For over a year Hatuey beer has been making a comeback in South Florida, re-entering the market in the summer of 2011 and finding its way to bars and liquor stores. Then this month the company announced that it will start appearing throughout Broward store shelves and bar taps with…
A second round of Burgerlicious returns to Coral Gables tonight at Fred B. Hartnett Ponce Circle Park where you will be greeted by burgers galore.Between 6 to 10 p.m. you’ll be able to sink your teeth into gourmet burgers made by more than 20 of Coral Gables’ top restaurants. Cost…
“What’s your favorite restaurant?” That question got us all thinking. If we had to choose one top dog at gunpoint, what would it be and why? Recently Short Order bloggers began celebrate their favorite eateries — be they celebrity-chef-driven or a neighborhood hole-in-the wall. Why? Because we’re tired of having…
While Floridians were busy re-electing Barack Obama, voters in Puerto Rico yesterday participated in a referendum posing a fundamental question to their political status with the United States: statehood or no statehood?The first question on the two-part referendum asked voters if they wanted to change their relationship with the United…
BJ’s Brewhouse, a pizza and brewpub-style restaurant chain from Santa Ana, California, opened at the Falls Shopping Center yesterday.The location is the second in the Miami market for the casual-dining restaurant, having first opened in Doral on October 16. The latest restaurant opening is part of an expansion at the…
Beer snobs don’t trick-or-treat for candy, fool, they want beer. But to a beer snob, candy is beer, therefore you are going to need some sort of idea of what sort of beers they might be looking for on Halloween…
Jim Patton, brewmaster for Wynwood Brewing Company, Abita Brewing Company founder, anthropologist and craft beer pioneer died last Tuesday evening in Miami, he was 59. Luis Brignoni Jr., Wynwood Brewing Company founder, said: “It is with our deepest of regrets and sadness that we say goodbye to our brewer and friend…
This Saturday the Biscayne Brewers Exposition will be held at the Kovens Conference Center on the Biscayne Bay Campus of Florida International University, and will feature area brewers who are known for creating the best product in their line of work.What originally was going to be a home brewing competition…
There appears to be a new record-setter for beer. A team of microbrewers in Scotland at Brewmeister Brewery has made what could now be considered the world’s strongest beer weighing in at a whopping 65 percent alcohol by volume, or 130 proof.The beer is called Brewmeister’s Armageddon and is set…
Oktoberfest is out; pumpkin beers are in. But do they taste like a pie or a pumpkin? If you’re feeling a little apprehensive about drinking brew made from an oversize gourd, remember that beer is beer and that no two pumpkin beers are the same. There is a history of…
There is a mantra that goes something like this: do one thing and do it well. For Wynwood Brewing Company’s brewmaster, Jim Patton, that one thing is making good beer.Patton joined Luis Brignoni’s brewing operation last month. He, Brignoni and Luis Brignoni Sr. are currently preparing to open the first…
Back in August, Schnebly Miami Brewing Company set out to find a woman to be their Big Rod Ale Girl. Her beauty would be enshrined on tap handles across America.Schnebly’s searched for a model who could not only conform to the pin-up style, but whose personality empowered women. They chose…
Miami homebrewers are back, and this Thursday and Friday they’ll converge on LoKal Burgers and Beer in Coconut Grove to celebrate Oktoberfest with the first annual Home Brewers Bash. The event is a leadup to this year’s Grovetoberfest on October 13. Besides tasting some homebrewed suds that you will not find…
Oktoberfest in Germany this year wraps up on Tuesday, but the rage officially hit the East Coast Miami style, shattering the autumn apathy with two simultaneous festivals occurring in Brickell this past weekend. The Brickell Sam Adams Octoberfest, originally slated for Friday and Saturday only, was extended an extra day…
New Orleans-based barbecue fast-casual food chain VooDoo BBQ and Grill is coming to Kendall. The new Miami location is one of many opening in South Florida thanks to BBQ Boyz LLC, a Fort Lauderdale restaurant development company, which purchased rights to fund, develop, and operate up to 26 VooDoo restaurants south…
Big things are happening at Schnebly Miami Brewing Company. First the beer appeared at LoKal Burgers and Beer, then a short time later at World of Beer-Dadeland. Now: across Florida. Late last month, Miami-Dade’s first craft brewery signed a distribution contract with Doral-based Gold Coast Beverage Distributors, Inc.Gold Coast is…
For the second year, Brickell is getting in on this Oktoberfest business and celebrating arguably the largest beer festival in the world. It all takes place this Friday, October 5. Part of this year’s event is the Bier Garden Pop-Up Restaurant hosted by top Michelin-rated chef Wolfgang Ban. Celebrated Austrian chef…
Being a glutton may not fit well in Miami where cage-free, gluten-free, vegan-friendly, and lactose-intolerant eaters flout their eating habits like fashion statements, but all foodies have their places. For binge eaters or those who are just really hungry, these are buffets.We’re not talking about Shoney’s, but rather Brazilian steakhouses,…
Don some lederhosen and fill your stein, Oktoberfest 2012 is here. The Bavarian autumn holiday began several days ago but the fever is rising like the head of a freshly poured beer. And lucky for Miami, we all get to take the proverbial first chug at several locations around town…
Like Batman and Robin, Kirk and Spock, or Quixote and Panza, Estancia Culinaria and Wynwood Brewing Company are combining their powers Saturday, September 29, to throw down a party for charity in the countryside. The party is called Bites, Beats and Brews (BX3), and it’s a seven-course appetizer prepared by…
After hundreds of dirty jobs, Mike Rowe is taking a break to have a drink. Beginning Wednesday, September 19, you can have a drink with Rowe as he talks alcohol and hosts the world premiere of Discovery Channel’s three-part series How Booze Built America. Take a seat alongside Rowe at the…
Red Robin, the Colorado-based gourmet burger chain, has upped its status to next level awesomeness by adding a Sam Adams Oktoberfest beer milkshake to its menu. Once thought to be a taboo fantasy of beer snobs and dairyphiles, this milk shake is a sure sign that Oktoberfest is right around…
