M.I.A. Brewing Company in Doral began production in mid-2014, and the taproom opened the following January. This Saturday, February 20, the brewing company will celebrating its first anniversary in style with an outdoor party featuring food trucks, live music, and lots of beer. The party runs from 2 to 10…
California-based Pieology Pizzeria has made its way to Florida and set up shop in Miami. The fast-casual restaurant, which serves made-to-order pizzas in less than three minutes, is now open in the Fountain Square shopping plaza at 10141 W. Flagler St. in Fontainbleau. Pieology is doing for pizza what Subway…
Remember Lincoln’s Beard Brewing Company (LBBC) brewer John Falco and his offer to buy Anheuser-Busch InBev for only $26,000? Now he’s raising money — not to buy AB-InBev, but to open a brewery in the Bird Road Arts District. On Jan. 30, Falco and his business partners did what many brewers have…
Miami brewer Jonathan Wakefield was in Santa Rosa, California, this past weekend swigging some Pliney the Elders at Russian River Brewing Company at the RateBeer Best Awards and Festival January 30. Thousands of beer fans from as far away as China and Poland converged on the Northern California city to taste the world’s…
The fourth annual Miami Beer Festival is this Saturday — are you pumped? If you enjoy beer or appreciate the hard work that goes into hyperlocal home brews, you should be. Once again, the festival will be held at Marlins Park this Saturday, January 30, featuring breweries from all U.S…
Between January 23 and 30, South Florida Beer Week brings local beers from Broward and Palm Beach counties to Miami-Dade and no one has to make an hour, sometimes two hours, long trip north. Less money spent on gas leaves more for beer, right? But there’s plenty of Miami beer…
In 2012, New Yorker reporter Mattathias Schwartz covered the tribunal of suspected 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on two separate occasions at Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Each time, Schwartz was permitted to sit inside a separate room behind three panes of sound-proof glass and watch the tribunal in real time, but…
Miami has another spirit maker in town. It’s called Big Cypress Distillery and co-owner Fernando Plata received his federal permit from the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau on December 8. Located near the Tamiami Airport, Plata’s distillery is one of a handful in the county, along with Miami…
What do Four Peaks, Camden Town, and Breckenridge brewing companies all have in common? Announcements of their buyouts from Anheuser-Busch InBev all came within a span of less than a week. They’re just the latest breweries to be added to AB-InBev’s ever-increasing craft beer portfolio. With AB-InBev on a microbrewery shopping…
Good beer is not hard to find in Miami. This wasn’t the case more than two years ago, when locally devised or brewed-onsite recipes were few and far between. Since then, the brewing industry here has taken off and shows no signs of slowing. Now there are at least eight…
Soon, you’ll be able to drink Miami beers in the Caribbean. No, not on a luxury cruise, but in a bar on Sint Maarten—the Dutch side of the island Saint Martin. Doral-based beer distributor Most Wanted Beverages cut a deal with the owner of Perola Bar to have a lineup…
Earlier this year, the Federal Communications Commission approved net neutrality rules designed to prevent internet providers from speeding up the connections to certain websites, while slowing down others. But in September, U.S. presidential candidate and former Florida governor Jeb Bush said he’d repeal it entirely if elected. Someone didn’t like that…
There’s another brewery taproom opening soon in Miami. This time, Miami Brewing Company at Schnebly Redland’s Winery’s is set to open its new 10,000 square-foot taproom some time very soon. Brewmaster Jacob Lindsay told New Times that he was hoping to have the taproom open by Halloween debut, but had to…
When The Tank Brewing Company opens for production in the coming months, cigars will be front and center.. New Times last spoke with Tank brewmaster Matt Weintraub when he debuted Tank at this past February’s South Beach Wine and Food Festival. Now the brewery has a place to call home. The facility is…
Are you scrounging for beer money? You may be in luck because a Miami federal judge recently approved a $20 million settlement in a class action lawsuit that accused Beck’s beer for deceptive using labeling. In October 2013, Francisco Rene Marty sued the brand in Miami federal court because it’s…
Chicago’s Goose Island Beer Company is back in Miami for its annual Migration Week. They brought copious amounts of its famous Bourbon County Stout for you to drink during this week filled with beer dinners and events during Oct. 13-16. All of the remaining events are not ticketed and open…
If the idea of wearing a bathrobe and swigging a cold craft beer to the screaming chords of Molly Hatchet on a giant boat in the middle of the crystal blue waters of the Caribbean sounds like a good time, the Lebrewski Cruise was probably made for you. Departing from Miami…
Not wanting to strictly stick to a common lineup of beers that include stouts or pale ales, Gravity Brewlab’s Diego Ganoza is always making one thing or another that begs the question: you can do that with beer? For example, one of the beers Ganoza brought to the 2015 Great…
Unlike other breweries in Miami, Biscayne Bay Brewing Company does not have a taproom. And if you own a brewery, you need a taproom. Co-owner Jose Mallea said that he would have included one in the original construction, but the brewery’s opening would have been delayed for several months. But…
David Lincoln Hyatt, founder of the Miami-based Tavdash Records and the man responsible for discovering the talent of multi-hit recording artist R. Kelly, died on August 11 at the age of 65. Hyatt was reportedly suffering from stage four prostate cancer. Born in Jamaica in 1950, Hyatt served in the…
Back in early July, an Italian-based company called Hacking Team — which had been criticized for profiting by selling malware to regimes with poor human rights records — was itself ironically hacked. Its Twitter account taken over and a 400 gigabyte trove of internal information on the company in the form of emails…
Earlier this week, hackers dumped more than 40 million records from cheating website Ashley Madison. That’s sparked a nationwide scramble, with politicians grasping to explain why their info was on the site, the Pentagon opening a probe in the 15,000 government and military accounts included in the leak, and municipalities…
