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What is Green Bench Brewing up to for Tampa Bay Beer Week?

Green Bench Brewing of Saint Petersburg has more than a few events lined up for Tampa Bay’s hoppiest hours. Brewer Khris Johnson and staff are busy prepping for the takeovers, events, and new beers coming this week.

What is up with Green Bench?

3/6 – Beer Week Kickoff Tappings @ Pour House

3/7 – FBG Fest – Pouring Green Bench IPA, Stay Dry Stout, Happy Hermit Pale Ale, and Saison de Banc Vert

3/8 – Brewer’s Ball After Party @ Independent – Les Grisettes makes it’s debut!

3/10 – Beer pairing at Locale Market starting at 6 PM

3/11 – Ybor City Kill the Keg Pub Crawl (6 PM) – $30 entry to help TBBC, CCB, 7th Sun, GB, and Coppertail kill 5 kegs at New World, Bricks, TBBC, Brass Tap, and Bad Monkey. After all of the kegs are emptied we’ll hang out and drink them all on tap at Dirty Shame.

3/11 – Cask Night @ Wild Rover Brewing (7 PM) – Maximo Milk Stout aged on Buddy Brew Ethiopian Coffee and Red Oak

3/12 – Swamphead Brewing Tap Takeover at Green Bench

3/13 – Foeder for Thought – Taste more than 70 foeder, sour/wild beers from breweries like Crooked Stave, Anchorage, Jester King, Wicked Weed, Cascade, and many more! Also, available for the first time ever, St. Peter’s Belgian Line bottles and a new Webb’s City Cellar Series beer: Famous Flying Zacchinis!

Green Bench Brewing Company is located at 1133 Baum Avenue in Saint Petersburg.

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Green Bench Brewing to host second annual Foeder For Thought during TBBW

Tampa Bay Beer Week is looking to be another incredible week this year. Green Bench Brewing of Saint Petersburg is going to again be hosting their showcase of wood-fermented beers, Foeder For Thought.

From Green Bench:

Come taste the unique flavors of 100% Oak Fermented beers at Green Bench Brewing Company. For this 2nd Annual premier event, every beer on tap in our tasting room is fermented in Oak Foeders from Green Bench Brewing, Jolly Pumpkin, Crooked Stave, New Belgium, and more. In addition to foeder beers there will be oak sour beers pouring outside of the tasting room with food trucks, bands and local vendors on site all night. This will be our largest block party of the year!

The festivities start at 4pm and go until closing time. This year, we’re doing one standard ticket for $65 which will allow you access to unlimited pours of all foeder beers and oak aged sour beers all night long! With your ticket purchase you’ll receive a Foeder for Thought tasting glass as well.

For $75 you’ll get everything mentioned above plus a bottle of our Webb’s City Cellar Series release Famous Flying Zacchinis. This is a Dark Farmhouse ale that was fermented 100% in the foeder before being aged in Apple Brandy barrels with wild yeast for a year, prior to being conditioned in the bottle on Brettanomyces.

For a complete tap list, and to but tickets, see Green Bench’s event page.

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Green Bench Brewing to release four Russian imperial stouts

When Green Bench Brewing of Saint Petersburg is quiet, it usually means that head brewer Khris Johnson is up to something. In this case, it is several somethings.

Green Bench Brewing is currently pre-selling tickets for four bottles of the Russian Imperial Stout “Russian Mail Order Bride.” Tickets are available here.

From Green Bench:

On Saturday, February 21st Green Bench is releasing a package of 4 beers, sold together, that were all aged and treated differently. The base of this beer was meant to showcase an American interpretation of the Russian Imperial Style.

While our version is dryer and more assertively roast forward in comparison to many Russian Imperial Stouts, we didn’t want to lose the bold, big bodied characteristics that we adore from the style. In addition to the base Russian Mail Order Bride we decided to play around with a couple of different barrels for aging purposes, in this case Apple Brandy and Tequila. What we found were very exciting new characteristics developed that were subtle, but all together very different from the base. In fact, we found that the best way to pick out the flavors in the barrel aged versions was to directly compare them with a blend of the two. We wanted to provide all of these beers in a way that encourages you to taste the delicate nuances of each version.

So, what you’ll be getting in this pre-order is:

One 750ml bottle of the base Russian Mail Order Bride
One 750ml bottle of the Russian Mail Order Apple Brandy Barrel Aged
One 750ml bottle of the Russian Mail Order Tequila Barrel Aged
One 750ml bottle of the Russian Mail Order blended (2 barrel) Aged

We’re offering this pre-order release event package at $60 total (a $10 discount from what we’ll be retailing these for in our tasting room). We’re only selling 350 packages total in this pre-order and each person will be limited to a quantity of 3.

