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Engine 15 to end Brew Your Own program

From the beginning of the brewery, Engine 15 Brewing Company was committed to helping new and aspiring brewers perfect their recipes and learn how to brew beer on a bigger brewing system. Unfortunately, Engine 15 is going to have to stop that program in the name of progress, but that space will not be lost.

From the Engine 15 Newsletter:

For the past four years, we have loved having kettles for you guys to brew your own beer. We hope you have learned a lot and made some great beer. But change is coming and those kettles will soon be relocated downtown.

As we gear up in La Villa, we now have space to store grain and other brewing supplies that used to live at the Beach. The GREAT news is that we will have more room for YOU very soon. And we have some very cool ideas for the space so stay tuned.

If you have a gift certificate for Brew-Your-Own, don’t wait…call us TODAY and set up a brew date. You will get first priority until Friday, Sept 5th since that special someone was so wonderful to buy you that present. After that, we will open the schedule for any last appointments and the remaining spots will fill up fast.

If you don’t read this in time OR can’t get in to brew, we are happy to use the amount towards beer or food or tshirts. Of course the credit is not lost.

For those of you curious, we will still brew speciality beers and seasonals at the Beach. All flagship beers will be brewed downtown. And rumors of a biergarten downtown are still alive but there are permits to be approved and lots of beer to brew before that’s a reality. But that is the end goal.

Engine 15 to bottle Old Battle Axe IPA

Engine 15 has recently added to their selection of bottled house beers. Newest addition: Old Battle Axe IPA.

From Engine 15 Newsletter:

While these first two bottles were NOT for sale (one is for Luch and one for Sean), the rest can and should be in your fridge immediately! On sale now in the brewpub for $6.

You can also find them in the following retail stores:
Total Wine
Grape and Grain
Broudy’s Liquor
Beer: 30
Grassroots

And if that wasn’t enough, we just had OBA tshirts made. Mens L & XL are $15, Ladies sizes & XXLs are $20. You ask, we deliver.

You know you can get Nut Sack in bottles – it’s been out for a bit. Next up in bottles – Route 90 Rye, woo-hoo! Then comes seasonals but it’s too hot to talk about those now. You want cans, too – greedy! OBA will be first up in cans…stay tuned.

Engine 15 to premiere J’ville Lager at 4th Anniversary

This is a big week for the folks at Engine 15 Brewing Company. They are not only working on their new production facility and striving to bring their new brewery on line, but this week marks four years in business for the Jacksonville Beach brewery.

To celebrate this momentous time, Engine 15 is having a birthday bash with some new beers and many familiar favorites.

From Engine 15:

Let’s start with our NEW American Lager – J’ville (tapped on 4th of July). You guys are going to love this clean, refreshing beer just in time for the dog days of summer. We will offer $8 fills when you bring in your MaB (bought here or otherwise) – or if you need one we have a limited supply for $20. MaB fills are of J’ville only.

Next up, the bottle release of our Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Simcoe & Bourbon Barrel Aged Chupacabra. You loved it last year and we know you’ll fall in love all over again so get it while it lasts. (2 bottle Simcoe and 1 bottle Chupacabra limits)

In addition to these fine new brews, we will have a killer tap list that day:
Engine 15 Old Battle Axe IPA
Engine 15 Double Drop IPA
Engine 15 904 Weissguy
Engine 15 Route 90 Rye Pale Ale
Engine 15 Nut Sack Double Brown Ale
Engine 15 Christmas Quad
Engine 15 Abbey Normal Belgian Double
*NEW Engine 15 J’ville American Lager
Engine 15 Russian Imperial Stout
Engine 15 Top Crop
2013 Engine 15 Chupacabra
2014 Engine 15 Chupacabra
2014 Engine 15 Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Simcoe
Wynwood IPA
Wynwood La Rubia Blonde Ale
Intuition Siren (Lager with Chili Peppers)
Intuition Dry Hopped Saison
Oxbow Farmhouse Ale
Plus many more of your favorites!

Engine 15 Brewing Company is located at 1500 Beach Boulevard in Jacksonville. The brewery’s fourth anniversary party will take place this weekend, on Saturday, July 5th.

Engine 15 “is finally alive” on Myrtle Street

Engine 15 Brewing Company of Jacksonville Beach has been working diligently to build their new production brewery in the La Villa section of Jacksonville. Well, like Doctor Frankenstein amazed by his creation, co-owners and brewers Luciano Scremin and Sean Bielman posted a video of them standing next to the brewhouse of their Myrtle Street facility and simply saying, “It’s finally alive” as steam poured out of the brewkettle.

