With passage of Amendment 64, which legalizes cannabis for recreational use in Colorado comes the possibility of a new market for cannabis beer.Washington state legalized recreational cannabis too. Even though cannabis beer has been made by home brewers for years, commercial breweries probably won’t be following suit, considering that cannabis…
World of Beer, a Tampa-based chain of beer bars, is opening its second Miami location in Kendall on December 3 at 3 p.m. The new WOB will be centrally located within the shops at The Palms in Town and Country, across from Outback Steakhouse.Schenbly Miami Brewing Company will also be…
Democratic Republic of Beer, Miami’s late night beer and wine local featuring over 500 beers from around the world, opened its second location in three years in downtown on Friday night.Business was slow at first but intensified by 8 p.m., nearly reaching maximum occupancy by midnight. Saturday and Sunday turned…
Not much goes better with live music than drinks, cheap drinks, and plenty of them. A handful of bars and venues participating in Miami Live Music Month are offering two-for-one drink specials every Friday until November 30. Forty-five venues across Miami-Dade are hosting live acts during the month of November…
For over a year Hatuey beer has been making a comeback in South Florida, re-entering the market in the summer of 2011 and finding its way to bars and liquor stores. Then this month the company announced that it will start appearing throughout Broward store shelves and bar taps with…
Today is the big day. No, it’s not the day you’ll finally move out of your parents’ house. It’s the day when Americans choose who gets to hang in the White House for four years.Read Also:- Obama Beer? The President’s White House Honey Ale- Here’s What We Eat Should Mitt…
BJ’s Brewhouse, a pizza and brewpub-style restaurant chain from Santa Ana, California, opened at the Falls Shopping Center yesterday.The location is the second in the Miami market for the casual-dining restaurant, having first opened in Doral on October 16. The latest restaurant opening is part of an expansion at the…
This past Sunday, members of B.R.E.W. FIU hosted their first annual Biscayne Brewers Bash in the pavilion of the Kovens Conference Center overlooking beautiful Biscayne Bay. The event hosted 15 local brewers serving over 40 different micro-brews. There was also a booth for beer bread and beer butter. The main…
Clarke’s in SoFi is so deceptively simple looking from the outside, if you don’t give it a good long look, you might glance over it as just another Irish pub. That’s not to say Irish pubs aren’t great. I’ve spent many evenings downing pints and chowing down on grub –…
Beer snobs don’t trick-or-treat for candy, fool, they want beer. But to a beer snob, candy is beer, therefore you are going to need some sort of idea of what sort of beers they might be looking for on Halloween…
You would have thought his past Saturday was October 31 with all the costumed revelers in Coconut Grove as part of the Last Call Pub Crawl’s Halloween Crawl.The concept was simple: “Crawlers” hit a series of bars, usually four or five, all within walking distance of each other. One weekend…
This Saturday the Biscayne Brewers Exposition will be held at the Kovens Conference Center on the Biscayne Bay Campus of Florida International University, and will feature area brewers who are known for creating the best product in their line of work.What originally was going to be a home brewing competition…
Halloween is right around the corner and soon the streets and bars will be filled with zombies, sexy witches, and vampires — all thirsting for a cocktail.You want to know what’s even more frightening than having all these creatures of the night walking the streets of Miami?An empty glass….That’s why…
This Presidential election is enough to drive anyone (even Mitt Romney) to drink. After all, in the past few weeks, we’ve seen both candidates snipe at each other in the debates, watched aghast as Donald Trump failed yet again to be taken seriously, and stared in disbelief as Big Bird…
There appears to be a new record-setter for beer. A team of microbrewers in Scotland at Brewmeister Brewery has made what could now be considered the world’s strongest beer weighing in at a whopping 65 percent alcohol by volume, or 130 proof.The beer is called Brewmeister’s Armageddon and is set…
Oktoberfest is out; pumpkin beers are in. But do they taste like a pie or a pumpkin? If you’re feeling a little apprehensive about drinking brew made from an oversize gourd, remember that beer is beer and that no two pumpkin beers are the same. There is a history of…
Though the Saturday morning skies were full of rain, the beer gods were smiling down on Grovetoberfest. By the time the gates opened on the event, held in Coconut Grove’s Peacock Park, the afternoon was sunny and cool, allowing over 6,000 people to enjoy over 200 brews, live music, and…
There is a mantra that goes something like this: do one thing and do it well. For Wynwood Brewing Company’s brewmaster, Jim Patton, that one thing is making good beer.Patton joined Luis Brignoni’s brewing operation last month. He, Brignoni and Luis Brignoni Sr. are currently preparing to open the first…
Back in August, Schnebly Miami Brewing Company set out to find a woman to be their Big Rod Ale Girl. Her beauty would be enshrined on tap handles across America.Schnebly’s searched for a model who could not only conform to the pin-up style, but whose personality empowered women. They chose…
Wine enthusiasts can indulge in an all-you-can-drink wine tasting celebrating the wines of Portugal at Smith & Wollensky tomorrow, Wednesday, October 10. The Tejo Wine Tasting offers 100 distinct wines from Portugal’s Tejo region, a hilly place around the River Tagus.Tejo offers quite a variety, from easy-drinking reds, roses, and…
Miami homebrewers are back, and this Thursday and Friday they’ll converge on LoKal Burgers and Beer in Coconut Grove to celebrate Oktoberfest with the first annual Home Brewers Bash. The event is a leadup to this year’s Grovetoberfest on October 13. Besides tasting some homebrewed suds that you will not find…
Oktoberfest in Germany this year wraps up on Tuesday, but the rage officially hit the East Coast Miami style, shattering the autumn apathy with two simultaneous festivals occurring in Brickell this past weekend. The Brickell Sam Adams Octoberfest, originally slated for Friday and Saturday only, was extended an extra day…
