Press Release: As the fest season approaches, 3 Daughters Brewing in St. Petersburg announced the release of its Oktoberfest beer this week, a festbier brewed in honor of the Bavarian celebration of beer. Crafted in the traditional German fashion with all noble hops, the Marzen-style amber lager is an easy-drinking beer with a lighter body, some bready sweetness, and relatively little hoppiness.
Press Release: With sales of its canned beers doubling during the past six months, Saint Arnold Brewing Co. (www.saintarnold.com), the oldest craft brewery in Texas, is expanding its canning program to include two additional year-round brews. Six-packs of 12-ounce cans of Saint Arnold Weedwacker and four-packs of 12-ounce cans of Saint Arnold Endeavour Double IPA are arriving in stores this week.
Saint Arnold introduced cans about 18 months ago with its top selling year-round beers, Saint Arnold Fancy Lawnmower Beer and Santo joining the Houston brewery’s rotating seasonals. When Saint Arnold introduced Art Car IPA and Saint Arnold 5 O’Clock Pils last year, both were launched in cans rather than bottles. During the past six months, Saint Arnold’s canned beer sales have jumped 110 percent, with cans making up nearly one third of Saint Arnold’s total packaged beer sales.
“There are a lot of things to like about cans – they are easy to carry to the beach and the pool, won’t break, they protect beer from light and are easy to recycle,” said Brock Wagner. “I have to admit that I used to be among those who viewed craft beer in cans with some skepticism, but the level of community acceptance and enthusiasm for cans has made a believer out of me.”
Also arriving in stores, restaurants and pubs throughout Texas, Louisiana and Florida are cans of Saint Arnold Oktoberfest, which is replacing dwindling supplies of Saint Arnold Summer Pils. Each of the new cans features the updated and refreshed Saint Arnold label art introduced earlier this summer.
Saint Arnold Weedwacker has won a medal at the Great American Beer Festival in the German-Style Wheat Ale category for the past three years running – including a Gold Medal in 2015. Saint Arnold Endeavour Double IPA was originally brought to market as Saint Arnold Divine Reserve No. 11. It won the Silver Medal in the highly competitive Imperial IPA category at the 2012 World Beer Cup. Saint Arnold Oktoberfest is a 3-time medal winner at the Great American Beer Festival in the Scottish-Style Ale category.
The new cans of Saint Arnold Weedwacker and Saint Arnold Endeavour Double IPA will phase out 12-ounce bottles. Endeavour will still be available in 22-ounce bottles and both beers will still be available on tap.
About Saint Arnold Brewing Company
Saint Arnold Brewing’s 10 year-round beers, seven seasonals and three special series – Divine Reserve, Icon and Bishop’s Barrel – are made and sold by the company’s staff of 80 dedicated employees. Saint Arnold beers have won 21 medals at the Great American Beer Festival. The brewery on the north side of downtown Houston was listed by Thrillist among the best breweries in America for eating, and Smart Meetings magazine named it among the top breweries to host an event. Saint Arnold is located at 2000 Lyons Avenue and its beer hall open at 11 A.M. Monday through Saturday. For more information, visit www.saintarnold.com.
Press Release:
On October 24th and 25th, JDub’s Brewing Company will host a two-day “Oktoberliner Fest” at the brewery. On Saturday and Sunday, from 2pm-6pm, 20 varieties of Berliner Weiss styles will be available in 6oz serving glasses. The cost per pour is $3.50,10 tickets for $30 or unlimited pours throughout the weekend for $75. Various styles of German beers will also be available for purchase in our taproom. Follow our social media pages for details.
Jeremy Joerger, Founder/ CEO of JDub’s Brewing Company and self proclaimed “desk weenie” says, “I lived in Germany for 6 years and loved Oktoberfest season. Now that I have a brewery, I get to create an event that mimics the spirit of the German Oktoberfest and put an individualistic ‘JDub’s spin’ on it”
* German Oktoberfest music will be played in the taproom and during the event. Lots of it. Traditional and silly Oktoberfest garb is strongly encouraged.
About JDub’s Brewing:
JDub’s Brewing Company is a production craft brewery & taproom located in sunny Sarasota, FL. Everything we do is based off our three core values of Quality, Innovation and Culture. Each of these values ties into one another to shape the spirit and products of JDub’s. Our beer can be found at your favorite watering holes throughout Florida and in our taproom at the brewery.
This Saturday, Fort Myers Brewing Company will bring a little Bavarian spirit to Southwest Florida as they don the white and blue checkered spirit of Oktoberfest.
From Fort Myers Brewing:
This Saturday: Plan to join us for Oktoberfest – our biggest event yet. Twenty-nine (29!!) beers rotated throughout the day! MOFOS and The Nosh Truck serving up good food! Live music from the TrOUbLeMaKerZ in the evening. Cornhole, hula hooping, giant jenga all day. And, of course a beer mile … if you haven’t participated or watched one of these, you are missing out! Drink a beer, run a quarter mile … repeat 3 more times! Sign up for the beer mile here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beer-mile-oktoberfest-event-tickets-13067841265 And whether running or not, mark you calendar, plan for a safe DD and spend the day with us this Saturday! (Rain or shine, we have indoor extra indoor seating & play areas if it rains)
Fort Myers Brewing is located at 12811 Commerce Lakes Drive in Fort Myers.