At the release day event we’ll be opening at 11am, an hour before we release bottle sales to the public so that you can:

a.) Pick up your pre-ordered bottles, and
b.) Order up discounted pours of each beer on tap in the tasting (limited supply).

Your pre-order receipts is your ticket to the release event!

P.S. If you cannot make it to the release event, we’ll hold your bottle orders for a total of 4 weeks to give you time to pick them up.

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Green Bench Brewing hosts Get Low: A Session Beer Festival

Florida Beer has a lot to celebrate. Green Bench Brewing has decided to celebrate low-alcohol IPAs and session beers at their Get Low Festival.

From Green Bench:

Dig this cats.

Come celebrate the end of the summer at Green Bench and soak up some rays with low alcohol craft beers. All brews will be 5% ABV or lower and are only $4.

Our friends Rapp Brewing Company, 7venth Sun Brewing, Six Ten Brewing, Pair O’ Dice Brewing, Motorworks Brewing, 3 Daughters Brewing, Barley Mow Brewing Company, Saint Somewhere Brewing Co., Three Palms Brewing and St Petersburg Brewing Company will be providing beer for this special event.

We will have several fun activities in the beer garden. Including a pool, waterslide, water balloons, squirt guns, and more. So if you want to have the most fun, plan on getting wet.

So… come hang, have some great brews and celebrate our first summer together.

It’s sure to be a gas, so don’t be a ding-a-ling and make sure you make it out to this jam.

The Get Low Festival will take place on Sunday, September 7th at Green Bench (1133 Baum Avenue North in Saint Petersburg). The trouble starts at Noon.

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Green Bench Brewing doubles capacity

Since Green Bench Brewing Company helped to change the city zoning codes in order to open a Saint Petersburg-based production brewery, there has been a high demand for Green Bench beer. While that is a great problem to have, Green Bench has been sweating in the Florida sun to keep up with their demand. Until now.

Yesterday, Monday June 9th, Green Bench purchased new brewing vessels (fermentation tanks, judging by their conical bottoms) and announced that they have effectively “doubled their brewing capacity.” Look for wider availability of Green Bench beer as the new tanks get plumbed in and filled.

Green Bench Brewing Company is located at 1133 Baum Avenue North in Saint Petersburg.

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Green Bench Brewing celebrates American Craft Beer Week

Green Bench Brewing of Saint Petersburg has been keeping busy trying to keep up with demand for their beers. The Saint Petersburg craft brewery has several events planned during this big week for small breweries.

Tuesday: Tuesday we’ll be at The Bricks in Ybor hanging out and have a few of our beers on tap.

Thursday: Thursday we’ll but up at Swamphead Brewing for a Green Bench Tap Takeover. They’ll have our GB IPA, Stay Dry Stout, Skyway Wheat, Happy Hermit Pale Ale, Saison de Banc Vert, Whitted White IPA, and Spring Bloom IIPA. Details here: http://swamphead.com/events/american-craft-beer-week-thursday-may-15th-green-bench-hangout-wetlands/

Friday: Also, Friday night we’re releasing Creative Clay Chocolate IPA. This was a small batch collaboration we brewed with Brandon Evans from CB/BC (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cest-Bon-Brewing-Charity/1396241730635112). All money made from this beer is going to be donated to Creative Clay across the street from the brewery. It’s an adjunct based American IPA brewed with Flaked Corn and Florida Cane Sugar and aged on Cacao Nibs.

Saturday: Saturday I’ll be doing a brewer meet and greet at the Amsterdam from 4-7PM then I’ll be at GB after.

Finally, all week Green Bench will be growlering their Florida Weisses, limit one growler per brand per person. Brands include Second Stage (7th Sun Collab/Dry Hopped Berliner), Burg is the Word (Tart Cherry Floridaweisse), Champ Juice (Tangerine Floridaweisse), Goose Joose (Kiwi Floridaweisse), Habanero Champ Juice, Jalapeno Goose Joose.

Thanks to Khris Johnson for the information.

Berliner Bash date changed

The Berliner Bash on the Bay, an annual event that brings out the most acidic beers that Florida has to offer, has had to change its 2014 date.

J. Wakefield Brewing, the event organizer, posted the change on Facebook (note that Wakefield refers to the event as “Floridaweisse Bash” and Cycle Brewing refers to it as Berliner Bash–it is the same event):

The Floridaweisse Bash will now be held on May 10th at Green Bench brewing. We had to move it due to some scheduling conflicts. I should have more hard details later this week but this is a firm date so we hope you guys will be able to make it out.

The event will take place at Green Bench Brewing Company at 1134 Baum Avenue North in Saint Petersburg on May 10th. No time has yet been posted.