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Maple Bacon Coffee Porter returns

Funky Buddha has announced recently that the festival of a release for Maple Bacon Coffee Porter will return again in 2015.

From Funky Buddha:

Maple Bacon Coffee Porter is back, baby!

Our annual bottle release and festival returns on January 10, 2015, so save the date!

This epic street party will take place all day and include a swarm of food trucks, special release beers, debut tastings, and bottles of MBCP itself.

This highly-sought after beer was last released on January 11, 2014 here at the brewery, and has since earned acclaim for its combination of sticky-sweet maple syrup, fresh roasted coffee, and salty-smokey bacon.

This beer will be packaged in 22 ounce bottles and sold exclusively at the brewery on January 10, 2015.

This bottle release will be part of a day’s worth of festivities that will include food trucks with breakfast-themed pairings, live music, and multiple bars both indoor and outdoors.

Food Trucks Include:

Springin Rollout, Sidecar Kitchen, Box of Chacos, Poblano’s Mexican Fusion, Diablo Dog, Frankie Dogs Gourmet Veggie Dogs & more…

For more information, visit:

https://funkybuddhabrewery.com/news-and-events/blog/maple-bacon-coffee-porter-festival-and-bottle-release-2015

Mark the calendars and gas up the cars, it looks like this will become an annual occasion.

Islamorada Beer Company tasting room opens this weekend

Miami in general and the Florida Keys in particular are on the verge of pouring a river of new beers from new breweries. With numerous beer companies in different stages of planning, there will hopefully be a time in the future when the Florida Keys are a destination for beer tourists in addition to every other kind of tourist that travels to the Southernmost Point in the U.S.

This weekend will see the addition of a new brewery tasting room to the beer scene of the Florida Keys. Islamorada Beer Company has been pouring their Sandbar Sunday Wheat Ale at events around South Florida and has announced the opening of their tasting room.

From Islamorada Beer Company:

The IBC Tasting Room is almost complete and will be opening Oct 31st come by and grab some of our new apparel items and try some of our great beers.

Islamorada Beer Company is located at 82770 Old Highway in Islamorada.

Due South Brewing is canning up a storm

Boynton Beach’s Due South Brewing began its time as a canning brewery by canning IPA and Caramel Cream Ale. Then the brewery began expanding canned offerings and canned Maple Orange Imperial Caramel Cream Ale.

Due South is now adding Cafe Ole Espresso Porter to their list of canned offerings for a total of five beers available in cans.

According to Jodi Halker of Due South, “Currently available in cans throughout South Florida: Caramel Cream Ale, Category 5 Double IPA, Category 3 IPA, and Maple Orange Imperial Caramel Cream Ale from the Curiosity Series.”

Fat Point Brewing IPA release sells out

Fat Point Brewing Company, Punta Gorda’s craft brewery definitely has a good thing brewing. And like news of a great beer, word of mouth carries a long way. Amplify that with the fact that this is Punta Gorda’s first local brewery and anticipation of opening reaches an almost fever pitch.

When Fat Point announced that the brewery was hosting a release party for their Ryeght Angle IPA, tickets were posted online. Within 72 hours, the party was sold out.

The event, taking place this Saturday, August 16th, will be part of a series of events designed to make the public aware of the kinds of beers Fat Point is looking to pour.

From Fat Point’s Facebook page:

SOLD OUT – Over 200 tickets for our Ryeght Angle IPA Release Party sold out in under 72 hours. We truly appreciate the support and are looking forward to an awesome event. Unfortunately, the sellout means we won’t be selling tickets at the event. See you Saturday!

Due South Brewing now offering crowlers

Due South Brewing has an answer to the classic beer enthusiast problems of no glass allowed on the beach combined with the desire to drink the freshest beers while outdoors. The answer? The Crowler.

The Crowler is a 32oz can-growler that is filled and seamed onsite and keeps the beer fresh the same way that a beer can does. The cost? Just add $1 to the cost of a growler fill.

Due South put their Crowler machine in service on June 5th and is the second Florida brewery to utilize such a machine for growler fills.

Funky Buddha Brewery

Funky Buddha’s expansion

There seems to be a race going on in South Florida. Not a cutthroat, winner-take-all race, but instead a friendly race to see who is going to be South Florida’s top craft beer producer. With a slew of new breweries looking to bring their liquid wares to the long bereft South Florida masses, many of the existing breweries are blazing a trail for the newbies to follow.

Enter Funky Buddha’s expansion. The Funky Bunch cannot make beer fast enough to slake the outrageously thirsty South Florida market, but they have heard the call of Buddha backers and they have answered by adding three new 120-barrel tanks.

According to the Funky Buddha blog:

These tanks will double our current capacity, allowing us to expand even further.

We’ll post more pics when these tanks arrive and get placed. But this is exciting news for us, as it means continued expansion throughout the state of Florida and bigger batches of our special releases will soon be on the way. That means more bars and restaurants will be carrying more of our special release beers to keep the thirsty masses sated!

Two of these tanks are fementation vessels, and will be used exclusively to brew Hop Gun IPA and Floridian Hefeweizen, our two flagships. The third vessel is a brite beer tank, which allows us to clarify, carbonate, and package our beer.

So, in short, more Funky Buddha beer will be on the way soon.

Barrel of Monks Brewing Logo

Barrel of Monks Brewing gets approval

Boca Raton is soon going to be riding a wave of beer from all of the new South Florida breweries that are in various stages of opening. Barrel of Monks Brewing Company is a labor of love for owner Bill McFee, and Tuesday night he got one step closer to opening: the Boca Raton City Council passed a resolution for a conditional approval of the brewery’s location.

From the Broward New-Times:

Barrel of Monks will be a 9,136-square-foot brewery, including an 867-square-foot tasting room. Most of the space will be taken up by brewing equipment and the necessary storage requirements to maintain production to one of the local distributors.

The attached tasting room is being slated to operate from 4 to 8 p.m. during the week and from 2 to 9 p.m. on weekends. This is partially due to conditions laid down from all parties involved that revolve around traffic and parking requirements.