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Pumpkin Beer All Day, Every Day
We often go crazy over pumpkin flavored everything this time of year. Can you blame us? October 1st and pumpkins are one of the few things in Florida that makes us feel like we actually have weather-changing seasons. The one day the temperature suddenly drops 10 degrees (only from 80° to 70° F) and we get all giddy, order our Starbucks pumpkin spice latte, pick up a pack of pumpkin beer, make pumpkin muffins, buy pumpkins to carve, light up our pumpkin candles, buy more pumpkin beer because we want to try ALL of them...well, you get the idea. Back in colonial times, before good barley was accessible, brewers used fruits and vegetables like corn, pumpkin, and squash since it was easily available. Back then they actually replaced the malt completed with a pumpkin. Nowadays, craft breweries use the gourd to add to the malts to come up with creative ways to highlight the pumpkin superstar in a more savory treat; things like clove, nutmeg, cinnamon and allspice or vanilla and molasses are just some of the flavoring agents used. The style can vary from an ale, to a lager, or to an imperial higher alcohol ale. Truth is, if you like pumpkin, you'll enjoy all of these varieties of pumpkin beer, and they'll be sure to get you in the fall spirit.
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Brown Specialty Team
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10/12/13, 3:00 PM, TAMPA
Help Raise Money for the Humane Society of Tampa Bay! Bring your dog dressed up in a costume for a costume contest! Prizes will be up for raffle! Sample any of the following Sea Dog brews for the event: Sea Dog IPA, Sea Dog Hazelnut Porter, Sea Dog Raspberry, or Sea Dog Blue Paw. ...>
10/14/13, 5:30 PM, ORLANDO
Beer Dinner including reception plus four courses, each paired with one Cask & Larder beer and one 7venth Sun beer. Seating is limited. Call for reservations: 321-280-4200. ...>
10/14/13, 6:30 PM, ORLANDO
The Smiling Bison's first beer dinner! Four Cigar City beer pairings and Four courses plus a reception snack. $60 per person, tax and gratuity included. Seating is limited. Call for reservations: 407-259-8036. ...>
10/16/13, 7:00 PM, MADEIRA BEACH
Shipyard Brewing is having a raffle night to win some swag! Join the Hooters at Madeira Beach for some Shipyard Pumpkinhead and a couple of raffle giveaways. ...>
10/17/13, 5:30 PM, ALTAMONTE SPRINGS
Ayinger Oktober-fest Marzen will be on draught for the night! Receive a raffle ticket and enter to win Ayinger gifts while quantities last. Prost! ...>
10/17/13, 6:00 PM, ORLANDO
Trucks & Tech is a mashup between two cultures that we love - foodies and techies. This will be an Oktoberfest themed event featuring German inspired food from each food truck - participants are encouraged to come in costume. It will feature some of Orlando's best food trucks along with technology discussion and demonstrations. Featuring 200 beer boots being handed out in the beginning, and plenty of beer available throughout the night to go around including Shipyard Pumpkinhead and Shipyard Export Ale. ...>
10/17/13, 7:00 PM , TAMPA
Shipyard Brewing is having a Pint Night! Join the Hooters in Tampa for some Shipyard Pumpkinhead and keep the souvenir glass while supplies last. ...>
10/17/13, 7:00 PM, GAINESVILLE
Meet the Florida representatives from Breckenridge Brewery and Boulder Brewing as we showcase some great beers from Colorado. Featuring Breckenridge Vanilla Porter, Breckenridge Autumn Ale, Boulder Hazed and Infused, Boulder Dragonhosen, and more!...>
10/18/13 and 10/19/13, 5:30 PM, LAKE BUENA VISTA
Duration: 1 Days 3 Hours 30 Minutes
Join Disney to sample wine and craft beer from around the world and savor culinary artistry from pastries to pasta on the mezzanine connecting the Swan and Dolphin Resort. The Food & Wine Classic also offers educational seminars if you would like to impress friends with your knowledge of wines, cocktails and beer that start at 4:30pm. Featuring beer from Cigar City brewing, Highland Brewing, Breckenridge Brewery, Swamp Head Brewing, and more! ...>
10/18/13, 6:00 PM, LAND O' LAKES
Receive a raffle ticket with every Ayinger beer purchase and enter to win Ayinger gifts while quantities last. Prost! ...>
10/18/13, 7:00 PM, SPRING HILL
Shipyard Brewing is having a Pint Night! Join the Hooters in Spring Hill for some Shipyard Pumpkinhead and keep the glass while supplies last. ...>
10/19/13, 3:00 PM, OCALA
The 3rd Annual Craftoberfest is here, featuring live music, more than a hundred different beers and much more! This year's event will benefit the Ocala Outreach Foundation Inc., a local charity, that uses it's donations to help our local community. Fore more information and tickets, visit ...>
10/19/13, 12:00 PM, ORLANDO
Celebrate Orlando's love of watersports! Orlando Extreme Watersports Fest will include professional wakeboarding and waterskiing competitions, wakesurf and wakeskate demonstrations, great food, and family fun Activities. Narragansett Brewing will be sponsoring the VIP booth so that Narragansett lager tallboy cans will be available throughout the entire event! ...>
10/19/13, ALL DAY, MELBOURNE
Get your German beer fix and drink some authentic German beers like Bischoff Pilsner, Bischoff Dopplebock, and Gaffel Kolsch on draught. Prost! ...>
10/23/13, 7:00 PM, ST. PETERSBURG
Shipyard Brewing is having a Raffle Swag Night! Join the Hooters in St. Pete for some Shipyard Pumpkinhead and raffles giveaways. ...>
10/24/13, 6:30 PM, ST. PETERSBURG
The Ale & The Witch will be tapping the limited Game of Thrones Take the Black Stout along with Ommegang Witte, BPA and Hennepin. They will be having a food pairing with smoked game and hand-crafted BBQ sauces made from Ommegang beers from the Witches' BBQ Den.
