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You can't mow your lawn in a Hurricane, but you can drink beer.
Hurricane season in Florida: that rainy, humid, stormy weather season that we get for four months; that "I don't want to walk out in the rain, but I really want to grab a beer" season; that "it says hurricane warning, but it's beautiful outside" season. Hurricanes are erratic, but we're used to it. One thing we all have learned is to stock up on beer and snacks at home in the summer. I would rather stay inside and listen to the rain with my beer than risking the driving and walking trip to the bar when it's pouring outside. So now's the time to stock up that beer fridge with all different beer styles so you don't get bored of drinking the same thing at home. You can buy whole cases of beer at some stores or pick out one of everything and make your own 6-packs. Appreciate those local brews at this time too because they're brewing the beer for you in the hurricane season, aaaand most likely drinking it too.
Cheers, Brown Specialty Team
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06/07/13, All Weekend, CITRUS PARK
6+ Highland Brewing beers on draught all weekend at Mellow Mushroom in Citrus Park including: Highland Imperial Kashmir IPA, Devil's Britches, and Lil Hump Spring Ale. ...>
06/12/13, 6:00 PM, OVIEDO
Shipyard Brewing Co Beer Dinner at TJ's Seafood Shack - June 12th ...>06/12/13. 6:00 PM, ORLANDO Give Dad what he really wants this year...Amazing craft beer, delicious grilled eats, and an evening on the patio with great company! Featuring Breckenridge, Left Hand, Shipyard, and Bells. *With Special Guests from the Breweries. ...>06/12/13, 5:00 PM, ATLANTIC BEACH Come on down for an Engine 15 Brewing Company Pint Night featuring your favorite local brewery and a chance to meet the brewer. Enter to win a chance to win a 32 oz growler with a free fill! ...>06/14/13, 5:00 PM, WINTER PARK Odin's Den - June 14th Shipyard Brewery Night. ...> Narragansett Radio Promo @ Taps 220 06/14/13 5:00 PM, FLEMING ISLAND We will sample Narragansett and give away raffle tickets to anyone that purchases a pint at Taps 220. Every hour we will raffle off some Narragansett swag (while supplies last). There will be a local radio station broadcasting from the location. ...> Breckenridge Brewery Sampling @ Knightly Spirits 06/15/13, 3:00 PM, ORLANDO Breckenridge Brewery Sampling @ Knightly Spirits on Saturday, June 15th featuring: Vanilla Porter, Agave Wheat, and 471 IPA . ...> Highland Brewing Co. Spotlight Night @ WOB Dr. Phillips 06/15/13, 5:00 PM, ORLANDO Highland Brewing Co. Spotlight Night featuring: Devil's Britches, Imperial Kashmir IPA, Little Hump Spring Ale, Razor Wit Belgian Ale, Mocha Stout, Oatmeal Porter, St. Terese Pale Ale, Kashmir IPA and possibly more! Raffles and Giveaways throughout the night. ...> Sea Dog and Shipyard Brewery Night @ The Eternal Tap 06/15/13, 7:00 PM, ORLANDO Eternal Tap is featuring a Shipyard Monkey Fist Firkin, draught Sea Dog Blue Paw, Sea Dog Apricot, Shipyard Export Ale, Double Thumper, Fuggles, Summer, and Applehead. ...>06/16/13, 3:00 PM, PENSACOLA Hopjacks is partnering with Sea Dog Brewing Company for their "Dog Days of Summer" special running from June 1st to July 31st. For every Sea Dog beer sold, they will be donating 10% to SouthBARK. SouthBARK is a local animal rescue charity. ...>6/18/13, 7:00 PM, PENSACOLA Beer Dinner at the Wine Bar: Delicious food courses paired with delicious beers. Featuring: Melonhead, Summer, Export, Old Thumper, XXXX, Monkey Fist, Hazelnut Porter 7pm. Call for details and reservations: (850) 607-2089 ...> 06/18/13, 6:00 PM, ORANGE PARK Swamp Head Brewery Spotlight Night with Swamp Head on draught as well as a very special firkin of oak-aged Stumpknocker! ...> 06/20/13, 7:00 PM, ORLANDO Shipyard Applehead on draught: buy a pint, keep the glass (while supplies last)! Meet the brewery rep as well as other giveaways throughout the night! ...> 06/20/13, 6:00 PM, PANAMA CITY BEACH Fishale and Sea Dog have partnered up to have our Benefit Beer Dinner Featuring 5 beer pairings with 5 courses for the Humane Society of Bay County. Price $65.00. Purchase tickets at the restaurant. Featuring: Sea Dog Blueberry, Sea Dog Windjammer Blonde, Sea Dog IPA, Sea Dog Gollywobbler, Sea Dog Hazelnut Porter. ...> For all events, please see our event calendar. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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NEW AND RETURNING PRODUCTS
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7venth Sun White Shadow
A Belgian White brewed with orange peel, coriander, cardamom and grains of paradise. This beer is super sessionable for a humid day. 5.5% ABV
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Cigar City Cucumber Saison
It's back! Summer Seasonal and GABF Bronze Medal Winner 2012. Cucumber Saison pours a clear golden-yellow with a thin white head. A sweet, herbal aroma with notes of floral hops, saison yeast, cucumber and fresh squash. A crisp, refreshing taste of herbal hops, yeast, sweet malts, cucumber & a light hoppy bitterness.
