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Funky Buddha and Intuition make a Trappist Speedball

What happens when two of Florida’s most exciting breweries meet in Jacksonville? Breezes are shot, issues are discussed, and naturally, a beer is created. The fruit of this meeting of the minds is almost ready and a date has been set for its release.

From Intuition Ale Works:

A little while back the crew at Funky Buddha Brewery stopped by our facility on King Street to hang out and collaborate on a very special beer. This beer is called the TRAPPIST SPEEDBALL, a Belgian Quad brewed with Bold Bean Coffee Roasters Coffee! This free-to-the-public event will be the official release of the collab, and will feature several Funky Buddha beers on tap:

PEARL DIVER- Saison brewed w/ oysters
DREAD PIRATE ROBERTS- Imperial Stout w/ raspberries, chocolate, coconut, and vanilla
RASPBERRY FLORIDIAN- Hefeweizen w/ raspberries
FRENCH TOAST- Double Brown Ale w/ vanilla, cinnamon and maple syrup
NIKOLAI VORLAUF- Russian Imperial Stout

Select Intuition brews will also be on tap, and a food truck will be in the courtyard.

Intuition Ale Works is located at 720 King Street in Jacksonville.

Funky Buddha Brewery

Jacksonville is next in line to get Funky (Buddha)

Press Release:

Get Funky, Jacksonville and North Florida!

Funky Buddha is launching in the greater Jacksonville area on August 18th, as well as Gainesville, Tallahassee and the rest of North Florida on September 1. Funky Buddha draft and bottles will be available starting on those dates in retailers, restaurants, and bars throughout the area. Brown Distributing will be handling all sales and distribution, which will see Funky Buddha distributed statewide throughout Florida for the first time.

Brands available at launch will include Funky Buddha’s best-selling flagships Hop Gun IPA and Floridian Hefeweizen, as well as seasonal and limited releases such as Blueberry Cobbler and Last Snow (the later debuts on August 18th throughout the distribution footprint).

Funky Buddha will celebrate the launch with special events at partnering retailers. Please check out the Jacksonville launch lineup below for more information.

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Launch Events

Tuesday, August 18th

Total Wine & More: We’ll be sampling our beers to customers from 2-4pm. Stop in and check us out!

Alewife Craft Beer & Bottle Shop: Taste 6 Buddha beers on draft and pick up bottles to go at Alewife. Meet the Buddha crew from 5-7pm!

Blind Rabbit – Riverside: Join us for a la carte beer and bite pairings with Funky Buddha beers on draft. 7:30pm

Kickbacks Gastropub: We’ll be hosting a tap enlightenment! Buddha crew will be on site after 9:30pm to hang out and talk beers as we sip brews!

Beer:30 King Street: Join them for a Funky Buddha spotlight with growlers to go and bottles available.

Wednesday, August 19

ABC 191: Join us for a sampling of our bottled beers from 3-5pm.

Royal Palm Wine & Tapas: This tapas spot will feature limited drafts and delicious bites paired with them. Buddha crew will be on hand from 5-7pm.

Zeta Brewing Co: This tap enlightenment will kick off at 7pm with some outstanding limited release brews!

Thursday, August 20

Beer:30 San Marco: The Buddha crew will be on site from 4:30-6:30pm showcasing our beers and talking shop. Grab a pint with us or just pick up a growler to go!

Kitchen on San Marco: The Kitchen will be whipping up some a la carte pairings with our beers – grab a plate or two and mingle starting at 6:30pm.

Grape & Grain Exchange/The Parlour: We’re going to close down our launch with the Grape & Grain Exchange and lots of limited beers on tap! We’ll be in the house around 9pm.

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Intuition Ale Works and Proof Brewing to pour collab beer

What happens when one of Jacksonville’s best craft breweries rubs elbows with Tallahassee’s brightest brewing stars? A collaboration beer, of course, and that is just what happened when the folks at Intuition Ale Works met the gents at Proof Brewing Company. The meeting of the minds that took place between the two brewers will soon be pouring forth into Tallahassee.

From Proof Brewing:

Perhaps you remember a while back we made a little something special with the fine folks of Intuition Ale Works out of Jacksonville? Well Ladies and Gentlemen, it’s time. We are very happy to announce the release of our collaboration beer, Vandura – Oaked Black IPA!

Join us Friday, June 26 as we put this beer on for the first time in a very special commemorative glass…you get to keep!

The beer starts pouring at 6pm with the start of the Glassware Giveaway!

We’re seriously excited for you to try our creation with Intuition and we hope you’ll love as much as we do…see you then!

Proof Brewing Company at Railroad Square is located at 644 McDonnell Street in Tallahasee.

Green Room Brewing to celebrate 4th anniversary; release Secret Spot

Every year as summer gets ready to kick off, it has been a Jacksonville Beach tradition to stop by Green Room Brewing, grab a bottle of their barrel-aged Secret Spot, and enjoy the festivities of another circle ’round the sun for the craft brewery. 2015 will see a new variation on Secret Spot, but the same regalia to cheer on the fine folks at Green Room.

From Green Room:

4 years of Brewing and its time to celebrate. This years Secret Spot was aged in Puerto Rican Rum barrels for 6 months. 10% and oh so rummy smooth

TacoLu food truck will be set up slinging tacos like only they can

The Band Be Easy will be providing the sound track

Lots of special beers will be tapped and we will have giveaways all day

Green Room Brewing is located at 228 3rd Street North in Jacksonville Beach. For more information, see Green Room’s event page.

Bold City debuts new Screamsicle Ale

Jacksonville’s Bold City Brewery has been pouring forth their regular and seasonal lineup, serving thirsty locals and tourists alike. Starting this week, Bold City will be adding a new beer to their lineup. Look for Screamsicle to pour at two venues, then the tap room starting next week.

From Bold City:

I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for … Screamsicle! Bold City Brewery is excited to announce the creation of a new Bold City beer! – the Orange Screamsicle which will be available at Welcome To Rockville at Metropolitan Park this weekend!
This brew uses big fat bourbon vanilla beans, sweet orange peel and a bit of milk sugar to achieve that flavor we all knew as a kid, an ice cold Creamsicle Popsicle! Just like the Popsicle, this brew is great on a hot Florida day. Super drinkable (insert buzz word ‘sessionable’) with a low enough ABV that you can enjoy a few! We hope you all have as much fun drinking this brew as we did making it! Note: 4.5% ABV & 21 IBUs
It will be available in the taproom starting Thursday (Apr 30)

Bold City Brewery to begin adding nitro beer to tap room

Jacksonville’s Bold City Brewery has had a pretty steady lineup of beers in their tap room since they finalized their seasonal rotation. To shake things up a bit, Bold City is going to be adding a nitro tap to their Jacksonville tasting room and will begin to nitrogenize some of their beers accordingly. The brewery announced in a recent newsletter that the brewery is going to be “experimenting with some of Bold City’s beer served from a nitro tap.”

From the Bold City newsletter:

On a positive note, we put in a nitro tap here @ the brewery so we are going to start experimenting with some of Bold City’s beer served from a nitro tap. First up is the Duke’s Brown Ale which we’ll be pouring on nitro next Thursday 4/2/15 starting @ 3pm.

Bold City Brewery is located at 2670-7 Rosselle Street in Jacksonville.