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J. Wakefield Brewing to begin brewing this week

Johnathan Wakefield, Miami’s lauded homebrewer and new brewery owner, recently got in touch with supporters of his CrowdBrewed campaign to update them on the progress of J. Wakefield Brewing Company, or JWB. The highlights of the newsletter are:

*JWB should begin brewing on their commercial system at the end of this week.
*South Florida is still in dragon fruit season, so DFPF should be brewable for opening day.
*Construction has taken more money and time than anticipated.
*Tentative soft opening date is anticipated in December.
*No solid grand opening date has been announced just yet.

This is great news, as Mr. Wakefield hopes to join the ranks of Miami’s craft brewing community before 2014 comes to a close.

Wynwood Brewing announces next bottle release

Press Release:

The Wynwood Brewing Company announced the special release of its second beer bottle – San Francisco – a Belgian Golden Strong Ale aged in bourbon barrels for the past six months. The limited release of only 400 bottles is part of the Shipwreck Series which the brewery started with El Infante during their first anniversary celebration in August 2014. The special release will be at the WBCo. Tap Room on Wednesday, November 5 at 6 pm. The cost of the bottle is $20 and there is a limit of two per person. The brewery and the tap room are located at 565 NW 24th Street, Miami, FL.

The “San Francisco” beer originates with the WBCo.’s Father Francisco aged for almost six months in bourbon barrels. This Belgian Golden Strong Ale has acquired wonderful notes of bourbon, vanilla, cream, and a nice hint of charred wooden smokey-goodness. The artwork for the bottle was exclusively done for WBCo. by renowned Miami street artist Claudio Picasso – CP1.

Wynwood Brewing Company’s exclusive Shipwreck Series are named after famous Spanish galleons shipwrecked off the Florida coast. The “San Francisco” is one of the most beautiful ship wrecks from the 1730’s because of its location in less than 6 feet of water off Long Key Florida.

About Wynwood Brewing Company
Wynwood Brewing Company, which opened in August 2013, is the City of Miami’s first production micro brewery. It is located in the heart of the Wynwood Art District, featuring the brewery and an art-filled Tap Room. The brewery is family-owned by the Brignoni family and operates with the simple objective of “bringing fresh, delicious and creative beers to South Florida’s beer lovers.” WBCo. had an expansion in April 2014 which enabled them to triple its production. In September 2014, the brewery’s Pop’s Porter (Robust Porter) won a gold medal in the most prestigious competition for American beer – the Great American Beer Festival. The WBCo. beers are distributed to more than 200 establishments throughout Florida by Brown Distributing. The brewery and tap room are located at 565 NW 24th Street, Miami, FL.

Wynwood Brewing celebrates their GABF Gold Medal this weekend

Press Release:

Come and celebrate Wynwood Brewing Company’s Gold Medal win for its Pop’s Porter in the Robust Porter category at the Great American Beer Festival 2014! For the whole weekend the Pop’s Porter will be in a Happy Hour “kind of mood” with pints priced at $4 and growler fills at 15% discount. Get to know this delectable beer – which just won top honors at the most prestigious competition of American beer – during this weekend at the Wynwood Brewing’s Tap Room. The Tap Room is located at 565 NW 24th Street in the Wynwood Arts District.

Named after Luis “Pops” Brignoni – co-founder with his son Luis Brignoni of WBCo., Pop’s Porter is a Robust Porter made with “a blend of roasted malts that gives the beer a nice, roasty aroma with hints of chocolate and coffee. The malts contribute to the deep dark color of the beer.” The beer has an ABV of 6.2%, a Hoppiness of 41.0, and Color (SRM) of 36.9. Pop’s Porter gold medal is the first for a brewery in the City of Miami in the Great American Beer Festival 32-year history.

On Saturday, October 11 at 2 p.m. the Tap Room will be opening an exhibition by artist Alexis Frias a.k.a. 8BitLexicon and will be having a special cask tapping at 5 p.m. of The Piglitz – a 5gal firkin of a dry hopped Imperial Marzen brewed with Italian spring water aged on pumpkin pie and bacon. Live music concert by Inez and Kazoots will start at 8 p.m.

On Sunday, the Tap Room will open at 10:30 a.m. for a session of Om Brew Yoga with Shelah Davis. Fee for an hour long relaxing yoga session and a pint of beer is $15. Registration needs to be done online.

Concrete Beach six packs spotted in Miami

Concrete Beach Brewery, one of the Wynwood area’s future hot spots, has been spotted in local grocery stores in South Florida.

Concrete Beach Brewery recently released photos on their Facebook page showing their six-packs in Winn-Dixie with a promise that local Publix stores will soon stock their beer as well.

The first two beers released by Concrete Beach are their RICA Wheat India Pale Ale and STILTSVILLE Pilsner.

Concrete Beach is located at 325 Northwest 24th Street in Miami. No word yet on exact opening dates.

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J. Wakefield Brewery to open in October

He has worked and poured, poured and worked, and now Miami’s own Jonathan Wakefield says that the brewery should open in October of 2014.

According to an article posted by the Miami New Times, Wakefield has told them that he will be open after enough time to gather enough beer:

“We are in our last leg of the completion process,” Wakefield says. “We’ll start brewing at the end of the month. We need about a month to stockpile some wares before I open the tasting room. We’ll have the grand opening in October.”

Wakefield Brewing is located in the Wynwood area of Miami and upon opening Wakefield will be the third brewery to begin production in Wynwood, behind Wynwood’s eponymous brewery and Concrete Beach Brewing Company.

Wynwood Brewing expands distribution

Miami’s Wynwood Brewing is looking beyond the azure waters of Miami and expanding distribution further north into central and southwest Florida.

From Wynwood’s Facebook page:

We are excited to announce our journey into northern Florida with limited distribution in a few accounts just to get started… Keep an eye out for Wynwood Brewing Company up in Ft. Meyers/Naples, Orlando, Tampa, Tallahassee, and Jacksonville.

Looks like the new tanks and the brewery space previously announced are being put to good use.

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J. Wakefield Brewing begins construction

Miami’s craft beer future is tremendous.

South Florida in general and Miami in particular has a large number of breweries in planning. Some are closer to opening than others, but by and large, Miami is ripe and ready to solidify itself as a mainstay of Florida craft beer.

With Wynwood Brewing expanding before one year in business, Concrete Beach Brewing under construction, Gravity BrewLab hoping to be open by summer time, and now J. Wakefield Brewing Company has begun converting a facility in Wynwood to their brewery.

The brewery started construction this week and announced on Facebook:

We have been fully approved and construction starts monday. By God’s grace it will be done in 8-10 weeks, also we take receipt of our equipment April 14th. It is that much closer people.