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Swamp Head Brewery is sending cans to Tampa Bay

Press Release:  In response to demand for their canned beer in the Tampa area, Swamp Head Brewery announced today that they have begun distributing cans of Wild Night Honey Cream Ale and Big Nose IPA to Pasco, Hillsborough and Sarasota areas. Launch events are being planned throughout the month of March.

Six packs will be available at select grocery stores and independent bottle shops, as well as bars and restaurants throughout the aforementioned areas. The brewery currently distributes their cans in 36 counties in the North, North Central and Central Florida Areas, and is excited to be supplying beer to markets that have been requesting the cans for some time.

An exclusive release of cans of Stump Knocker, Swamp Head’s American Pale Ale, will occur at the Busch Gardens Food and Wine Festival, which takes place from March 4th through April 30th 2017.

The brewery feels that cans of their beer are a perfect complement to enjoying the natural beauty of Florida, and are a flawless fit for enjoying a day outside.

The new counties that will see a release of Big Nose IPA and Wild Night Honey Cream Ale, which will be distributed by Brown Distributing, will be: Pasco, Pinellas, Hillsborough, Manatee, Sarasota, Hardee, De Sota, Charlotte, Lee, Highlands, Glades, Hendry, Collier, Okechobee, Indian River, St. Lucie and Martin.

A full list of stores, bars and restaurants that already have Swamp Head’s cans available can be found on the brewery’s website at www.swamphead.com. Can launch events will be announced on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

Swamp Head Brewery’s dedication to the protection of Florida’s natural resources, as well as their goals for maintaining a small carbon footprint distinguish them from other Florida breweries. Swamp Head became the first Florida brewery to have a portion of their operations solar powered with the help of their solar partners, Solar Impact of Florida.

Swamp Head continues to distribute draft beer of all five of their year-round beers and select limited offerings throughout all counties in Florida other than Palm Beach, Broward, Dade and Monroe counties. Swamp Head Brewery announces new releases and expansion of their products via social media, such as Facebook, Instagram, and a monthly Brewsletter it sends to subscribers.

Swamp Head Brewery Wetlands Tasting Room

About Swamp Head Brewery
Swamp Head, founded in 2008, brews craft beer for the citizens and visitors of Florida. The brewery’s year-round beers include Wild Night Honey Cream Ale, Cottonmouth Belgian Witbier, Stump Knocker Pale Ale, Midnight Oil Oatmeal Coffee Stout and Big Nose IPA. The brewery also produces Spasmodic, Migrational, and Elusive Reclusive releases, which are available on a limited basis.

Hidden Springs Ale Works

Hidden Springs Ale Works celebrates Black Aggie Day this Friday

While much of the country will take to the stores this Black Friday, many craft breweries will be releasing specialty beers.  Tampa’s Hidden Springs Ale Works will be releasing their Black Aggie Imperial Stout and giving their fans several different draft versions of this fan favorite to choose from on the day they dub “Black Aggie Day.”  The brewery will also be extending their operating hours to stay open from Noon until Midnight on Black Friday/ Black Aggie Day.

From the Hidden Springs Newsletter:

BLACK AGGIE DAY
Join us for extended hours on Black Friday (noon – midnight) while we celebrate Black Aggie Day. We will have plenty of Black Aggie treatments on the board for a day of dark deliciousness.

Treatments Include:
Birthday Cake Aggie
Double Barrel Aggie (Bourbon barrel + Rum barrel)
Coffee Vanilla Nitro Aggie
+ MORE

Black Aggie Imperial Stout

About Hidden Springs Ale Works
Hidden Springs Ales Works is a craft brewery in the great Tampa Heights neighborhood just north of down town Tampa.  For more information, visit the brewery’s website or Facebook page.

Cigar City Brewing El Dorado Samiam

Four Tampa Bay breweries team up to create beer for Samiam

What is the result when three of Tampa Bay’s finest breweries team up with Slim Pickens Cider and Mead to brew a beer for the band Samiam?  A tasty beer, in this case it is called “El Dorado.”

Cigar City Brewing El Dorado SamiamFrom the Cigar City Newsletter:

A perennial favorite among the Cigar City staff, Berkeley, California’s long-running punk rock band Samiam sees heavy rotation not only around Cigar City but around many other Tampa Bay area breweries. When the opportunity presented itself to brew a beer with Samiam for The Fest in Gainesville and Pre-Fest in Tampa, we knew a few other aging punk rockers (aged, actually) in the Tampa Bay brewing community who would want to be a part of the action.

Along with our friends at Coppertail Brewing Co., Tampa Bay Brewing Company and Slim Pickens Cider and Mead, we developed this recipe with the guys from Samiam in honor of one of our favorite hops and favorite Samiam songs, El Dorado. The hop’s characteristic apricot and pear flavors are supported by a simple malt bill that allow the uniqueness of El Dorado to shine.

