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Ormond Brewing to release Tequila barrel-aged beer on Dos De Mayo

Ormond Brewing Company does not celebrate halfway. The crew at Ormond Brewing are going all out for Cinco de Mayo, so much so that the Ormond Brewing Taproom is celebrating the Mexican holiday a few days early because they just could not wait to release this special ale.

From Ormond Brewing Company:

Ormond Brewing Co. has set the date for their next bottle release at their Dos De Mayo party on May 2nd. The bottles of “Donkey Jote Double IPA” will only be available through the taproom at first. This double IPA is loaded with 13 different hop varieties and then aged and dry hopped in anejo tequila barrels for a truly unique brew…

Ormond Brewing Company is located at 301 Division Avenue in Ormond Beach.

Ormond Brewing set to expand

Ormond Brewing Company of Ormond Beach has been operating for just over a year now and is set to expand the operation.

The Ormond Beach Craft Brewery has a good problem: they have been operating at capacity for the better part of 11.5 of the 12 months the brewery has been open. Now, according to an article in the Daytona Beach News Journal, the brewery will be adding “adding six new fermenters and two conditioning tanks that will expand its production capacity to 3,000 gallons a week, up from its present 270-gallon capacity. The brewery is also adding a canning machine.”

In addition, the brewery will be making the 4,000 square foot space next door to them into operational space (previously it has been used for storage).

About Ormond Brewing Company

Ormond Brewing Company is an Ormond Beach, Florida based craft brewer. Ormond Brewing Company began as a friendship between homebrewing enthusiasts. After meeting in 2011 and sampling one another’s brews and thereafter collaborating on many successful small batches of beer it was decided Ormond Beach, a city rich in history, lacked a craft beer culture. After uncountable hours of hard work in September 2013, Ormond Brewing Company became Volusia County’s first brewery.

Tomoka Brewery to host metal night in honor of Darrell Abbott

Craft beer has long been partnered with art as an illustration of how both take time, skill, and craftsmanship to produce. Craft brewers have sometimes made beers to show respect to those musicians who inspire them to their creativity. Tomoka Brewery of Ormond Beach is doing just that, and on the anniversary of a performer’s tragic death.

Tomoka Brewery will be honoring the late “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott of Pantera and Damageplan fame. Abbott was killed ten years ago when a crazed fan came onto a stage where Abbott’s band was performing and shot him dead.

From Tomoka Brewery’s event page:

We Will be hosting a night of Metal in tribute to one of Metal’s Greatest Guitarists Dimebag Darrell. Along with awesome music we will be serving Tomoka Brewery’s Imperial Porter on the Randall over Crown Royal soaked oak.

Tomoka Brewery brings dark ales for Black Friday

Tomoka Brewery, Ormond Beach’s first craft brewery, has a plan for Black Friday. That plan involves bringing all dark ales to their tap room while providing a respite from the holiday shopping bonanza going on around the world.

Tomoka Brewery will tap kegs of:

*Bourbon barrel-aged Peter the Great Russian Imperial Stout
*Palm Ridge barrel-aged Bittersweet Symphony Imperial Porter
*Hazelnut Chocolate Porter
*Black Drink Coffee IPA

Among other surprises.

Tomoka Brewery is located at 188 East Granada Boulevard in Ormond Beach.

Tomoka Brewery to tap Treatment Thursdays

Tomoka Brewery, Ormond Beach’s first craft brewery, has begun tapping a new treatment beer every Thursday. With this commitment, the brewery recently posted future treatment tappings for the month of November.

From the Tomoka Brewery newsletter:

November 6th: Pumpkin Pie Chai- Chai Spiced Pumpkin Saison
November 13th: Gluten-free beer- brewed with house-malted buckwheat, stone oven-toasted amaranth, and sorghum
November 20th: Ed’s Fantastic Randall- our Sage Peppercorn Saison through rum-soaked craisins

Tomoka Brewery is located at 188 East Granada Boulevard in Ormond Beach.

Tomoka Brewery announces fifteen barrel expansion

Tomoka Brewery, Ormond Beach’s first craft brewery, will soon be expanding their operation. Tomoka owners Peter Szunyogh and Jen Hawkins will are settling on a facility outside of Ormond Beach in Port Orange to house their fifteen-barrel brewing system and new restaurant. While the current facility makes one barrel of beer at a time for their eight-tap pizza restaurant, the new facility will have twelve taps and be able to brew fifteen barrels of beer at a time.

With two new partners, Tomoka Brewery’s Port Orange location is aiming for an opening date of late January 2015 for the new facility which will also house a brewery and restaurant. During the transition and beyond, the current Tomoka Brewery location will remain open for business. The new location will be housed at 4647 S. Clyde Morris Boulevard in Port Orange.

Tomoka Brewery is not sitting idle in the meantime. Currently Hawkins and Szunyogh are brewing a nut brown ale to benefit the Halifax Humane Society.

Engine 15 and Tomoka Brewery release collaboration

Ormond Beach- Tomoka Brewery and Engine 15 recently got together and did the fermentation dance, collaborating on a variation of Engine 15’s year-round Doolittle Saison. The time has now come to release that collaboration beer and to celebrate the release, Engine 15 is taking over Tomoka’s taps.

The takeover will happen this Friday, August 30th, at Tomoka Brewery. The event will feature Engine 15 and Tomoka’s Doolots Saison, as well as a treatment of the saison through a Randall with Basil leaves. In addition, many Engine 15 standards and some surprises will emerge. Tomoka Brewery has an event webpage for more information.

This beer is one in a chain of collaborations that has seen Tomoka Brewery collaborate with Green Room Brewing of Jacksonville Beach and Swamp Head Brewery of Gainesville. No word yet on future collaborations, but the Tomoka crew will soon pay host to a brewery of their own and brew on site at their pub in Ormond Beach.