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List of events for Jax Beer Week

This week is one of the greatest weeks for Jacksonville craft beer lovers, it’s Jax Beer Week. On the heels of American Craft Beer Week, this is the week for Jacksonville’s craft breweries to celebrate their art by hosting events all over town and putting their best ales and lagers forward for their fans.

Here is a list of events from Jax Beer Week:

*Tuesday, May 27th:

-Intuition Ale Works to tap a new one-off beer.

-The Silver Cow is hosting a Cigar City Tap Takeover

*Wednesday, May 28th:

-Engine 15 Brewing Company Beer Dinner at the Blind Fig

-Intuition Ale Works to tap a new one-off beer.

-The Silver Cow is hosting a Bold City Brewery Pint Night.

-The Grape and Grain Exchange will host a Cigar City artisanal beer and cheese pairing.

-Mellow Mushroom Jacksonville is hosting a sampling of Cigar City’s Five Beers for Five Years series.

*Thursday, May 29th:

-Intuition Ale Works to tap a new one-off beer.

-The Silver Cow is hosting an Intuition Ale Works Pint Night.

-Green Room Brewing is tapping Mayor Bee, a American Blonde Ale made with honey harvested by Green Room staff.

*Friday, May 30th:

-Intuition Ale Works to tap a new one-off beer.

*Saturday, May 31st:

-Intuition Ale Works to tap a new one-off beer.

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!

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Jacksonville’s two new breweries-to-be

Lots has been buzzing up in the Bold New City. Jacksonville is getting two new craft breweries in the coming months, and that is not including Engine 15 and Intuition Ale Works looking to open production breweries.

Veterans United:

According to the Jacksonville Daily Record, Navy veteran Ron Gamble is building a $1 million brewery in the Bay Meadows area of Jacksonville into a 10,000 square foot craft brewery. Gamble christened the brewery “Veterans United Craft Brewery,” an homage to his service to the country.

The brewery is located at 8999 Western Way, off of I-95 in Bay Meadows, an area chosen because it is not served by many existing breweries like San Marcos or Jacksonville Beach.

Gamble, a graduate of the Siebel Institute of Brewing Technology, plans to be open in May of 2014.

Zeta:

According to an article in Brown Distributing’s newsletter, Zeta, a bar and restaurant in Jacksonville Beach plans to open a seven-barrel brewery and begin brewing by the end of March.

Brewer Chris Prevatt is an alumnus of Siebel Brewing Institute has plans to create a core group of beers, then eventually a group of lagers. Zeta’s beers will be served onsite only at first then move to distribution. Prevatt has high hopes for his India pale ale, rye pale, chocolate coffee stout, honey brown ale at Zeta.

Zeta is located at 131 First Avenue North in Jacksonville Beach.

Green Room Brewing Quetzalcoatl and other releases

Jacksonville- The Secret Spot on the Beach, Jacksonville’s Green Room Brewing, gave the world news of its latest beer to be reborn: Quetzalcoatl.

What is Quetzalcoatl? From Green Room’s newsletter:

Imperial Red Ale Brewed w/ Chocolate, Cassava Root, Serrano & Pablano Peppers. @ 11%
This beer was inspired by the end of the Mayan calendar last year. We wanted to party like it was the end of the world and did! with you all! So this year it’s the return of the “Quetzalcoatl” and this time its personal. So come out December 21st and party like it’s the end of the world again!

Quetzalcoatl will return to Green Room on December 21st both on draft and in bottles.

Green Room has also announced several other new and interesting beers, including a collaboration with the up-and-coming Jdub’s Brewing of Sarasota:

In addition to the Quetzalcoatl we will be tapping a few more beers this month

Dec 12th: tapping of our Christmas beer “HollaRay” amber ale made with spruce tips

Dec 19th: Tapping of the “Coffee Shop” our 420th batch of beer. You’ll just have to come in and check this one out for yourself, I’m not giving away the surprise!

Dec 21st: Tapping and Bottle release of the Quetzalcoatl

Dec 24th: We will be closed Christmas day, so come out on the 24th and get those growlers filled for your holiday.

Dec 26th: Tapping of the collaboration with JDub’s brewing in Sarasota FL and Bold City brewing. A Citrus I.P.A. To be named.

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.

Engine 15 announces the 12 Beers of Christmas

Jacksonville- Every year Jacksonville’s Engine 15 Brewing pours twelve new beers at Christmas time, and unlike other breweries around the country, they all pour in the month of December– no waiting years for the series to complete. Twelve different beers in twelve days at Engine 15:

This year our 12 Beers of Christmas will start Sunday, Dec 1 and go through Thursday, Dec 12. If you drink all 12 – punch card is being finalized – you will get a FREE beer (E15 pint) every day for the rest of the month.

And you will want to drink all twelve of these…

Day 1 Hot Chocolate Porter
Day 2 Mulled Apple Wheat
Day 3 Rudolph Red
Day 4 High On The Nog
Day 5 Pannetone
Day 6 Roasted Chestnut Brown Ale
Day 7 Oh Christmas Tree Spruce Ale
Day 8 Candy Cane Wit
Day 9 Cookies and Milk
Day 10 Three Wisemen
Day 11 Reindeer Stout
Day 12 Wassail

So let’s get through November and get to these delicious brews. You had me at Hot Chocolate Porter!

Engine 15 is also doing gift baskets this year:

This includes a 750mL bottle of our Anniversary Barrel-Aged Chupacabra Imperial Stout, 22oz bottle of E15 Christmas Quad, 2 branded tulip glasses and a branded bottle opener – all in a special fire engine box. We will be taking pre-orders Nov 7th – Dec 8th. Price $55.

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Intuition Ale Works announces cookbook

Intuition Ale Works, one of Jacksonville’s bastions of craft beer, has announced plans to build a cookbook based on recipes with their beer.

The cookbook, which will feature recipes from local cooks and chefs along with photography by local photographer Laura Evans.

Intuition released a teaser of a recipe recently, see the photo on the brewery’s Facebook page. This one is: “Arugula, honeyed goat cheese, yellow tomato and purple potato pizza with I-10 dough created by “Pancho” at Mellow Mushroom Jacksonville Beach.”

Pre-orders for the cookbook will begin in October for release in December. Preceding orders for the cookbook, Intuition will feature previews of featured food every Tuesday, beginning Tuesday September 24th. Recipes slated for inclusion in the cookbook will be served at the brewery in order to get reviews and feedback. For more information, see the Taste Test Tuesdays page.