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Coppertail Brewing updates opening timeline

Tampa’s in-the-works craft brewery, the cool one that hosts the pop-up tastings, and the one that has had some great festival beers, Coppertail Brewing, is on its way to opening day, but they have hit a few snags.

As such, owner Kent Bailey has posted a revised timeline for Coppertail’s opening:

Our latest schedule is as follows:

End of August: We’ll start getting draft beer out to local bars.

Also, we’ll open a small, temporary tasting room so people can gather for tours and taste the beer.

September: We’re planning another free pop-up tasting and it’s shaping up to be the best one yet. Keep an eye on our social media for details.

November: We’re scheduled to open our real tasting room and throw a grand opening party. (You’re invited.)

Also, in November we hope to start getting our bottled beer on a shelf near you.

Keep working, Coppertail! Look for Coppertail at Tampa Bay Beer Week’s Halfway There festival and a few other places around town.

What will Coppertail’s labels look like?

Coppertail Brewing Company has announced a timeline to opening day, and so far the Coppertail gang is toiling in the Ybor City sun to stay on target. But that does not mean they cannot have a little fun and tease Tampa with label artwork.

While head brewer Casey Hughes has fired up the industrial-strength brewing system and is brewing like a fiend, Coppertail owner Kent Bailey has been working to get artwork finalized for Coppertail’s beers. Bailey took the opportunity in a recent blog post to tall about their label artwork. “We aim to create labels that stand out from the others on the shelf. We really don’t care if they appeal to everyone’s artistic taste as long as they look unique and distinctive. We wanted to find an independent artist who could create artwork that would complement the hand-crafted and off-beat nature of the liquid inside.”

Coppertail Brewing’s Unholy Trippel

As a final update, Bailey posted that the work continues to get Coppertail’s beer on the market:

There’s a brew going on in the back as I type. There have been quite a few hiccups (a leaky vessel here, a faulty part there) but it seems that we’re getting all the kinks ironed out of the system as we go along. We still think we’ll have some kegged beer made on the big system out in the market by the end of July.

For the full update, check out Coppertail’s blog.

Coppertail Brewing is an up-and-coming brewery in the Ybor City area of Tampa. The brewery is located at 2601 East 2nd Avenue, and is not currently open to the public.

Darwin Brewing Company eyes an opening date

Since announcing their intentions to build a production brewery in Bradenton, Darwin Brewing Company has been building momentum and constructing their new home. Well, their new home took one giant step closer to reality yesterday when their brewhouse was delivered.

Darwin Brewing Company’s new home at 803 17th Avenue West in Bradeton will be a 6,000 square foot warehouse, playing host to both the brewery and its tasting room.

When asked about the new brewery by the Bradenton Herald, Darwin Brewing Company owner, chef Darwin Santa Maria said that he will have his brewing license next month and if all goes well, possibly open “while the Pirates fans are still in town.”

“It’s still our goal: maybe we get the end of spring training,” he said. “But we believe we’re going to make things right. Spring training is not going anywhere, so people are going to be seeing what we’re doing over here and get excited.”

Coppertail Brewing making progress toward opening day

Coppertail Brewing Company in the Ybor City area has been generating buzz since they have poured at several festivals earlier in 2013. The brewery has recently posted some new information to their blog highlighting some key items in their history and development:

*First, Coppertail and staff are pushing hard towards opening in March of 2014.
*Second, the brewery has its federal brewer’s permit (a key step in becoming a legitimate brewery).
*Coppertail has received their wet-zoning from the Tampa City Council. This is no easy feat and nothing is a sure thing when going before the Tampa City Council, but this step ensures that the brewery can have a tasting room and pour their beers on site.
*Construction permits and the speed of the permitting process have made the idea of a March opening a stretch for Coppertail, but the tone of the post is optimistic:

“For a couple weeks we’ve been told we should be getting the permits any day now. We need to get started on that work immediately if we’re going to stay on schedule for a March opening. The people at the city have been kind and are working with us, but I just hadn’t realized how slow this process moves. Cross your fingers that we’ll get those permits in hand soon, or we won’t have anywhere to put all our brewing equipment when it arrives in late December.”

*Finally, the brewhouse fabricator in Germany has told Coppertail that the brewing equipment is almost finished, and they are flying overseas to see the equipment firsthand. The equipment is expected to arrive in late December.

via Coppertail blog