LauderAle Brewery opted to not pour beers at this year’s Great American Beer Festival (GABF), but that didn’t prevent judges from awarding a gold medal for the brewery’s C Porter last Saturday in Denver. Mike White, LauderAle’s head brewer, caught a last minute flight to the Mile High City to accept the award.
Oktoberfest in Miami isn’t the raging 18-day festival like the one in Munich, but there are still myriad fest-related events happening in town. Germany’s festival began September 16, yet the annual revelry associated with excessive beer consumption is just getting started in the Magic City.
Hurricane Irma turned out to be a close call for NightLife Brewing Company. The storm knocked out power to the brewery for several days, causing the temperature to rise and nearly spoiled most of the beer, says co-founder Juan O’Naghten.
To all South Florida residents affected by Hurricane Irma, some relief is headed your way via Anheuser-Busch. The beer giant isn’t sending ice-cold Buds, but 310,000 cans of drinking water produced by the brewing company in one of its facilities in Georgia. Irma’s eye made landfall sometime after 9 a.m. on…
Local Miami breweries are making sure you have a fresh supply of potable water to prepare for Hurricane Irma. From now until Friday, breweries are filling virtually any container with water — for free. If your stomach churns at the thought of drinking water out of the tap at home and you missed out buying bottled water at the store, there’s never been a better time for home brewers and beer enthusiasts put those empty kegs and growlers to good use.
Last month, federal agents and Florida state police joined forces in Miami to crack down on slotting fees, or the practice of paying retailers to prominently place a product. In this case, they were investigating local beer distributors, according to sources interviewed by New Times.
Peach-infused shandies, blood orange IPAs, and coconut-derived electrolytes. These are some of the beers, and their ingredients, that will be brewed at South Beach Brewing Company, which is slated to open this fall in Miami Beach.
There is a mead movement happening in Miami. In a city where craft beer has taken hold, local brewers are now making considerable quantities of the fermented honey drink known as mead. Mead consumption predates written history. Early Neolithic jars found in China with traces of rice, honey, and fruit…
The news was announced today following months of rumors that the Oakland Park brewery was in talks with the company. Funky Buddha joins the Constellation portfolio, which also includes such brands as Ballast Point, Robert Mondavi, and High West Whiskey.
If you love Miami Spice, try heading to another culinary scene happening just north of the county line: Crave GFL. Starting September 1, Crave GFL will feature more than 40 of the Greater Fort Lauderdale area’s top restaurants and chefs offering various tastings and dinners specially created for the event, including…
Wynwood’s Veza Sur Brewing Co. announced it will officially open to the public August 19. At the same time, Baja Bao, the casual eatery fashioned as a giant food truck, will open adjacent to the brewery. Veza Sur was founded by Bogota Beer Company’s Berny Silberwasser; Chris and Jeremy Cox…
BrewPro Consulting’s Alex Postelnek has discovered a way he and other beer-makers can reduce carbon dioxide emissions at breweries.
Four Miami breweries and several others across South Florida will head to the 2017 Great American Beer Festival (GABF) this fall to pour some suds from the Sunshine State.
Crystal Pepsi is coming back to Miami on August 14, possibly for the final time. PepsiCo confirmed the announcement July 19 that the clear soft drink is making a return for the “last” time. The soda’s comeback coincides with the Crystal Pepsi Throwback Tour, a multicity tour of music artists that made it big in the 1990s.
If you like tea, doughnuts, and ice cream, get them free this weekend in Miami.
Invasive Species Brewing secured more than $100,000 in funding from the City of Fort Lauderdale to help with the buildout of its new brewery, which will be located in Flagler Village at 726 NE Second Ave.
World of Beer Kendall at the Palms at Town & Country has closed, according to an eviction notice posted on the bar’s front door July 5.
Anybody in Florida who hopes to start a sake company might be a little disappointed to learn how the alcoholic beverage will be treated from now on. Beginning July 1, sake will be taxed higher, as a wine rather than a beer. The tax hike stems from House Bill 689, which Gov. Rick Scott signed into law last week.
M.I.A. Beer Company has partnered with Deb Fogarty of Be Well Travel and Norwegian Cruise Line for a four-day brews cruise from Miami to Cuba March 26, 2018.
The untimely death of Soundgarden and Audioslave vocalist Chris Cornell shocked fans and the music community. Cornell was found dead of an apparent suicide inside his MGM Grand Hotel room in Detroit this past May 18, just hours after performing his final show. He was 52.
North Miami will soon get its first brewery. Descarga Brewing Company is expected to open in September at 12355 NE 13th Ave., co-owner Manny Jannes says.
Florida loves beer — nearly $22 billion worth of it. That’s according to an economic impact report conducted by the National Beer Wholesalers Association and the Beer Institute released earlier this month that shows the beer industry contributed $21.6 billion to Florida in 2016.
