel-aged stouts on tap at all times. In the past, as we were growing the supply was limited and these beers didn’t last long but we expanded barrel storage and now have enough so that everybody coming to the taproom can try some of our most highly rated and prized beers without the hype or lines created by limited supply. Quality is always top priority, in this case making more meant more practice and opportunity to tweak beers and the results are greater availability and improved quality.

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Cycle Brewing’s latest bottles go on sale Thursday at 7pm

Cycle Brewing, St. Petersburg’s barrel-focused brewery, has announced the latest round of new releases to emerge from their lauded barrel-aging program – this time with no adjunct ingredients.

Starting on Thursday, November 4th, at 7pm, we’ll be releasing our 4 newest bottles for sale on cyclebrewing.com with pickups starting Friday at 1pm. No adjunctions, just all barrel all day. Yes, we allow proxies and bottles need to be picked up within a week of purchase. We don’t ship. Here are the details on the the bottles:

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Cycle Brewing updates status of Weekday Bottle Series

One of St. Petersburg’s Cycle Brewing most sought-after series of bottles usually arrive during Tampa Bay Beer Week and mark daily releases each day throughout the week. Each beer is named for a day of the week and contains different adjunct ingredients or blends of barrels, showcasing the versatility and depth of Cycle’s barrel-aging program. Like many parts of 2020 and 2021, the series is progressing but differently than expected.
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Cycle Brewing tap room turns six and the brewery announces bottle release

St. Petersburg’s first operating brewery, Cycle Brewing, first opened their downtown St. Petersburg location six years ago this week.  The brewery is celebrating by releasing a set of massive vanilla stouts.

On July 30th, the brewery posted a picture of what 50 pounds of vanilla beans looks like with the caption, “We turn 6 in a couple weeks, 50 lbs of Vanilla Beans sounds about right…”

Cycle Vanilla BeansOn the labels, the origins of the beans were: Mexico, Madagascar, Indonesia, Tahiti, and Uganda.

Sunday, August 11th, Cycle posted the final destination for those beans were several variants of a massive stout.

From Cycle Brewing:

Thursday 8/15 the Cycle Brewing tap room turns 6! These bottles, filled with barrel aged vanilla bean stout, will be for sale! Details on time are TBD, we do know that supply is very limited, we used a ridiculous ratio of vanilla beans per gallon, even with all those beans it’s not a lot of gallons.
We are releasing all of them on the anniversary date, sorry it’s a weekday this year. Taps will be held til 5. There may be a couple of surprises.

While the final details are not clear yet, Cycle says they’re ready for another bottle release.

 

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Cycle Brewing logo

About Cycle Brewing
We are a simple brewery, we make beer and we sell it. Our bar is simple, our menu is simple, prices are simple especially when paid in cash. Our operation is straightforward, few frills and all about the beer. We welcome every beer drinker, from the folks just looking to relax with a pint to people looking to unpack layers of complexity.

In 2018 and hopefully well into the future our taproom will be home to several barrel-aged stouts on tap at all times. In the past, as we were growing the supply was limited and these beers didn’t last long but we expanded barrel storage and now have enough so that everybody coming to the taproom can try some of our most highly rated and prized beers without the hype or lines created by limited supply. Quality is always top priority, in this case making more meant more practice and opportunity to tweak beers and the results are greater availability and improved quality.