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JDub’s Brewing to release Esperanza rum barrel-aged wee heavy

When JDub’s Brewery announced their collaboration with Drum Circle Distilling, Florida began the wait to bottling and release.

Now, Jdub’s owner Jeremy Joerger has recently announced that special day is coming soon:

we’ll be releasing our collabortation brew with Drum Circle Distillery, the makers of their multiple award winning, “Siesta Key Rum”. We have dubbed this beer, “Esperanza”, which is our Wee Heavy Scotch Ale aged in Siesta Key Rum Barrels. The event will happen Saturday, September 13, at 7pm. We’re bottling next week, but this will be an extremely limited release- we anticipate having only 300-350 (ish) bottles available for this inaugural batch. Price is $20 per bottle.

JDub’s Brewing Company is located at 1215 Mango Avenue in Sarasota. Look for more details as release date draws nearer.

JDub’s Brewing is coming to Florida’s east coast

Press Relase:

Sarasota-based JDub’s Brewing has announced plans to distribute their brews to Brevard, Orange, Osceola, Polk, Seminole, and Volusia counties beginning in mid-September. A handful of events in the Orlando area will be held to celebrate the launch the week of September 15, including the official launch at the World of Beer, Dr. Phillips location.

JDub’s has partnered with Lakeland-based Cavalier Distributing as their distributor for these six counties.

“We are extremely excited to be teaming up with Cavalier for the Orlando/ Daytona Beach markets. This is a perfect fit. Cavalier is relatively new in Florida, but certainly not new to craft. We’re confident that Cavalier Founder/CEO George Fisher and his team will be just as successful in Florida as they are in Indiana and Ohio, focusing solely on craft brands,” said JDub’s Founder/CEO Jeremy Joerger.

Cavalier will distribute draft only versions of JDub’s year-round beers Up Top! IPA, an American IPA with an ABV 6.75%, and Poolside Ale, a Kolsch with an ABV of 4.5%. JDub’s is the first Florida brewery included in Cavalier’s portfolio.

Official Launch Event

Monday, September 15, 6 p.m.

World of Beer – Dr. Phillips

7800 Dr. Phillips Blvd.

Orlando, FL 32819

Up Top! IPA, Poolside Kolsch, Habanero Honey Alt, Dulce Brown, and a brewer’s choice will be presented.

About JDub’s Brewing Company

JDub’s is committed to offering quality craft beer for the people of Sarasota and Florida. The company’s core values are Quality, Innovation and Culture. Each of these values tie into one another to shape the spirit and products of JDub’s. Head Brewer is Tom Harris, formally of Vermont’s Long Trail Brewing. JDub’s actively supports local charities and causes and is a veteran-owned business.

About Cavalier Distributing

Established in 1992 by Founder/CEO George Fisher, Cavalier Distributing is one of the only distributors in the country with a portfolio that is exclusively American craft and imports. Cavalier operates 250,000 square feet of warehouse space dedicated to bringing better beer in Ohio, Indiana, and Florida. Cavalier’s core values are quality, enhancing the customer and consumer experience with beer, innovation, and sustainability. The Florida warehouse is located in Lakeland. Cavalier employs nearly 200 employees throughout the three states and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.

JDub’s Brewing has a new flagship beer

JDub’s Brewing of Sarasota has announced that they are adding a new beer to their flagship lineup.

From JDub’s:

NEW FLAGSHIP! Our Poolside Kolsch Ale is in our tap room now and will hit a bar near you very soon! This light and refreshing brew is perfect for the summer days in our beer garden, at the beach or pool side!

JDub’s Brewing is located at 1215 Mango Road in Sarasota.

JDub’s Brewing to join Bern’s Legacy Series

Press Release:

This week JDub’s CEO/ Founder Jeremy Joerger and Brewmaster Tom Harris traveled up
to Bern’s steakhouse in Tampa. JDub’s is partnering with the iconic steakhouse to
create an extremely limited beer, sold exclusively in 750ml bottles at Bern’s. The beer
will be aged in a George Dickel whiskey barrel, hand-selected at the distillery by Bern’s manager Nate Wilson.

JDub’s is only the second brewery Bern’s has partnered with during it’s storied history.

The beer will be part of the Bern’s “Legacy” series. Legacy 1 and Legacy 2 were brewed by Tampa’s Cigar City Brewing. JDub’s plan for Legacy 3, is to brew a strong porter with smoked cherry wood, then age the beer in the George Dickel Whiskey barrel.

This beer is likely 2-3 months from it’s release. Stay tuned for details.

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Saint Petersburg and JDub’s collaborate

June 3rd in Saint Petersburg, JDub’s Brewing of Sarasota and Saint Petersburg Brewing got together to collaborate on Saint Petersburg Brewing’s first co-brewed beer.

From JDub’s Brewing:

JDub’s and St. Pete brewing will be teaming up to brew a collaboration beer at St. Pete brewing Compnay. As always, we’re stoked to collabrorate with our brothers and sisters in this wonderful industry, demonstrating the fraternital atmosphere of craft breweries. We’ll be teaming up to make a imperial red ale, and what’s even more special about this collaboration is that it will be the first conducted at the St. Pete Brewery.

No word yet on release details.

JDub’s Brewing partners with Siesta Key Rum

JDub’s Brewing of Sarasota is on a roll. Recently, JDub’s announced the addition of Up Top! IPA cans and now they have partnered with Siesta Key Rum to produce rums and beers with each other’s liquids.

In the words of JDub’s owner Jeremy Joerger, “this is another way for us to showcase our wonderful city, not just for its beaches, but also the local, high quality rums and beers that we produce here.”

While Joerger is short on specifics of which beer will be going in which rum barrels (Siesta Key has three brands of rum), he went as far to say “the first beer produced will be aged in American Oak barrels that were filled with Siesta Key Rum’s award winning, spiced rum.”

JDub’s Brewing of Sarasota featured on HGTV’s “New House, New Life”

Jeremy Joerger, owner of JDub’s Brewing Company, made a complete life change in order to open his own production brewery in Sarasota, but unlike many other folks who make this same change, Jeremy’s move was chronicled in a 30-minute television show on HGTV.

HGTV ran the Jdub’s Brewing episode of New House, New Life on Sunday night and it showcased the (albeit abridged) good and bad of building JDub’s Brewing in Sarasota- and thank goodness JDub stayed away from the water treatment plant. the episode combined with the usual moving and house hunting with the more intimate side of finding two new places to build a home and a brewery – both spaces found in a 30 minute time slot, bookended by the opening party at the brewery.

In the end, JDub’s opened at 1215 Mango Road in Sarasota and has not looked back since.