Florida’s Brew Scene

Blogs

• Brew Review – Oktoberfest at Sailfish Brewing April 22, 2025
  Note: This was already written well before I had to take several weeks off of doing the Blog. I had debated as to whether I should just delete the article or not, but decided to keep it and publish it later since it was a fantastic beer from a fantastic brewery. Please keep that in […]
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• Brew Review – Calamintha Hibiscus Wit by First Magnitude Brewing and Florida Museum of Natural History April 21, 2025
  Picture a bee in your mind. It’s wrong. Sure, the bee in your mind is yellow with some black; they rarely stray beyond those two colors. But that doesn’t mean that all bees are like this. In fact, I was today years old when I discovered the Calamintha (Osmia calaminthae), an exceptionally rare, blackish-blue bee […]
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• Brew Review – Hazy IPA by Sailfish Brewing and Loggerhead Marine Life Center April 17, 2025
  I am most definitely not a fisherman. I’m not really into fishing, and while I will eat seafood, I would prefer that somebody else takes care of that aspect of procuring my dinner. But I love Sailfish Brewing. Part of it is purely sentimental, being in one of my favorite cities in Florida, Ft. Pierce. […]
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• Brew Review – Voltron Volume 5 Hazy IPA by Four Hands Brewing and Tripping Animals April 15, 2025
  If you grew up at a certain time and are of a certain age, my expectation and hope is that the title of today’s post elicited any amount of excitement, nostalgia, and maybe even a bit of jealousy. I know I was when I saw this project first announced. If you aren’t familiar with Voltron, […]
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• Brew Review – Interviewing at Chubby Mermaid April 14, 2025
  And just like that, I have once again completed interviewing all of the breweries in Bonita Springs. Mind you, this relatively quiet Hamlet on the Gulf Coast just north of Naples doesn’t have a ton of breweries, but it is cultivating a small and mighty scene. The newest of those breweries is Chubby Mermaid. You […]
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• Brew Review – Florida Flavor by Calusa Brewing April 10, 2025
  So the interesting thing about beer festivals is sometimes breweries represent themselves and have their teams, equipment, etc. present to sample their wares. Sometimes, beers from several different breweries are loaded onto a truck and sampled by their distributor. I’m writing this at Bonita Beer Fest in Bonita Springs, which was about 70/30 in favor […]
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• Event – St Patrick’s Day at Stormhouse Brewing April 8, 2025
  I wonder what it looks like to the cultures that we, and I use this term a little bit loosely, celebrate on holidays like St Patrick’s Day. I’m not going to say I don’t love Ireland. It was an amazing place to visit. It’s just that I don’t think a lot of people totally understand […]
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• Brew Review – Whakatane by Chubby Mermaid Brewing April 7, 2025
  Stranger things have happened, but my fervent hope is that we are not going to see any crazy tariffs on anything coming out of New Zealand anytime soon. Yes, I know they have an amazing cultural heritage that I am always keen to learn about (If you’ve never seen the All Blacks do a pre-match […]
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