Bars & Breweries

This Saturday, May 12, Miami will get boozy when the ninth-annual New Times’ Brew at the Zoo takes over Zoo Miami for an evening of beer, music, fun, and wild things. From 8 to 11 p.m., sample unlimited beers from more than 100 breweries, including local favorites. In addition, rock out to ’80s classics from A Flock of Seagulls live in concert. If you’re a procrastinator, you’re actually in luck: New Times is running a last-minute flash sale on tickets to celebrate National Homebrew Day.

This Saturday, May 5, at 6:46 p.m. marks the running of the 144th Kentucky Derby, with millions of dollars on the line. Derby Day also falls on Cinco de Mayo, meaning that many watch parties will mesh the two celebrations. Expect everything from traditional hat contests to juleps made with tequila as you cheer for your favorite horse.

From spiked horchata to a serrano mezcalita with a crushed grasshopper rim, here are five of Miami’s best Cinco de Mayo cocktails. So grab your sombrero and acute sense of Mexican history and make your way to the bar.

Miami’s beer scene continues to grow by leaps and bounds, so it seems almost surreal to think the city’s first production craft brewery is only five years old. Wynwood Brewing Company continues to be a leader in the South Florida beer industry, making quality suds and contributing to its namesake neighborhood.

Though South Beach Brewing Company’s owners have yet to announce an exact location and opening date, locals are already looking forward to drinking peach shandies and blood orange IPAs in the brewery’s home somewhere in Miami Beach’s trendy South of Fifth neighborhood.

Considering Miami’s craft beer scene is improving every day, lovers of brews have much to be happy about. There’s really only one thing that can make life better: free beer.

When most people think of frozen beer, they envision that exploding bottle forgotten in the freezer. But not at 26 Degree Brewing in Pompano Beach.

John Pankauski, owner of West Palm Beach Brewery & Wine Vault, is releasing a beer for Cinco de Mayo that’s a tribute to America’s “Dreamers.”

It’s a recent Friday evening, and locals shuffle into the Dirty Rabbit. Like most Wynwood hangouts, it offers a bustling bar with tattoo-clad bartenders briskly shaking cocktails. “Are you dirty enough?” the bar’s motto asks in neon lights by the door. While some patrons gyrate to the sounds of ’90s hip-hop…

On the eve of the nation’s best-known marijuana holiday, South Florida breweries have been thrown into chaos by cease-and-desist letters sent to breweries using terpene, an ingredient that can be related to cannabis and hemp.

The day 4/20 is a celebration of pot culture with roots in a modern legend that sounds a lot like a YA adventure story.

A research scientist, a lawyer, and a brewer are three of the men behind Miami’s newest brewery, Beat Culture. Alan Espino, a scientist and Beat Culture’s founder, says the brewery has been in the works for more than five years. It’s a project grounded in his appreciation for the biochemistry…

Miami Beach is a worldwide playground, where people visit from around the globe to sun, eat, and drink. Unfortunately, there’s a price to pay for all of that pleasure. Walk into most bars or restaurants on South Beach and find cocktails costing upward of $20 or more — unless you’re in the know. The good news is that some of Miami Beach’s best watering holes and restaurants have happy hours that offer everything from dollar oysters to signature cocktails. Here are the five best.

From a new IPA trend to light and fizzy ways to imbibe, here are the beers to look out for this spring.

Palm Beach County-based Black Coral Rum founder Ben Etheridge is set to open one of the state’s largest multispirit distilleries this year. The building, located on the outskirts of Elizabeth Station at 1615 Clare Ave. in West Palm Beach, will offer patrons a chance to sample several kinds of artisan liquors made using mainly local ingredients.

Time and again, South Floridians are stepping up to do whatever they can to help the teenage survivors and families of the victims of mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

Several South Florida breweries have recently begun using terpenes — the nonpsychoactive flavor molecules responsible for the aroma and flavor in cannabis — to create new beers.

Several breweries from Florida and beyond that have received national acclaim in recent months are set to pour some of their award-winning suds during the return of Boxelder’s Free the Whales.

Maybe chocolate bunnies and jelly beans aren’t your thing, and Easter requires a little more kick. Enjoy Easter Sunday sipping on one of these spring-ready concoctions. Whether it be pastel-colored libations with lavender bitters or watermelon vodka garnished with Peeps, these Easter-themed cocktails will keep you well lubricated throughout the…

It’s just after 2 a.m. March 17 at J. Wakefield Brewing in Wynwood. Though the place has been closed for hours, five guys are seated in folding chairs just steps from the front bay door. They’re huddled around a cooler filled with bottles of barrel-aged beers, fruit-tinged wild ales, and…

On Saturday, May 12, Miami will get boozy when the ninth-annual New Times‘ Brew at the Zoo takes over Zoo Miami for an evening of beer, music, fun, and wild things. From 8 to 11 p.m., sample unlimited beers from more than 100 breweries including local favorites. In addition, rock out…

Concrete Beach Brewery is behind two limited-quantity beer releases, the E&M Imperial Malt Liquor and the Chiquitico. The brews, created by head brewer Eric Hernandez, coincide with the kickoff of Miami Pride Week, which runs from April 2 to 8. The beers will be distributed to a number of local bars and restaurants…