Check Out These Five Employee-Owned Craft Breweries

Labor Day. The holiday we tip our hats to the many people before us who fought for our right to a shorter 40 hour work week, the establishment of the weekend, and for basic safe working conditions for every worker in this great nation. As the Department of Labor puts it,…

NFL 2015: Five South Florida Breweries Perfect for Football Season

Football season is right around the corner, and you’re favorite team is currently doing everything they can to ensure they are adequately prepared for game days this Fall; shouldn’t you be doing the same? Yes. The answer is yes. Time is running out and you definitely should be mapping out…

Pop-Up Bar at FAT Village Art Walk Serves Craft Cocktails for a Good Cause

FAT Village is all grown up. Fort Lauderdale’s little arts neighborhood that could has gone from a humble strip of converted warehouses off NW 5th St. a few years ago to a thriving urban enclave where galleries, co-ops, and boutique creative businesses co-mingle – especially on the last Saturday of the month. The art walks…

Florida Beer: Category 4 IPA From Due South Brewing Company

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. As Tropical Storm Erika bobs and weaves in our general direction, questions are pondered by the greatest minds of our generation: “Do I…

North Carolina’s Duck-Rabbit Brewery Brings Beer To Florida September 3

Recent years have seen an influx in big name craft brewers expanding their reach into the Sunshine State: Founders Brewing came to Florida in 2013, and so did Sweetwater Brewing. Boulevard Brewing came September of last year. Now Duck-Rabbit Brewery, a ten-year-old operation in Farmville, North Carolina, is poised to enter…

50 Ocean Hosts Backwards Cigar City Brewing Dinner September 8

Delray Beach’s 50 Ocean continues its 2015 Chef’s Summer Tasting Series with a multi-course “backwards dinner” on Tuesday, September 8, paired with the bold flavors of Tampa’s Cigar City Brewing. Here, patrons will get to do the most adult thing possible: have dessert first! Forward Beers In A Backwards Dinner…

Florida Beer: El Dorado Hoppy Wheat From Devour Brewing Company

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. Among the incredibly complex beer treatments that abound in the beer world, like so many chocolate coconut rum-chata porters, it can be relaxing…

Beerfest 2015 Returns, Get Tickets Now

Beer lovers get ready because the “Original” Beerfest is back! On Saturday, October 10 from 7 – 10 p.m.,  Fort Lauderdale’s Esplanade Park turns into a wonderland of suds when the 18th annual Beerfest, presented by Isle Casino, returns.   This is the longest running beer festival in South Florida…

Saltwater Brewery Cans Hit the Market With Screamin’ Reels IPA

The life of a brewery moves in different stages: first there’s the concept, then the opening, then small batches of beer turn to monstrous batches that produce hundreds of gallons at a time, then distribution, then, as some start to do, making packaged beer. Delray Beach’s Saltwater Brewery has entered…

Make Your Own Spirits at Fort Lauderdale’s South Florida Distillers

In a place where rum drinks are almost an essential part of daily life, it seems only natural that craft distilling has arrived in South Florida. This year, two locally based operations began making craft spirits, including Black Coral Rum in Riviera Beach, and South Florida Distillers in Fort Lauderdale…

Florida Beer: Mango IPA From Hollywood Brewing Company

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, we’re taking a look at St. Peter’s Saison de Banc Vert from Green Bench Brewing Co. This week we’re taking a…