Anne and I went up to Cajun Cafe On The Bayou in Pinellas Park on Saturday to attend their annual Fall Craft Beer Festival. Rated by RoadTripsforBeer.com as one of the country’s Top 10 Fall Beer Festivals, this event featured more than 100 homebrew, craft, and imported beers. Tampa Bay is fortunate to have a [...]
With the cool crisp weather of Fall arriving in most of the country, including Florida, having a good pumpkin ale was on my mind. And when I hit the Cock & Bull with my friend Brad a couple of nights ago, I had the chance to try a very good one indeed. Cigar City Good [...]
It was a New York State of Mind on Saturday when Mr. Beery’s hosted Kegs & Eggs: Southern Tier Total Tap Takeover. This brewery has caught the eye of many beer enthusiasts in recent years, and with 20 of the brewery’s beers on tap, not to mention bagels shipped in from Bagel Boss in Hicksville, [...]
Anne and I stopped by Dunedin Brewery late Sunday afternoon, on the way back from Tarpon Springs, to check out the latest beers on tap. I was pleased to see that they had a new offering from their Brewmaster’s Reserve series, and decided to order a pint. Dundein Brewmaster’s Reserve The Honey Pumpkin (Dunedin Brewery; [...]
I learned something new the other day. If you drink a pumpkin ale out of a wine glass, it really enhances the flavor of the beer. So I decided to put this theory to the test recently. I ordered a Dogfish Punkin Ale (Dogfish Head Craft Brewery; Milton, DE; Pumpkin Ale; ABV: 7.0) with dinner [...]
While the official start of Fall is two weeks away, it’s nice to see that breweries around the country have gotten an early jump on distributing their pumpkin ales. I’m a big fan of this style of beer, and it was nice to try a couple of old favorites, in addition to a new one, [...]
Marzens tend to be traditional Fall beers, but I had the chance to try a different take on this beer style at Crum’s Bar and Grill recently. Cigar City Marzen Spring Lager (Cigar City Brewing; Tampa, FL; Marzen; ABV: 5.5) is also known as Cigar City Oktoberfest Marzen when it’s released during the autumn months. [...]
You can add Crum’s Bar and Grill to a growing list of exceptional brewpubs in the Tampa Bay area. Located in downtown St. Petersburg, and owned by Chris Crum and Lanette Miller, Crum’s Bar and Grill offers craft beer, food, and live music in a hip casual setting. Speaking of which, there’s 52 selections of [...]
The last time I was at the Cigar City Brewing Tasting Room in Tampa, I learned something new. Did you know that bats pollinate blue agave plants, which provide the ingredient found in tequila? So it’s fitting that I tried a double cream ale, named for the bat, that’s aged in tequila barrels. Cigar City [...]