Congratulations to Engine 15 on this latest milestone. More information to come, as it is released.

Engine 15 goes to OneSpark

Engine 15 Brewing Company has recently announced that they will be at the OneSpark Festival in Jacksonville, their “Building a Biergarten” project will be featured.

For more information, here is the information from their recent newsletter:

Engine 15 is excited to be a part of this year’s One Spark Festival in downtown Jacksonville. Thousands of people come to see over 630 creator projects – and one of them is ours! We’ll be in the “grassy knoll” in the picture above – at the Jax Chamber.

We have designed a three phase water recovery system for the new production brewery. Phase One (or Phase Yellow) will allow us to use water from cooling the wort to water our biergarten and/or clean equipment. Phase Two (or Phase Blue) will allow us to capture rain water from the roof and incorporate it with the water from Phase One. Lastly, Phase Three (or Phase Green, because Yellow+Blue=Green) will incorporate a filtration system that lets us use all this water to actually make the beer. Now we are talking!!

We are still looking for volunteers for weekday and weekend help. For every 3 hour shift you work, we will give you 2 FREE E15 Pints. We are especially light during “normal” work hours so if you have a flexible job, work from home or are retired – we REALLY need your help! Please email Jodie at Jodielynncollins82@gmail.com to get on the schedule.

We hope all of you will go to the event as well. You will want to create an account so you can vote for all the projects you like. All the info is on the One Spark site. You can vote for us 3 ways: with our project name “Brewing Up A Biergarten”, with Engine 15 or with our project number 20651. We need all the votes we can get so thanks in advance!

Engine 15 construction update

Back in November, Engine 15 Brewing Company of Jacksonville Beach told the world of their plans to build a new production brewery. In this month’s brewery newsletter, the team tells how the pieces are falling in place for the new facility.

From the Engine 15 newsletter:

La Villa Location Update

Things are moving along on Myrtle Ave! Man, junk can really pile up on a property over almost 100 years!

To date we have removed over five 20 yard construction dumpsters of trash and refuse from the property. Everything from rotted wood decks to what seems like miles and miles of obsolete and unused conduit, pipe, non-working sprinkler system components, failed concrete, and just general junk!

While there is much work left to do, we are finally in the “making things look better not worse” mode! One of the buildings has over 700 individual windows, many of the glass panes were cracked or broken and had to be replaced! Whoo! What a job! The many roof leaks have been fixed, which is nice to know on a day like this!

We are hurrying to get the plumbing and sprinkler contractors done this week so we can start on the floor coating because the new brewhouse arrives in TWO WEEKS! Yikes! Ok enough talk, back to work!

Engine 15 announces new production brewery

Jacksonville- Engine 15 Brewing Company has been working to produce beer for Florida’s thirsty beer-drinking audience. The guys at the Engine are working so hard that they have maxed out their 4-barrel brewing system at their pub in Jacksonville Beach.

According to an article in the Jacksonville Times-Union, Engine 15 is looking to open up a 38,000 square foot brewery in historic buildings on North Myrtle Avenue in Jacksonville, right down the street from where Intuition Ale Works has announced plans to build a new brewery on Forest Street. The new brewery would feature a twenty-barrel brewhouse, capable of brewing more than 600 gallons of beer at a time. Engine 15 owner Luch Scremin says that he would like to have the brewery open in February of 2014.

About Engine 15: Engine 15 Brewing Co. was born of the need for great beer! Way back in 1988, Luch Scremin was a Freshman in college and became interested in brewing his own beer. Since the internet did not exist, Luch was forced to order a “beer kit” from an ad in the back of an issue of Popular Mechanics. Suffice it to say that what resulted was indeed beer but was far from great. Fast forward twenty years and the love of beer and the desire to brew it had matured over years of home brewing and an insatiable appetite for delicious brew. Luch traveled the world with his job in the airline business and was treated to many delicious beer styles and beer culture. In 2008 while planning to open a beer bar and brewpub, Luch met his future business partner, Sean Bielman. They were soon making the business a reality.

All that was left was a name. They soon decided they would name the brewery for Luch’s 1962 Ford Fire Engine — after all, they just don’t make them like that anymore. It represents all that Engine 15 Brewing Co. is about. Camaraderie, old school know how, determination and a simple but serious dedication to the cause.