For the eighth year, New Times will bring together local and national brewers for Brew at the Zoo this Saturday, May 6, at Zoo Miami. It’ll be a chance to taste what’s established and emerging in the craft beer industry. On the list of 100-plus beers are dozens of established local breweries and some that are slated to open for production by this summer in Miami-Dade County.
What started as an obsession for Tatiana Johnson eventually morphed into Señor Pop, Johnson’s side hustle-turned full time gig of containing the flavors of south-of-the-border beer cocktails into non-alcoholic beer popsicles.
The ninth-annual Rum Renaissance Festival was filled with pirates, tiki mugs, and plenty of rum. Though the spirit is best identified with the islands of the Caribbean, rum is made throughout the world.
The Tank Brewing Company taproom opened this week, making the craft brewery the latest in Miami to pour beers onsite for the public. The announcement was made on the brewery’s social media, which invited the public to an informal “sip and discuss” event and preview to mark the occasion. Owner Carlos Padron says he opened the taproom following a week of inviting test crowds of various sizes.
On May 6, Miami will get wild when the eighth-annual New Times’ Brew at the Zoo takes over Zoo Miami for an evening filled with beer, music, fun, and wild things. From 8 to 11 p.m., sample more than 100 beers and spirits from dozens of distillers and breweries from around the world.
Wynwood is getting a new brewery. Veza Sur Brewery, a collaboration between Colombia’s Bogota Beer Company and Oregon’s 10 Barrel Brewing, is set to open at 55 NW 25 St. early this summer. The 10,000-square-foot space will include a 15 barrel DME brewhouse and 5,000-square-foot taproom with a terrace.
The True Bleau cocktail contains Barr Hill gin, grapefruit soda, and a massive spherical indigo ice cube infused with pea flowers. This colorful drink can be found at Sorso, a pop-up cocktail lounge that’s slated to run through the summer at Scarpetta at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach.
On May 28, the local women’s advocacy group the Fem Collective will present the FemAle Brew Fest, what event organizer and Fem Collective CEO Frances Antonio-Martineau calls not only South Florida’s but also the country’s first craft beer festival celebrating women in the brewing industry.
Ariel, the Little Mermaid, is all grown up, and she’s shaking her fins for you every Friday and Saturday night at the B Ocean Resort’s Wreck Bar on Fort Lauderdale Beach. The bar has been taken over by chef Ralph Pagano, who also owns the Naked Crab at the resort.
National Beer Day is an unofficial holiday with all the trappings of an official one, particularly one that involves drinking beer.
Sprung!, Wynwood’s spring beer festival, has evolved from its original spring-break theme a few years ago. Gone are giant Jenga and human bowling, replaced by a beer-aficionado vibe. That’s not to say the festival was a staid affair: After all, with an chance to sample more than 300 beers in one sunny afternoon, attendees were ready to make merry.
A few years ago, if you were heading out to the bar for an ice-cold beer, you’d be hard-pressed to find a locally brewed one on tap anywhere in the tri-county area. In 2010, there wasn’t a single production brewery in Broward or Palm Beach County and only a handful of brewpubs crafting their own suds.
The Employees Only brand is undergoing an expansion, with the original partners each opening a outpost in Singapore, Austin, and Miami Beach. The SoBe speakeasy opened last month, just in time for the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. Though housed in the most Miami of locations — a vintage coral-rock house on the grounds of the Washington Park Hotel — the intimate bar maintains its New York vibe and sensibilities.
Biscayne Bay Brewing Company co-owner Jose Mallea kicked off his candidacy for the Florida House of Representatives this weekend. He took to Twitter Saturday to make his announcement.
Today is National Cocktail Day. Sure, it’s another made-up holiday, but any day that requires you to hoist a few drinks is worth celebrating. Plus, it’s Friday, which makes imbibing a no-brainer. So raise a glass to some of Miami’s best spots commemorating this day with special drinks and discounts…
The Sprung! Spring Beer Festival April 1 doesn’t highlight just the local craft brewing industry. It’s also an event meant to bring people together, says Tony Albelo. It’s why the event organizer decided to move the springtime festival from Peacock Park in Coconut Grove to the old RC Cola Plant in Wynwood last year. Relocating the fest to the home of so many Miami breweries, bars, and restaurants just made sense.
With nearly 200 licensed breweries, Florida is considered one of America’s fastest-growing states for craft breweries. The Florida Brewers Guild identifies a little more than 20 new breweries from Miami-Dade to Palm Beach County, but that number isn’t accurate if you count production and small-scale microbreweries with taprooms open to the public. Still, all the facts and figures become insignificant when you consider the big picture: Something special is happening here.
When Craig McBay, who owns Florida Keys Brewing Co. with his wife Cheryl, saw the email from Dogfish Head Brewery’s Sam Calagione regarding his Hogfish Amber, he was ecstatic. “I thought that Sam had tasted it. I was obviously excited. This is a beer that I’m proud of.”
Top Miami-Dade and Broward spots offering specialty cocktails for St. Patrick’s Day.
Later this year, Fort Lauderdale will welcome a new brewery to an industrial complex just south of Sailboat Bend and the Tarpon River. Riverside Market’s founders and Native Brewing’s Adam Fine have partnered with the Restaurant People to form New River Brewing. The project has been a long time coming for Riverside Market husband-and-wife team Julian and Lisa Siegel…
When deciding on a location for a brewery in Miami-Dade, Spanish Marie Brewery’s Alby Cespedes didn’t want anyone from the suburbs to have to drive an hour to enjoy local craft beer. So he and his business partners chose a space at 14241 SW 120th St. in West Kendall.
Wood Tavern’s Cesar Morales is a busy man. New Times caught up with him on the way to the hospital to visit his new daughter, Lola, who was born late last week. The owner of Wynwood’s most beloved watering hole is also making some changes and expansions to Wood Tavern.
