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Cigar City to do away with pint glasses

The Cigar City Tasting Room and Beer Shrine has had branded glassware since they opened almost five years ago. Now, a source close to the brewery says that Cigar City will be doing away with the shaker pint in favor of Spieglau proper glassware.

The shaker pint glass has long been the standard of the beer-drinking world, but it does not give all the aromatics and nuances that every beer has to offer. Cigar City will now switch to the Spieglau lager glass, snifter/ tulip, and the IPA glass exclusively for beers served in their tasting room.

No word on how long the switch will take to implement, but the decision has been made.

For more information on Spieglau craft beer glasses, click here.

LauderAle Brewery is now open to the public

South Florida’s LauderAle Brewery has announced opening before. According to an article from drinklikealocal.com, LauderAle had a plan to open back in July with a soft opening for friends and then to the general public. The public response was so overwhelming that they had to shut down and buy additional fermenters to properly slake South Florida’s thirst.

Well, that time has now come. LauderAle is open and ready to meet their local fans. But that’s not all; LauderAle is also shopping around for a bigger system so that they are prepared to meet larger demand in the future.

LauderAle is located at 3305 Southeast 14th Avenue Building 4 in Fort Lauderdale.

Angry Chair Brewing Company’s tasting room

Angry Chair Brewing Company has paved the way to opening day with the sweat of their brows and the grey hairs on their heads. While the boys in Seminole Heights have their brewing system, their tanks, and their permits, they have just released a mockup of what their tasting room will look like through their design company, Livework Studios.

On Livework’s Facebook page is a picture of what Angry Chair’s tasting room will look like. Although, as a fan pointed out, the chairs look pretty calm and peaceful.

Angry Chair Brewing is located at 6401 North Florida Avenue in Tampa. They are not open yet, but are working furiously to open their doors before summer’s end 2014.

Saint Somewhere Brewing Company Logo

Saint Somewhere Brewing looking to move brewery

While many pieces of disappointing news came out of Tallahassee during the hearing on Senate Bill 1714. One piece of good and surprising news came from the testimony of Bob Sylvester of Saint Somewhere Brewing Company, Tarpon Springs’s craft brewery since 2006: Saint Somewhere is looking to move their brewery and open a tasting room.

While Sylvester was not able to give much information due to the minute time limit imposed on speaking, he was able to tell the Senate committee about his tasting room plans.

Aristocraft Brewing is crowdfunding their tasting room

According to Aristocraft Brewing, there are only five breweries currently serving the Orlando area. While Aristocraft hopes to change that number very soon by opening their brewery in Winter Park, they are asking for help from the online community via Kickstarter to help to generate cash for their tasting room and its fixtures.

Aristocraft is looking to crowdfunding for help and as a reward, backers can name everything from barstools, cooler, pool tables, the water fountain, to the solar energy system that will provide power.

To help fund Aristocraft or see more information on uses of money and rewards, visit Aristocraft’s Kickstarter page.

Orange Blossom Brewing plans brewpub

Orange Blossom Brewing Company, the recently rebranded home of Orange Blossom Pilsner, is looking into opening a brewpub on Virginia Drive in Orlando.

According to the Bungalower, a website covering the bungalow neighborhoods of Orlando, the brewery plans to open a small facility and tasting room at 1010 Virginia Drive in Orlando by summer 2014.

“The owners tell Bungalower they will have a small brewery on site brewing ‘some fun small batch beers.'”

Orange Blossom Brewing made headlines a few months ago when they, along with Tampa’s Cigar City Brewing, signed on to work with Lakeland’s The Brew Hub to brew large amounts of their beer for distribution.

Motorworks Brewing logo

Motorworks Brewing opens for business

Motorworks Brewing, one of Bradenton’s new craft breweries, officially opens their doors for business today. Yesterday saw a “Facebook Fans Preview” of the Motorworks Tasting Room, and today is their official opening to the general public.

Congratulations to Motorworks and their staff on this achievement.

Motorworks is located at 1014 Ninth Street West in Bradenton.