Drinking beer in this state a decade ago was a bland affair. Crates of beer-like water shipped in from the flat grainy states of the Midwest dominated shelves and beer coozies alike. When I first sampled a macrobrewed lager at a tender age, I thought to myself, “Who would WANT…
This past Saturday, about a dozen homebrewers from around the area converged on the parking lot of the Little House in Boynton Beach to brave the fickle Florida weather, show off their brews, and enter into a friendly competition. Owner Chrissy Benoit (previously of Havana Hideaway in Lake Worth) and…
Whether it’s an obsession with Mad Men or just a sense of boredom with overly sweet, flavored vodkas, classic cocktails are making a resurgence. Whatever the cause, we think it’s pretty awesome. The classic Negroni is one of those “in” drinks. Supposedly developed in Florence, Italy, in 1919, when Count…
If you’ve ever dreamed of having a cold beer deep in the jungle while ferocious animals and birds of prey look on from the distance, then you should head out to the Palm Beach Zoo this Saturday, April 27, from 6 to 9 p.m. for Brew at the Zoo, a…
Some might say that a food and wine festival is not a place to sample beer, but they’d be wrong, wrong, wrong! It just happens to be not a very good place to do so. Not caring much for convention, nor for being seen as the odd man out at…
A lot of people like to eat food just to fill their stomachs. And a lot people drink cocktails just to get drunk. And hey–we’ve all done both. There really is little difference between making good cocktails and good food; both require a certain level of intuition and training. A…
If you cannot find a bag of chronic this 4/20, there is a beer on tap at The Mack House that could at least aid you in your quest to get high. The beer is Wormwood Imperial Stout. It is brewed with the same plant, or artemisia absinthium, from which…
Since craft beer has come onto the scene we’ve been seeing some interesting flavors pop up in beer: peanut butter cup, maple bacon, spirulina wit, oysters, rocky mountain oysters–i.e. bull testicles. And for the more part, we’ve gotten fairly used to these strange additions to our beer–okay, maybe not the…
Need a drink? There’s an app for that! Say what you will about it, social networking isn’t going anywhere. For some, that’s a cause for sorrow and others a cause for joy. For the naysayers, the physical distancing, the impersonal nature of high-tech communication is what gets them down. “What…
Spring is here in south Florida. That means high pollen counts, soaring temperatures, and the return of incessant humidity. With all that going on, we just want to head indoors and drink a cool cocktail made with fresh fruits.Good thing Max’s Harvest has introduced several new specialty cocktails, filled with…
The buzz for Funky Buddha Brewery in Oakland Park is getting more intense as time closes in on its official opening date, which begs the question: when is the opening?”We’re looking late May for an opening,” said KC Sentz of the Funky Buddha to Brett Hubbard, host of the South…
Friday’s here, so it’s time for beer. As a native Floridian, there’s nothing quite like taking a lazy afternoon after work and either hanging out on the patio with a cold beer in hand or heading down to the pub to talk about the weeks’ events. In the past, we’ve…
When beloved downtown West Palm Beach gastropub Gratify closed their doors last July, a little piece of champagne brunch died along with it. Where most of us saw a fleeting memory of happy hours past, however, Chase Woolard saw an opportunity. Already the Managing Partner of successful restaurant The Local…
Michiganders and beer geeks rejoice: Grand Rapids based Founders Brewing Co. is about to make its way on to the Florida market. In 2011 and 2012, the brewery has earned the title as the second best in the world on ratebeer.com. For the record: Tampa’s Cigar City ranked in at…
When you crack open a cold one, or have it served to you in a frosted glass, you’re expecting to drink beer, right? But what about heavy metals? No we’re not talking about Iron Maiden, but arsenic. Arsenic, people! A recent report claims that high levels of arsenic has been…
Release nights are always a crowd pleaser at the Funky Buddha Lounge & Brewery, Boca Raton’s current flagship brew lounge. Fifty to 60 people, packed three deep at the bar, managed to find enough room for themselves in anticipation of the beers to be tapped. You could feel the excitement…
In the past year or so, the craft cocktail has been on everyone’s menu — but not every menu is truly craft. Not so at Kapow! Noodle Bar in Boca Raton, where cocktail menu creator Angela Dugan — wife to Kapow! co-owner and Pizza Fusion CEO Vaughan Lazar — recently…
On Saturday evening, hundreds of beer lovers in South Florida came together in Esplanade Park to sample the finest beers, enjoy great live music and have a great time at New Times’ Beerfest. Even the weather cooperated. Mother Nature is clearly a beer lover, because the evening was cool and…
Coffee? Check. Aspirin? Check. Beerfest fill? Half-check, because we could always go for more. Hopefully you took Sunday to recover from the intense craft beer-drinking that took place at Beerfest Saturday night at Esplanade Park. Then again, hopefully you just kept the party going for the rest of the weekend…
The 16th-annual New Times “Original” Beerfest is coming to Fort Lauderdale’s Esplanade Park tomorrow, April 6, from 6 to 11 p.m. We can feel the excitement in the air as we prepare to drink plenty of good beer, eat delicious food, and listen to some of the best live and…
April 6 is the official day of the unofficial holiday celebrating the end of Prohibition. What is this day called, you ask? It’s appropriately titled New Beer’s Eve. World of Beer, aka Beer Heaven, is hosting a glorious celebration for this unofficial-but-should-be-official holiday. World of Beer in Coconut Creek features…
“Most people hoard baseball cards or cats” says Julian Siegel, straightening up his Dogfish Head bottles. “But me? I collect beer.” Siegel, owner of Riverside Market, has collected three generations of Dogfish Head beer over the last four years. When asked why, this beer connoisseur responds with a grin. “I…
