This weekend, Tampa’s Woven Water Brewing Company is celebrating five years of craft beer with releases and food pop-ups on Saturday and Sunday. From Woven Water Brewing: …….we genuinely cannot understand how time has passed so quickly. Wasn’t it just yesterday we opened during COVID with a drive thru line…
Drinkers’ votes bring three off-centered ales out of the archives and back to shelves Dogfish Head invites drinkers to rediscover some of its first brews with the debut of its new, crowd-sourced Rewind Variety Pack. Offering a blast from the past, Dogfish Head’s Rewind Variety Pack is a limited-time-only 12pk/12oz can assortment of…
Tampa’s Angry Chair Brewing is doing their best to maintain their reputation as Florida’s most dessert-centered brewery with a new event to celebrate all things brunch and all things Wilfred Brimley. From Angry Chair Brewing: Cancel your boring breakfast plans and come get brunch-wasted with us. On Saturday, August 30th…
Florida’s summer provides many things from hurricanes to heat waves, but the one thing there is plenty of is reasons to drink crisp lagers and crushable beers. On Sunday, August 31st, Fort Myers’ Point Ybel Brewing Company is celebrating all manner of beers with their Cool & Crispy Fest with…
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In a recent episode of the BeerWise podcast, host Mark DeNote sat down with Jack Hendler, the namesake and brewer behind Jack’s Abbey Craft Lagers in Framingham, Massachusetts. The conversation offers insights into the world of craft lager brewing and Hendler’s vision for the future of American lager beer. As…
Florida Beer News is proud to announce a collaboration with Speak Out Shirts for two new conversation-starters related to the beer styles we love and the ubiquitous anti-hero the Sunshine State has spawned. How did this collaboration come about? Well, it really came from John LoScalzo and the cool shirts…
There is so much to celebrate when a craft beverage business completes two years, and Orlando’s Zymarium Meadery will be setting a new bar with their 2nd “Bee-Day” lineup happening on Saturday, August 16th, starting at 1pm. From Zymarium Meadery: Can you believe it’s been two years already?!? Join us…
If you love Tampa Bay Beer Week and Florida craft beer, you won’t want to miss the Halfway There Beer Festival. This annual mid-year celebration returns to The St. Petersburg Coliseum, bringing together breweries, beer lovers, and the vibrant Tampa Bay beer community for an afternoon of hops, malt, and…
Orlando Beer Week 2026 – “A week made to embrace, advance and advocate our Orlando breweries and the surrounding community” – has posted a Save-The-Date for next year and some preliminary information on Faded Kingdom Beer Festival – the event that bookends the week of celebration. From Orlando Beer Week:…
In a year rife with brewery closings, brewery changes, and brewery moves, it is an uplifting sign to see a brewery grand open in any part of Florida, let alone in Pinellas County – an area home to many of the state’s historic and innovative brewers. From Clearwater Brewing Company:…
2025 continues to provide rough headwinds for many small businesses, but for craft breweries especially. St. Petersburg’s Dissent Brewing Company announced on August 6th that the brewery will be closing its doors soon. From Dissent Brewing: What started out as a passion project, turned into a business and then moved…
The Tampa Bay beer scene continues to evolve in exciting ways, as evidenced by the latest developments from the Tampa Bay Brewers Alliance. In a recent interview on the BeerWise Podcast, Sean Nordquist shared insights on two major upcoming beer festivals that showcase the region’s vibrant craft beer culture. (Read…
Hourglass Brewing of Longwood is celebrating 13 years of craft beer in the Longwood area of Seminole County very soon. In this tumultuous climate for craft beer, as more and more breweries are facing difficulties and having to find new locations or hitting pause, every anniversary is a but more…
As 2025 continues to hammer its theme of tough sledding for craft breweries throughout the United States, as well as the State of Florida, another craft brewery has decided to ‘hit pause’ on their current space. Just as was the headline with Bootleggers Brewing of Brandon, the Panhandle’s Emerald Republic…
Live Oak Brewing Company stands as a beacon of traditional brewing in an industry often chasing the next trend. Founded in 1997 by Chip McElroy and Brian Peters, this Austin-based brewery has dedicated itself to perfecting European beer styles with an unwavering commitment to authenticity that’s increasingly rare in today’s…
Brandon’s Bootleggers Brewing announces that they are searching for a new location for their brewery, and while they do, they have made a tough decision on their current space at 10256 Causeway Boulevard. From Bootleggers Brewing: Hey Bootleggers- There’s really no easy way to say this, so here it is:…
Lakeland’s largest brewery posted an announcement to their social media channels, indicating that they will soon be changing things up a bit in their business and their facility. From Brew Hub: BIG NEWS! We’ve got a new name: Great Southern Beverages Same crew. Same great beer. We just have a…
Tampa Bay Brewing Company (TBBC) is proud to promote conservation. With their most popular beers named for the Floridian outdoors and the fish that inhabit it, it seems only fitting that the brewery should collaborate with The Florida Aquarium to raise awareness to aquatic issues and work to start a…
Orlando’s Ten10 Brewing Company is celebrating ten years as a mainstay in the City Beautiful’s craft beer scene, and the party is going to last for an entire week. The festivities are set to begin on Monday, July 21st, and each day will be marked with music, food, or an…