Look for Samiam’s El Dorado around Ybor City bars like Crowbar, The Orpheum, The Bricks and Cigar City Cider and Mead during Pre-Fest on October 26th and 27th and at venues throughout Gainesville during The Fest on October 28th, 29th and 30th.

This is the second time that Samiam has teamed up with Tampa Bay’s brewers and cidermakers, the first time was Capsized Cider.

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81Bay Brewing is grand opening this weekend

Press Release: 81Bay Brewing Company will be hosting their official Grand Opening on Aug. 13, 2016 and co-owners Michael Beard, Shawn Bowman and Keelan Cottle invite the community to a celebration in the brewery taproom. Since opening doors on June 10 with six inaugural beers, 81Bay has expanded its selection to 11 craft beers including; English Pale Ale, Belgian Raspberry Ale, American Light Lager, West Coast IPA, English IPA, English Porter, Irish Stout, Irish Red, Dunkel Weizen Bock, Black IPA and a Heather Ale.

Additional tap room updates include games for the whole family, a completed private event room that will serve as an art gallery, as well as completion of a multi-media mural by renowned, local artist, Sebastian Coolidge. Coolidge teamed up with local lighting designers, Pixel Rain Digital, to create a one of a kind, 3D projection mapped mural that you truly have to see to believe. The private event room, turned art gallery, will be open to the public and will showcase original pieces by acclaimed local artist, John Taormina.
Food trucks on-site for the event include Empamamas, The Barbecue Bus and Tambuzzo Sausage Company and guests may bring in snacks of their choice and non-alcoholic beverages.
WHEN: Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016 from 11am until…
DETAILS: Schedule of events is listed below.
  • 11 a.m. • New beers released
  • 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. • Happy Hour ($2 off drafts)
  • 1 p.m. • Live music by J.T. Brown
  • 2 p.m. • Cornhole Tournament
  • 4 p.m. • Live music by Forrest Hoffar
  • 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. • Growler Happy Hours
  • 5 p.m. • Table Tennis Tournament at 5 p.m.
  • 8:30 p.m. • Live music by Rachel Alex
  • 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. • Growler Happy Hour
  • 10:30 p.m. • Live music by Bangarang
  • 11:30 p.m. • Live music by OnlyOneTwo
Additionally the brewery has arranged a free shuttle service to and from Ybor. This will be a first come, first serve shuttle departing at the following times and locations.
  • Departing 81Bay Brewing Co., drop-off corner of N. 15th St. and E. 7th Ave.
    • 4:00pm– Depart 81Bay Brewing Co.
    • 5:00pm– Depart 81Bay Brewing Co.
    • 6:00pm– Last depart from 81Bay
  • Departing Ybor (N. 15th St. and E. 7th Ave.), back to 81Bay Brewing Co.
    • 6:40pm – Depart Ybor
    • 7:30pm– Last Departure from Ybor

81Bay Brewing Company is located at 4465 W Gandy Boulevard in Tampa.

81Bay Brewing

Coppertail Brewing celebrates the release of Independent Pilsner with a special program

Press Release: On Saturday July 16 and Sunday, July 17, Coppertail Brewing Co, the Florida inspired, Tampa brewed, brewery and tap room at 2601 East 2nd Avenue, will celebrate the release of its new Independent Pilsner by offering an Industrial Beer Amnesty Program. Starting at noon, lovers of independent, craft beer are invited to bring in an unopened beer from one of the giant industrial breweries to the Coppertail tap room, and have it swapped out for a fresh, locally brewed 12 oz bottle of Independent Pilsner.

“It’s all about getting those industrial beers out of people’s hands and off the streets so they won’t harm any more taste buds,” explains Kent Bailey, President of Coppertail Brewing Co, who opened the brewery in 2014 in Tampa’s Ybor neighborhood. “Today’s light industrial lagers are less expensive, less flavorful versions of German and Czech Pilsner recipes. We want people to know they have a choice when they’re looking for a beer this summer.”
Coppertail’s Independent Pilsner (5.1 ABV) is a traditional German Pilsner brewed with top quality Pilsen-style malted barley, German Fantasia and TNT hops, and lots of flavor. It features subtle bready notes, a crisp hop character and a clean finish. Most importantly, Independent Pilsner contains absolutely no rice, corn, syrups or other adjuncts. 6-Packs of Independent Pilsner will hit store shelves in the Tampa Bay area next week. Coppertail crafts flavorful beer for the Florida lifestyle. The brewing team, led by Brewmaster Casey Hughes, believes in time-honored, old-world production techniques. They utilize a natural carbonation process, use whole leaf hops and do not filter – because amazing things come to those who wait.