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Cigar City Homefront IPA
Homefront IPA is a collaborative beer developed in 2011 by Fremont Brewing Company and COTU brewing company in order to raise money and awareness of Operation Homefront, a charity who provides emergency assistance to our military heroes and their families. Cigar City Brewing, along with several other craft breweries, have joined forces to expand this effort nationwide. Aged on Louisville slugger maplewood baseball bat and brewed with spices, this IPA improves the lives of our soldiers. All proceeds from the sales of this beer go to Operation Homefront. Limited release. 6.0% ABV
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Cigar City Maibock
A hop-bursted take on a traditional German-style Maibock utlizing Czech Saaz and German Hallertauer Mittelfruh hops. Lightly toasted malt helps support this hoppy beast. 7% ABV
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Cisco Summer of Lager
The lager is the lightest, most refreshing of Cisco beers. It's a classic Bavarian style lager with a delicious bready malt palate and an assertive noble hop finish. It just makes your mouth beg for more. Brewed in October for the following summer. 5.6% ABV
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Harpoon Summer Vacation
Seasonal release variety pack. Harpoon strives to make quality beers that are distinctive, delicious, and a pleasure to drink. Cool down this summer with one of the refreshing brews in this quenching pack. Featuring Harpoon Summer, Harpoon IPA, Harpoon UFO White, and Harpoon Midsummer Fling.
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Highland Razor Wit
Returning Seasonal. This Belgian-style Wit, or "white" ale, is an unfiltered wheat beer brewed with traditional ingredients and a Highland twist. Wits are conventionally brewed with noble hops, pale malt, unmalted wheat, orange peel, and coriander. We have made this beer our own by adding other unique spices to create complex aromatics, a refreshing taste, and a crisp finish. Light in color with a smooth body, Razor Wit is perfect for hot summer days and sultry summer nights. 4.5% ABV
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Innis and Gunn Canadian Cherrywood Aged
Strong, sweet and full bodied, we matured this Limited Edition Innis & Gunn over Canadian Black Cherrywood and then finished it before bottling with a touch of maple syrup to give it a sweet, toasty twist. Coming next week. 8.3% ABV
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Fort Collins Maibock
Maibock returns this year. A smooth malty flavor attained from the richness of Munich malts that finishes with gentle warming sweetness. Toffee notes and understated hop bitterness round out the bock experience. Brewed in the Fall, Aged in the Winter, Celebrated in the Spring and Summer. Prost! 6.4% ABV
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Fort Collins Hoptitude Imperial Extra Pale Ale
What's better on a warm day in the mountains (or at sea level, for that matter) than relaxing with a strong beer that drinks easy? Hoptitude has an aromatic orange rind nose courtesy of a late addition of Pacifica hops from New Zealand, a bready malt backbone, a refreshing hop flavor reminiscent of dry grapefruit, and a palate cleansing finish. 7.5% ABV
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Stoudts Heifer-in-Wheat
This Bavarian-style unfiltered wheat beer is brewed with 50% malted barley and 50% malted wheat. Our signature blend of German yeast strains imparts a flavor and aroma reminiscent of bananas, cloves, and bubblegum. Traditionally, weizen beers feature a medium body and high level of spritzy carbonation, and are served as a thirst quencher or sometimes a breakfast beer in the summer. 5.0% ABV
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Left Hand St. Vrain Tripel Ale
Vrain River snakes out of the Rocky Mountains, winding mischievously towards our brewery. Named after Ceran St. Vrain, an 1800's trapper and trader in the valley, St. Vrain is our version of a classic Belgian Tripel. Light in color and lightly hopped using Celeia hops, a touch of malt sweetness contrasts the warm spiciness hidden within. What at first appears benevolent can manifest into a mighty serpent in waiting. 9.3% ABV
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Look out for new and returning favorites like Boulder Kinda Blue, Harpoon Summer Ale, Cigar City Cubano Espresso, and 7venth Sun Red D'or.
