Engine 15 Brewing of Jacksonville and Jacksonville Beach is celebrating six years of craft beers at the end of June. The brewery intends to have a party of special magnificence to celebrate.
From Engine 15 Brewing:
We love celebrating our anniversary with all of you and releasing this year’s Imperial Chupacabra. We will have two nights to celebrate both of these glorious occasions.
Thursday, June 30th – VERTICAL CHUPACABRA TASTING
Starting at 6:30pm, we will host an annual Vertical Tasting of 2013, 2014, 2015 & 2016 Imperial Chupacabra. 35 lucky people will hear all about these beers, taste each one and get a commemorative glass to keep. There will be appetizers, a reception E15 beer of their choice plus time with the brewers to complete a great evening. Tickets are $35 and can be purchased starting Wednesday, June 8th by emailing david@engine15.com (no calls or walk-ups).Saturday, July 2nd – CHUPACABRA BOTTLE RELEASE
Starting at 11am, we will release bottles of the 2016 Imperial Chupacabra. The first 50 people will be able to purchase up to 4 bottles and get a commemorative glass – if you are one of the first 25 people you can also purchase one bottle of the limited 2015 vintage. The next 50 people can purchase up to 2 bottles. Get your spot early – we were sold out by 1pm last year!We will also have 35 Engine 15 beers on tap that day and with timed tappings of 15 special guest beers.
In the same newsletter, Engine 15 gives a small update on the progress of their downtown location:
The Downtown location re-zoning is moving along. This Thursday, June 9th our application goes before the Planning Commission. The Planning commission will review the application and determine if the proposed use is consistent with the city’s 2030 Comprehensive plan. We believe it is and hopefully the Commission will agree and recommend for approval.
Later this month on June 21st our application is scheduled to be reviewed by Land Use and Zoning. Once both of these are reviewed and depending on their particular recommendations and comments, we will have more information on the progress. So wish us well and we will update everyone with more information later in the month.
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.
That’s right. Engine 15 of Jacksonville has announced that soon there will be an “old-school” arcade as part of their taproom.
From the Engine 15 newsletter:
Welcome back to your childhood
We’ve cleared out space in the back of the brewery and what better to do with it than turn it into an old school arcade. Because you didn’t already love our tap room enough.The first games to arrive will be Galaga, Defender, Space Invaders, Ms Pac-Man, Centipede and SkeeBall that – what for it – spits out FREE beer tickets! Seriously.
We have gotten A LOT of feedback through social media on other games you’d like to see and we do have room for a few more so we will tally the votes and surprise you with a few more.
The space is finished and the games are due to arrive at the end of the week so get ready to get your 80’s on! Feel free to start growing your Tom Selleck mustache and wing your hair.
Engine 15 Brewing Company is located at 1500 Beach Boulevard in Jacksonville Beach.
Green Room Brewing Company of Jacksonville Beach has an upcoming bottle release.
Every year, the team at Green Room bottles a select number of their beers for release, the majority remaining draft only. One of their releases is always Quetzlcoatl, a special red ale.
From Green Room:
Its the Winter Solstice again and we are releasing our annual celebratory beer.
Quetzalcoatl Imperial Mayan Red brewed with Cassava root, Poblano and Serrano peppers, and chocolate.10% ABV
We will have both draft and bottles available. 500 bottles only will be filled and will be first come first serve
Live music, logo tshirts
Green Room Brewing is located at 228 3rd Street North in Jacksonville Beach.
Engine 15 has been keeping busy with their shiny new production facility in the La Villa area of Jacksonville. With the addition of so much new capacity, the Jacksonville Beach craft brewery has announced an entirely new lineup of beers and some forward-thinking on their brew schedule.
From the Engine 15 Brewsletter:
Things are certainly busy downtown! Our brewers have been working hard at our production brewery to create your favorite Engine 15 beers! We are concentrating on brewing operations while we continue to work the legal angles to bring you a biergarten at the La Villa location.
Downtown brewing is producing Double Nut Sack, (904) Weissguy, Route 90 Rye, and Old Battle Axe IPA. Shortly we will begin production of J’Ville Lager as well. While Nut Sack and Old Battle Axe are already distributed in bottles, next up is Route 90 Rye, available in bottles in a couple of weeks!
Introducing the Engine 15 “Frivolous and Ridiculous” line of beers! With all the room at La Villa we are dedicating space to crazy and delicious experiments! First up are a line of barrel soured beers the first of which will be Sour Sack (of course), Mmmm…tasty! Look for it in 750ML bottles and draft in the tap room in a couple months. We have a bunch of limited quantity “Frivolous and Ridiculous” beers coming your way in 2015 so stay tuned!
After trying to collect every pumpkin beer under the sun, Engine 15 Brewing Company is bringing Jacksonville an event that pours almost every single one, and that event goes down tonight.
From Engine 15’s newsletter:
Pumpkin carving was awesome last night and now our space is decorated for Pumpkin Palooza (starts at 4pm) which we know you all marked on your calendars. In case you forgot why you HAVE to be here, the lineup goes a little something like this…
**Release of Pumpmaster in Bottles and Draft**
Guest Beers on Draft:
Intuition Punk Monk
Green Room Jax-o-Lantern
Cigar City Good Gourd
Fat Head’s Spookytooth
Southern Tier Pumking
Uinta Punk’n
Uinta Oaked Jacked Pumpkin
Weyerbacher Imperial Pumpkin
Anderson Valley Fall Hornin
Alltech Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Pumpkin
Kasteel Pumpkin
Dogfish Head Punkin Ale
Smuttynose Pumpkin Ale
Red Hook Out of Your Gourd Pumpkin PorterEverything else Pumpkin!
A cask of Pumpmaster Aged on Volcanista Coffee and Madagascar Vanilla Beans
Pumpmaster Randalled through Baked Apples and GingerFood Specials:
Curried Pumpkin Soup w Toasted Pumpkin Seeds & Ginger Crema
Pumpkin Float: Pumpmaster and Pumpkin Spice Ice cream
Cinnotti’s Famous Pumpkin Doughnuts + Pumpkin ConfectionsThis is our first time hosting this event but it’s already looking like a fan favorite. Come out and try some delicious pumpkin brews & food. BRING YOUR GROWLERS – you know you’ll need to take some to your Halloween party, too.
Engine 15 Brewing Company is located at 1500 Beach Boulevard in Jacksonville Beach. Pumpkin Palooza is tonight, Thursday, October 30th. The trouble starts at 4pm.