Throughout the weekend, people coming in to trade in their beers will also have the opportunity to sign the “Declaration of the Independent,” declaring their preference for local, independently-owned breweries over giant internationally owned corporations. The Declaration will then hang in the brewery. (Limit 1 can or bottle trade in per day per person. Supplies are limited. 12 oz bottles only available for consumption off premise.)

“These mega-breweries have been buying up small independent breweries all over the country. American consumers are not fooled. You can write America on your beer can, but it doesn’t make your company American,” Bailey explains. “Nothing is more American than Independence. Signers of the declaration are saying that when it comes to the beer you drink, independence matters.”

About Coppertail Brewing
Coppertail Brewing Co is located at 2601 East 2nd Avenue in Tampa where they brew, bottle and keg all of their own beer. Coppertail offers tours of the brewery Thursday through Sunday. The bi-level tap room features 26 taps and is open seven days a week beginning at 12 noon: Monday to Thursday, closes at 11 pm; Friday and Saturday, closes at 12 midnight; and Sunday, close at 7 pm. For more information, visit www.coppertailbrewing.com; or on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Coppertail’s Cap’n Jack is having a stone crab boil

Coppertail Brewing realized that they had a great problem when making Cap’n Jack’s Stone Crab Stout. This was a beer whose byproduct, aside from a great stout, was a boatload of stone crabs ripe for the eating. This year, their problem is Tampa’s delight, as they have brought in LoKo Cuisine to serve up some tasty victuals with these quirky crustaceans.

From Coppertail Brewing:

Each year our head brew master Casey brews up a hearty stout called Capt’n Jack’s Stone Crab Stout, named for Jack Davis, the Key West fisherman friend who sources the crabs, and steeps 200 pounds of Florida stone crabs claws in the boil to impart a savory briny note to the beer.

This year we’ve teamed up with LOKO Cuisine to create a stone crab stout boil dinner to celebrate this luscious chocolaty dark stout.

Tickets for this event may be purchased here: http://www.lokocuisine.com/crab-dinner/

Tickets are $50 each and includes : 2.5 pounds of stout boiled and chilled stone crab per person, 3 sides, sauces and your first beer.

To make things even sweeter were tapping 2014 Capt’n Jack’s Stone Crab Stout, Armagnac Barrel Aged Stone Crab Stout and Captain Caliente Stone Crab Stout pepper treatment exclusively for ticket holders.

Coppertail Brewing is located at 2601 East 2nd Avenue in Tampa. The Cap’n Jack Stone Crab Stout Boil will take place on December 10th. The trouble starts at 7:00pm.

SeaDog Brewing Company

Sea Dog Brewery Clearwater has a few surprises on tap this fall

Press Release:

Sea Dog Brewing Co Clearwater’s Master Brewer, Robert Baker, is known for his creative use of food-inspired brew and he’s just announced his Fall line-up. Most recently, his Shipyard Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout was chosen as one of 2015’s Epcot Food & Wine Festival featured drafts, proceeding his Maple Bacon Stout, featured in 2014. With 15 taps open daily, 7 are national brands and 8 are Bobby Brewer exclusives.

A few sweet-inspirations on Bobby Brewer’s tap this Fall include:

Chocolate Cherry Custard Milk Stout: 6.6% ABV | 32 IBUs
Dessert never tasted so good! Full bodied milk stout with strong chocolate and cherries up front with the creaminess of custard on the back. It will satisfy that sweet tooth!

Trick ‘R Treater: 6.7% ABV | 25 IBUs
This Reese’s Peanut Butter Brown Ale has a sweet nose of chocolate and peanut butter upfront, with a creamy body and hint of sweetness on the finish. As a medium body nut brown, it has the right balance of peanut butter and chocolate.

Danube Imperial Brown Ale: 8.1% ABV | 19 IBUs
Named after a Hungarian river, this full-bodied Imperial Brown Ale has been aged on dark Hungarian oak which adds a smooth earthiness. Bold flavors attack the taste buds with chocolate and caramel melding with wood tones. Pinkies up!

“Straight from Compton” Hard Root Beer: 8.0% ABV | 15 IBUs
This mean-mugging ale is perfect in any frosty glass. Flavors of traditional old-fashioned root beer are what you will find. Licorice root, vanilla, brown sugar, and sarsaparilla are flavors that stand out the most. This brew has a nice creamy body as we added lactose back to mix. Don’t let this brew trick you with its easy drinking profile, it will take you out!

Sweet Potato Pie Brown Ale: 4.9% ABV | 22.8 IBUs
This beer has all the flavors of a fresh warm sweet potato pie. Upfront, you catch notes sweet potato, followed by spice. Lastly, it finishes like a warm crust. It is full of flavors yet easy to drink. The dryness of the brown ale balances all the sweet undertones of the sweet potato.

Sea Dog Brewing Company Clearwater is located at 26200 US 19 North in Clearwater.