Every week, we take a look at a craft beer brewed in Florida. Follow #FloridaBeerFriday for more reviews of Sunshine State brews. Get out there and #DrinkLocal. Happy Friday, and welcome to the weekly beer feature where I take a look at a beer brewed right here in the Sunshine…
What do you get when you combine gin, pineapple juice, Cherry Heering, Bénédictine, and fresh pineapple juice? Besides a lot of drunk imbibers, it’s also what’s commonly known as The Singapore Sling, a gin-based cocktail developed in the early 1900’s by Ngiam Tong Boon, a Hainanese bartender working at the…
What’s better than a cocktail made with locally-made, award-winning rum? A cocktail made with a grilled pineapple special release locally-made award-winning rum, that’s what. South Florida Distillers, makers of Fwaygo white rum, are currently selling bottles of their limited edition grilled pineapple Fwaygo, available this week at their Fort Lauderdale…
As craft beer continues to soar, the ‘big guys’ are positioning themselves into different segments of the beer market. Like this beer: a nitrogen widget filled IPA being made by the notorious perfect pour police at Guinness. When news came out in late September that this centuries old brewery was delving…
The College Football season is in full swing. Floridians biggest pigskin weekend has come and gone (sorry, Canes!), but there are still plenty of games begging for pitchers of beer and chicken wings. You’re going to want to be around a TV for the duration — but where? I’m glad…
South Florida is frequently criticized for being slow to get catch. But when it comes to malted beverages, you don’t have to wait for brewers to ‘get with the program’ on hot trends. after this years Great American Beer Festival, as brewers in South Florida are already getting themselves onto…
Bees. Nature’s pollinators, honey makers, and wing shakers. They’re one of man’s greatest resources and one of the oldest insects that we exploited. But they are constantly under attack by pests, including the Varroa destructor mite: a parasite that infests a honey bee colony and believed to contribute to Colony…
Ben & Jerry’s and New Belgium have joined forces to make all our ice cream and beer dreams come true. The Vermont-based ice creamery and Colorado brewery have collaborated on both a beer-based ice cream and an ice cream beer. As Eric Fredette, flavor guru for Ben & Jerry’s (who, by…
Every week, we take a look at a craft beer brewed in Florida. Follow #FloridaBeerFriday for more reviews of Sunshine State brews. Get out there and #DrinkLocal. This week, I’m heading down to Pompano Beach to visit 26 Degree Brewing Company to sample their Pompano Heff, a wheat-oriented beer called…
What’s a Boulevardier? It sounds like a euphemism for a Parisian gigolo, but it literally means, “a frequenter of the Paris boulevards” or man-about-town. That was the classic cocktail three local bartenders were tasked with making during round one of last night’s battle. Said bartenders included two well-known men-about-town and…
In a deal that CNN Money calls the biggest beer deal ever, the two biggest beer companies in the world have stepped closer together, when they announced they have agreed to a merger — in principle. Under the agreement, AB InBev would buy SABMiller shares at GBP 44 per share…
Delray Beach burger hotspot and 2012 New Times Best Palm Beach County Restaurant winner The Office is bringing New Belgium Brewing Company to the Ave for what the restaurant calls a ‘brew-tastic’ artisan craft beer dinner on Monday, October 26 starting at 6:30pm. Instead of the usual Office fare, which…
Some things get better with time, and that’s certainly the case with Rhythm & Vine, the garden-esque bar and lounge located on the outskirts of Fort Lauderdale’s Flagler Village complex. Since opening in April, both the Airstream and indoor bars have launched a new cocktail menu featuring house made infusions,…
Every week, we take a look at a craft beer brewed in Florida. Follow #FloridaBeerFriday for more reviews of Sunshine State brews. Get out there and #DrinkLocal. Cider, again?! Yes, this week I’m taking a crack at another cider (last week I brought you some Hard Cider from Cigar City…
Last night the Max Group’s Bar Brawls bartender competition returned for its third installment, and the competition was looking fierce, a macho showdown between El Camino, Sundy House, and Kapow! Noodle Bar. In a pre-event Facbeook video, each contestant had a few words to say about the impending competition. El Camino…
The Apothecary 330 A new cocktail bar will open today in Fort Lauderdale’s Himmarshee Village. Known as Apothecary 330, it stands as the co-concept to newly-opened Pizzacraft. The space — designed by JEY Hospitality co-founder Marc Falsetto and general manager Scott Kurzawinski — is being dubbed by its creators as…
Prost! It’s the word you will hear time and time again at this year’s annual Oktoberfest at the American German Club of the Pam Beaches in Lake Worth. For the past 42 years, the social club has been raising funds through this event by putting on one of the biggest…
Were you at this years’ New Times’ Beerfest in downtown Fort Lauderdale at the beautiful Esplanade Park? If you were, you were one of thousands that got to participate in one of the longest running beer festivals in South Florida and experience beers that ran the gamut from dry Irish…
Every week, we take a look at a craft beer brewed in Florida. Follow #FloridaBeerFriday for more reviews of Sunshine State brews. Get out there and #DrinkLocal. This week I’m opening a can of Cigar City Cider & Mead’s Hard Cider, their stalwart and core cider in their lineup. But…
Hunter S. Thompson once wrote,”I was right in the middle of a(n) [expletive deleted] reptile zoo, and somebody was giving booze to these goddamn things.” This is Bar Brawls, and it’s a beast. Last night’s competitors in the booziest throwdown since, well, ANY “Real Housewives” spinoff, were Jess Hart, onetime…
The New Times, 18th Annual “Original” Beerfest, presented by Isle Casino, returns on Saturday, October 10, 2015, to Esplanade Park in Downtown Fort Lauderdale. The fun starts at 7 p.m. (6 p.m. for VIP and Brewmaster ticketholders), with plenty of suds, music and fun. In case the draw of sampling over…
A.J. Fazendin, the man behind Prescribed Spirits, is set to debut his new brand of gin at the Craft Spirits Festival in Coconut Grove on Oct. 8. This moment has been months in the making for Fazendin, who’s been trekking back and forth between Miami to Fort Lauderdale, where he…
