Bars & Breweries

World of Beer (WoB) Dadeland permanently closed Tuesday after more than five years in business, according to an announcement the bar posted on Instagram.

Miami’s bars are getting into the season with fresh concoctions channeling the best flavors of fall. Here are the top ten cocktails to warm yourself from the inside out regardless of the weather.

If the closest you’ve been to Gianni Versace’s former Ocean Drive mansion, now Villa Casa Casuarina, is taking a selfie in front of the Medusa statues guarding the gates, head to the property’s Onyx Bar.

Constellation Brands is on a buying spree. A few months ago, the beverage distributor purchased South Florida’s Funky Buddha Brewery for an undisclosed sum. Now, Constellation has announced plans to become an active part of the legal cannabis market.

Gordash now has a small brewery of his own, and that’s where he’ll reintroduce the Special English Ale. The much-requested award-winning brew will be available on draft at the nanobrewery Holy Mackerel Garage Project in Pompano Beach.

The tap list at M.I.A. Beer Co. also includes HRD WTR, a line of alcoholic seltzer water.

Fall has officially arrived in Miami! And even as we’re donning long-sleeved shirts and carving our pumpkins, stores are breaking out the Christmas decorations. That means it’s not too early to plan for holiday parties. New Times’ Sips and Sweets should be on your calendar as the fun alternative to your annual office potluck.

Miami’s beer scene grows weekly with breweries, festivals, and new releases.  Here are five Miami beer stories that prove our city’s suds just keep getting better.

Just as Miami Spice wraps up for the season, Estrella Damm Chef’s Choice rolls into Miami, offering meal deals at 50 restaurants. The promotion will run throughout November.

Time to dust off the broomstick for Halloween. Sure, the supermarket is lined with bags of candy for trick-or-treaters, but don’t let that stop you from enjoying a little adult entertainment. The holiday also offers ghoulishly fun drinks. Here are some of the best cocktails for Halloween.

In the wake of Hurricanes Irma and Maria, Miami brewers have collaborated on several beers whose proceeds will be donated to relief efforts in Puerto Rico and the Florida Keys. M.I.A. Beer Co. in Doral has teamed up with breweries from the Tampa area — Coppertail, Green Bench, Cycle, and 7venth Sun — to make IRMA IPA. Proceeds from the sale of the beer will be donated to the nonprofit Feeding Florida.

Grovetoberfest returned to Coconut Grove this past Saturday with more than 100 brewers pouring hundreds of beers. The lively event, held in Regatta Park, was a good way for newly opened establishments such as NightLife Brewing Co. and Bousa Brewing Co. to show off their beers alongside South Florida veterans like Concrete Beach and M.I.A. Beer Company.

Ask any Miami Dolphins fan under 40 and they’ll tell you the same thing: The Dolphins’ undefeated 1972 season seems like a myth. The team going an entire season without losing a game doesn’t seem possible. Not according to what these fans have witnessed in their lifetime.

Less than a week following Hurricane Irma, Bousa Brewing Co. quietly opened its taproom on September 22 in the Little River District.

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.

The Worlds 50 Best Bars were just announced in London, with two Miami bars making the grade for the first time. The list compiles and ranks the best bars in the world.

This weekend, the Funky Buddha Lounge & Brewery will celebrate its seventh anniversary with more than 40 rare Funky Buddha beers, food trucks, and live music from 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Saturday, October 7. For Funky Buddha founders and husband-and-wife team Ryan and Giani Sentz, who opened the…

Fall is here and with it comes a host of events and parties in Miami. If you’re a lover of good food, drink, and fun times with friends, New Times has you covered with an impressive lineup of parties.

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.

Biscayne Bay Brewing in Doral recently launched Yacht Rock’s Sunday Brunch, a weekly party offering build-your-own breakfast burritos, bottomless guava mimosas, a live DJ, and a $1 house blend of Kapitan’s Kolsch and rosé. Sundays, the brewery swaps its regular small-bites menu for a selection of breakfast items under $10.

A highly coveted beer from Brasserie-Brouwerij Cantillon will be available to South Floridians for the first time when it goes on tap at Laser Wolf in Fort Lauderdale later this month. And if there’s one thing we all need after Irmageddon, it’s a good drink.

Islamorada Beer Company co-founder, Jose Herrera considers himself a lucky man today. On the phone, he updates New Times on his brewery and taproom’s status. “We were blessed. My partner, Chris, took a boat to the Keys yesterday and found no structural damage to the building.That being said, the beer maker paints a grim picture of the Florida Keys’ current status. “Marathon got hit really, really hard and there’s no way to know how Key West is. There’s zero communication in the Keys.”