Bars & Breweries

Kick back, relax, and forget your to-do lists at Miami’s best summer happy hours.

Strange Beast, a brewpub and pizzeria by John Falco and Todd Maxwell, opened in West Kendall this past weekend. Falco is best known in the Miami beer community as a co-owner of Lincoln’s Beard Brewing Company, which premiered in 2016. He’s still involved with the Bird Road Arts District brewery…

If you’re still playing Pokémon Go on your iPhone, you’re going to want to get tickets for a new pop-up bar coming to Miami. The Poke Bar Pop-Up has announced it’s coming to Miami on its tour across the country.

Tales of the Cocktail, the annual New Orleans celebration of spirits and industry professionals, announced the finalists for its annual Spirited Awards. The awards were founded in 2007 to celebrate excellence in the cocktail and spirits industries.This year, Julio Cabrera and his love song to Cuba, Cafe La Trova, are up for two awards.

Downtown Hollywood will soon welcome a new kava bar when Twisted Roots Kava Brewery opens July 13. The bar will offer kava-based tiki drinks in a room designed to be an adventurer’s haven where imagination meets relaxation. Although the kava craze is a recent phenomenon in the U.S., it has…

It’s just after the lunch rush at Sakaya Kitchen, but the Midtown Miami eatery is still busy. Chef/owner Richard Hales emerges from the kitchen when a customer makes a realization: “That’s you on the beer tap.” Hales acknowledges the discovery. “That’s my beer!”

This past June 6 marked the first anniversary of the passing of John Lermayer, but Miami can remember the charismatic bartender this weekend with John Lermayer Day.

The Negroni is one of the world’s greatest cocktails. The Italian libation, made with gin, vermouth, and Campari, is a classic blend of sweet and bitter. It’s also one of the few drinks that gets its own week. Imbibe magazine and Campari have dedicated the last week of June to the Negroni for a good cause.

Dads love beer. So skip the overpriced tie or watch and treat pops to a few cold ones this Father’s Day weekend. From complimentary brews to giveaways and games, killer deals at Miami breweries and bars will help us celebrate the father figures in our lives.

Think Niketown meets your favorite bar: Colorful sneakers perfectly match the colors of your favorite sports team playing on dozens of TV screens. Beer in hand, you cheer your team to victory at your new favorite spot. Grails Sports Bar will be Wynwood’s first and only sports bar when it opens in mid-August — just in time for football season.

On the corner of North Miami Avenue and NW 28th Street stands a royal-blue building with doors covered in ashy-white paper. It’s clear something is stirring inside the former Pride & Joy space. The building’s new tenant, beverage and consulting company Cocktail Cartel, is reinventing the space into two unique concepts…

Earlier this year, the craft beer community was struck a huge blow with the sudden passing of fellow brewer Mike White. White, whose beer won a gold medal for LauderAle Brewery at the Great American Beer Festival in 2017, passed away February 23 in Georgia. He was 31 years old.

Drink Miami Hostel’s bartenders create new and unexpected ways to use their favorite spirits.

Drink Miami Hostel returns to the Freehand with over 50 different brands.

Kendall finally has its own craft cocktail bar.  Located in Downtown Dadeland, Jorgie Ramos of Barley, opened Abi Maria, as an ode to his Cuban heritage and two of the most important women in his life. The bar, named after his mother, who is known to her grandchildren as Abi, and his own grandmother Maria, is a love letter to the days of Cuba’s past. “Abi Maria is a dream come true and the result of a lot of hard work,” said Ramos.

Downtown Miami is becoming a mecca for good food and drink. The fast-developing area will soon boast establishments from some of Miami’s favorite culinary and cocktail wizards, according to Miami real estate publication The Real Deal.

This year’s Rum Renaissance Festival filled the historic Coral Gables Woman’s Club will fans of the spirit. Though rum is usually associated with sipping cocktails under swaying palm trees in the Caribbean, the United States is home to some wonderful rums. From Tennessee whiskey country to Islamorada, here are some fine domestic rums to try.

Miami-native Kris Marino wants you to crack open a few dozen uber-rare beers with him during the annual Free the Whales event taking place on Saturday, June 29.

You might have seen your Instagram feed blow up with photos from Amparo, the interactive play that follows the history of the founders of Havana Club rum. The production takes a deep dive into the glass that guests will inevitably hold while watching actors portray members of the Arechabala family, founders of the Cuban spirit that had their lives ripped apart during Fidel Castro’s Cuban Revolution.

Whether you’re a local, a tourist — or a bit of both — you can grab a pint straight from the source and meet the brewers behind the beer with these South Florida brewery crawls.

New Times Brew at the Zoo is Saturday.