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Green Bench Brewing to host Foeder for Thought, a sour beer tasting

Tampa Bay Beer Week is a mere two weeks away, and the events are starting to come into focus.

The number of events vary depending on the brewery, but the awesomeness is the uniting factor: each brewery is trying to show Tampa Bay what they are about and the best beers that they produce.

In Saint Petersburg, Green Bench Brewing Company has the only oak foeder (fermentation vessel) in Florida, and they are going to take it for a (proverbial) ride. Green Bench is bringing in other beers fermented in oak in hopes of highlighting the flavors of oak fermented beers.

The name of the event is Foeder for Thought, and it will be on Friday March 7th from 4pm until 11pm at Green Bench. The brewery will be pouring beers from Anchorage, Crooked Stave, Allagash, Cigar City, 7venth Sun, and Green Bench.

For more information, see Green Bench’s event page. Green Bench is located at 1133 Baum Avenue North in Saint Petersburg.

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JJ Grey’s Nare Sugar Brown Ale coming to growlers

After pairing with Rock Brothers Brewing Company and J.J. Grey to create Nare Sugar Brown Ale, Saint Petersburg’s Green Bench Brewing Company is releasing the beer in growlers for the first time this weekend.

From Green Bench:

Join Rock Brothers Brewing Company, Green Bench Brewing Co. and Cigar City Brewing as we celebrate the first ever Growler bottling of JJ Grey’s Nare Sugar Brown…

What Christmas dinner would be complete without some Nare Sugar on the table??

Event starts at 6pm… Gallon sized Growlers will be $30 (8 pints of beer) and you get to keep the jug!

Green Bench Brewing is located at 1133 Baum Avenue North in Saint Petersburg. The release begins at 6pm.

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Green Bench to release growlers of Demen’s Black IPA

Saint Petersburg- While droves of people will be out shopping today, standing in line for the latest greatest deals, many craft breweries and beer stores will be worth a pause in the shopping frenzy. Saint Petersburg’s Green Bench Brewing Company is offering a respite from the shopping in their tasting room today, and then releasing growlers of their Demen’s Black IPA for the first time.

Green Bench Brewery is located at 1133 North Baum Avenue in Saint Petersburg. They will release growlers of Demen’s Black IPA beginning at 2pm when the tasting room opens until 6pm.

Coppertail Brewing and Green Bench Brewing collaborate

While nothing is certain in this life, it is a pretty safe bet that brewing beer in Florida’s endless summer can cause thirst. All the heat of boiling and mashing combined with a lack of air conditioning makes sweat drip like the mighty Mississippi. The kind folks from Green Bench Brewing of Saint Petersburg and Coppertail Brewing of Tampa have announced that they are collaborating on a beer at Green Bench. No details yet, but they have posted a photo of the brewers enjoying ice cold Capri Suns as they brew.

Green Bench opened for business this week and also announced details of their Grand Opening Celebration. Green Bench’s brewer Khristopher Johnson has announced that he has brewed five collaboration beers with breweries around the state to be poured at some point after Green Bench opens.

Coppertail Brewing is looking at a launch in the opening months of 2014 at their production brewery near IKEA in Ybor City. They have collaborated with Oxbow Brewing of Maine to produce their first beer, and have poured at several festivals around Tampa.

More information on the details of the beer made by these two rising stars of Florida Craft Beer as it becomes available.

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Green Bench Brewing is open for business, grand opening set

Saint Petersurg- Following in the footsteps of their neighboring Cycle Brewing, Green Bench Brewing Company announced on Facebook yesterday that they will be open for business beginning September 25th from 3pm until 10pm.

According to Green Bench Brewing’s shiny new website, the brewery has five beers on draft:

* Green Bench IPA
* Maximo Milk Stout
* Temple Mound Brown Ale
* Skyway Wheat Ale
* Saison de Banc Vert

According to Green Bench’s calendar, their Grand Opening festivities will take place on Saturday, October 19th with details up and coming.

Green Bench currently holds the temporary distinction as Florida’s newest craft brewery, and is located at 1133 Baum Avenue North in Saint Petersburg, Florida.

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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.