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Boy band Hanson created an original craft beer called--yes--Mmmhops
By : Guide Live Group
Big news in the world of '90s boy bands making millennial comebacks: The trio of Tulsa-born Hanson brothers is breaking into craft beer culture with an original brew called, wait for it ... Mmmhops! The beer's namesake song "MMMbop," released in 1996 (that's almost 20 years ago), was recently featured in The Hangover III, and folks at the Rio de Janeiro movie premiere celebrated with the first taste of sonically-inspired suds, according to Bloomberg Businessweek. The beer is slated for release this fall in conjunction with a Hanson tour (uhh...) to promote a new album entitledAnthem (hmmm...). They'll be rocking the stage at House of Blues in Dallas on September 16. Until Mmmhops is available, those made giddy by the news can buy souvenir T-shirts and pint glasses. All proceeds from sales will go to the Red Cross to help with disaster relief efforts in Hanson's home state. An F5 tornado ripped through Moore, practically leveling the town. For full article
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 How to Decipher the Beer List at Your Local Craft Beer Bar
By: Stef Ferrari
It's happened to the best of us. You fancy yourself to be pretty well-versed in all things ale and lager, but suddenly, you find yourself reading through the extensive menu at an ambitious new beer joint and you feel like someone dropped a foreign-language dictionary into your lap.
With thousands of breweries cranking out new beers at a breakneck pace, the reality is that unless you read the beer news blogs religiously and memorize the names of every new label, it can get tricky to know what to order when you're faced with a beer list at your local bar. That's why we're offering a few handy code-cracking tips to help you figure out which options will please your palate without memorizing thousands of different individual beers.
No flash cards will be necessary, I promise. By familiarizing yourself with a few simple cues including some long-time traditions, root words, and cultural commonalities, you'll have some easy keys to demystifying the beer menu and securing a satisfying beverage. Because really, we just want you to enjoy what you're drinking.
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 Savoring the Principles of Craft Beer and Food Pairings
By: Julia HerzIt's not uncommon to walk into a fine dining establishment and see a wine list as thick as the dictionary, along with suggested food pairings. But it's important to point out that wine isn't the only beverage advancing the food arts world. As demand for craft brewed beer from small and independent brewers continues to grow, so does the desire from beer lovers to have great pairing options and a varied array of selections at these kinds of establishments. Craft beer and food work just as well, if not better, than food and wine. Crazy? Think again. Because of beer's broad range of flavors, elements, sensations and intensities, it provides both complementary and contrasting interactions that mesh with nearly any kind of food, whereas wine mostly contrasts against food when paired. But before putting craft beer and food together, it's helpful to keep these basic pairing practices in mind. For full article |
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Featured Cocktail:
- 1 can or bottle of IPA - 4 oz of Riesling - 4 oz lemon juice or lemonade - 7 to 8 mint leafs - 7 to 8 fresh basil leafs - 1/2 Orange or Tangerine sliced
Build the cocktail in a pitcher without adding the beer.
Load the glass with ice, then slowly pour in the IPA of your choice.
Serve in 20oz Imperial Pint Glass.
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Featured Recipe
 Bacon, Blue Cheese and Beer Potato Salad
By: Intoxicating Eats
Difficulty: Easy
Bacon. Blue cheese. Beer. Potatoes. These ingredients don't just go together--they belong together.
Ingredients:
- 2.5 to 3 lbs potatoes (red preferably) - 6 slices bacon - 4 scallions or spring onions - 1/2 cup Pale Ale - 2 Tbsp. mayonnaise - 2 tsp. spicy brown mustard - 1/4 tsp. garlic powder - Hot Sauce - Salt and Pepper - 1 cup blue cheese
Directions: Wash potatoes and chop in bite size pieces.
Place in a pot and cover with cold water.
Bring to a boil and cook until the potatoes are fork tender.
While you are waiting for the potatoes to come to a boil, cook the bacon and let cool.
Chop your onion (use whites and greens) and bacon.
In the bottom of your serving bowl, combine beer, mayonnaise, mustard, garlic powder, and add hot sauce, salt and pepper to taste.
When potatoes are done, drain and add the beer mixture.
Add onions, bacon and blue cheese.
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