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Cigar City improves El Catador signup

Tampa- Tomorrow is the day that hundreds of Floridians were planning on to sign up for Cigar City Brewing’s Reserve Society, El Catador Club. Alarm clocks were set and many folks were hoping to be in line long before the 5pm selling start. Then the clock struck 9pm on Saturday evening.

Cigar City Brewing posted a change to the agenda: there is now no limit to the amount of memberships sold in person on Sunday, July 21st. While one person can only buy one membership, no one will be turned away because of a quota or cap on membership. Anyone who shows up between 5pm and 11pm in person at the old Sears building across the street from Cigar City Brewing (look for the “Cigar City Parking” sign) is guaranteed a membership. That’s right, guaranteed a membership. There is no longer a cap at 1,000 people.

The brewery tasting room will be open normal hours, but will not handle a single signup, all of that will take place at the Sears building across Spruce street (see the graphic for details).

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Web sales will still take place with details to follow.

Coppertail Brewing works on first beer

Newcastle, Maine- Coppertail Brewing Company, one of Tampa’s up-and-coming breweries looking to join the Class of 2013, is currently working on their first official beer. There is only one problem: they are not really able to make beer in their current setup. In many other American industries this would prove to be problematic, but not in craft beer. Craft beer continues to turn competing companies into good friends, thus it is only fitting that Coppertail’s first brew be born as a collaboration beer.

Back in June Coppertail’s head brewer Casey Hughes left on a jetplane for the Pine Tree State. There, he met friend and fellow brewers Tim Adams and Mike Fava of Oxbow Brewing Company and they chose to make a grisette (a Belgian style akin to a saison farmhouse ale, but a bit lighter) for the Oxbow/ Coppertail collaboration. The brewers used locally-grown spelt to make the beer and will hop and dry-hop it with an experimental hop known as Azacca. The beer should finish at about 5.4% ABV and hopefully a small amount may make it to Tampa.

For more details, see the Coppertail blog.