Press Release:
Orlando’s only local, organic microbrewery to commemorate over 200 years of German tradition with an 8th annual Oktoberfest celebration. At 1pm on September 20th a tribute to the Bavarian festival will commence with the ceremonial tapping of the brewery’s 2014 organic Oktoberfest bier. The celebration will continue all day with German food by Vital Flair Catering, a 3pm Cornhole tournament, traditional German music by Dan Witucki & Mein Heimatland Musikaten beginning at 4pm, and 17 taps of their local, organic beer, 16 of which were brewed in accordance with the Reinheitsgebot.
While ‘Reinheitsgebot’ may be difficult to pronounce, the concept is simple. This 1516 German Purity Law decrees that beer is to be brewed with three ingredients: water, hops, and malted barley — no additives, no adjuncts. The law was later revised to include a vital ingredient, yeast, after its 1857 discovery. Orlando Brewing provides Central Florida with many beers brewed in accordance with this time-tested tradition, and Oktoberfest is no exception.
This organic marzen bier was brewed with deep-well, charcoal-filtered hard water from the Floridan aquifer, lager yeast, organic Hallertau hops and organic two-row Munich, Carapils and Caramel malted barleys. The result is Oktoberfest, a medium bodied European amber lager with deep, rich malt character. It begins with an initial malty sweetness and finishes moderately dry with low hop bitterness.
Orlando Brewing will release a limited number of 2014 commemorative mugs. The 24oz mug will bear this year’s Orlando Brewing Oktoberfest logo, come with two free fills of Oktoberfest bier and grant entry into the taproom’s Mug Monday. Every Monday Oktoberfest mug owners may fill their 24 oz mug for the price of a pint. The mug also entitles $5 fills of Oktoberfest beer from September 20th to October 13th, while supplies last. Patrons are encouraged to preorder their $25 mug, as supplies are limited, and all preordered mugs will come with a free 2014 Oktoberfest shirt.
Orlando Brewing will continue to celebrate Oktoberfest through October 13th with a series of events.
About Orlando Brewing:
Orlando Brewing is the only USDA certified organic brewery south of Vermont and east of Colorado and was the first brewery to be declared “Fresh From Florida” by the Florida State Department of Agriculture. They have been proudly providing their community with fresh, organic handcrafted microbrew since 2006. Free brewery tours are available six days a week at 6pm, and free original live music starts at 9pm every Friday and Saturday night. Orlando Brewing’s taproom sports over 20 taps and is family – and dog – friendly. For more information about Orlando Brewing, please visit: www.orlandobrewing.com.
Press Release:
Saturday, September 20 our doors will open at noon in coordination with the opening of the Munich Oktoberfest in Germany!
Brewmaster Jorge Rosabal, trained and educated in Germany, will be releasing Finchtoberfest Marzen-style Lager – a medium-bodied amber lager. We will also have 13 additional DBC beers on tap to enjoy.
In celebration of this special occasion, you will have the option to purchase a Darwin Brewing Company Oktoberfest Stein – a limited amount will be available. $20 will get you the stein to keep, plus your first fill of Finchtoberfest for free. Bring your stein to the brewery any day we are open for Finchtoberfest refills for just $8 through October 5th.
Free food will be catered by Darwin’s on 4th between 2pm and 6pm. Chef Darwin Santa Maria will be manning the grill making traditional German bratwurst with a Peruvian twist and more.
Live music will be provided by the Jason Haram Group!
Check out the Darwin Brewing Company Facebook Page for more information.
Darwin Brewing Company is located at 803 17th Avenue West in Bradenton.
Motorworks Brewing of Bradenton has been cranking out the beers lately. Aside from a few beers resting away in brewer Bob Haa’s barrel project, he seems to be turning taps and quenching thirsty patrons at racecar speeds.
Well, aside from the many styles of beer offered at Motorworks, the brewery will be participating in the Old World tradition of Oktoberfest. In a recent newsletter, they made their plans known.
From Motorworks:
Join us Sept. 26, 27 & 28 to enjoy a variety of German styles of beer, including our very own MB Oktoberfest! Enjoy live music each day, with German cuisine and activities that will entertain for hours! Get your Lederhosen out, because we will be having our Human Lederhosen Costume Contest Saturday evening and our Pet Costume Contest Sunday afternoon! We will also be hosting Stein Hoisting Competitions, Stein Races, Alphahorn Name That Tune, Yodeling Contests, Flip Cup and other fun activities!
Motorworks Brewing is located at 1014 Ninth Street West in Bradenton.
In addition to slaking the thirst of Bradenton, Motorworks is also going to be rolling out distribution into the Tampa Bay Area next week.
Again, according to Motorworks newsletter:
Join us next week, as the Motorworks Brewing Team hit[s] the streets to introduce Motorworks Brewing to the Tampa Bay area! Be sure to stop by one of these fine establishments to be one of the first in the Bay area to try our beer, while chatting up owners and head brewers!
Thursday 9/18:
6:00 to 8:00 – Stine & Vine – 827 W Bloomingdale Ave, Brandon, FL 33511
8:30 to 10:30 – New World Brewery- 1313 E 8th Ave, Tampa, FL 33605Friday 9/19
6:00 to 8:00 – Mr. Dunderbak’s – 14929 Bruce B Downs Blvd, Tampa, FL 33613Saturday 9/20
6:00 to 9:00 – Independent – 5016 N Florida Ave, Tampa, FL 33603