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10/26/13, ALL DAY, DAYTONA BEACH
Drink Like a local with Swamp Head Brewery on draught featuring the following brews: Cottonmouth, Stumpknocker, Wild Night, Big Nose, Midnight Oil, Gainesville Green, and Darkwater! ...>
10/26/13, 7:00 PM, ORLANDO
Grab your boots and don't forget to dust off your cowboy hat! Enjoy gourmet fare, wine and craft beer tastings from more than sixteen local restaurants. Eat, drink and give back, as 100 percent of the proceeds benefit Community Food & Outreach Center and Elevate Orlando. Featuring breweries such as Brasser D'achouffe, Duvel, Samuel Smith, Lindeman's, Swamp Head, Cigar City, and more! ...>
10/26/13, 7:00 PM, SANFORD
Four Course Meal featuring 5 Cigar City beers paired with 5 food pairings. Representative Josh, the Cigar City Brewmaster, will be in attendance to discuss the beer choices. $55 per person. Call for reservations: 406-688-2508. ...>
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Founders Rubaeus
Not another boring wheat beer or lemonade shandy. Rubaeus is Founders' way to celebrate the season's warmest months, or in our case, almost every month in Florida besides December. Optimizing the flavor of fresh raspberries added at multiple stages during fermentation, this stunning berry red masterpiece is the perfect balance of sweet and tart. 5.7% ABV
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Originally this beer was an experimentation in Bell's Wheat Project from 2005. Remade now, the final product, Bell's Wheat Love Ale, is made with eight yeasts and wheat made up of 55% Wheat and 45% Barley malt. It is a strong, but relatively light colored, "wheatwine." 8.0% ABV
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Red Brick Brewing is Atlanta's oldest craft brewery, with their Brown Ale being the first beer produced back in 1993. Now, Red Brick has renamed their brown ale to A-Town Brown, with a label that depicts some iconic Atlanta buildings and things like MARTA the mass transit train, the capitol building, the Hyatt Hotel, Hank Aaron's 715, etc. The beer itself was inspired by the malty brews of England, but with an American sized attitude. It's surprisingly light bodied, which plays well with the sweet caramel, fresh pecan, and bread notes you discover on each sip. Brown Ale is a great beer to enjoy outdoors on a clear autumn afternoon. 6.25% ABV
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Why a sixth-grader wants to brew beer in space (+video) 
By: Jaspar Hamilla
Mankind may be one step closer to getting extraterrestrial breweries - thanks to an eleven-year-old.
Michal Bodzianowski, 11, is among the winners of the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education's Student Spaceflight Experiments Program, which sends student experiments to the International Space Station. His project, "What Are the Effects of Creation of Beer in Microgravity and Is It Possible?," will be ferried upward this November as part of the program's "Mission 4."
Bodzianowski, a sixth-grader at the SETEM School and Academy in Colorado's Douglas County School District, says he wants to find out if it's possible to brew beer in space, mixing crushed malted barley, bottled water, and yeast. It's an idea that he says could help in developing backup water supplies for future extraterrestrial colonies, since alcohol is lethal to bacteria.
Indeed, for Bodzianowski, putting microbreweries in space has little to do with furnishing Martian taps. Instead, beer could be a safe drinking water substitute in the event of an off-world disaster that contaminates the brought-along water supplies, says Bodzianowski. That's because the fermentation process kills off water contaminants.
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 Georgia Florida Rivalry Gets a Beer Too
By: Beer Street Journal
More SEC Football rivalry. Terrapin Beer Company's "Spike" is in Florida today brewing a beer with Swamp Head (Gainesville) on a new collaboration called Bitter Rivalry. If you know nothing of the rivalry that is the Florida Gators and Georgia Bulldogs, it's... huge.
The two teams can't play at their own stadiums. They have to play on neutral ground in Jacksonville, Florida. "The Landing" in Jacksonville becomes the worlds largest outdoor cocktail party in America. Trust me, I've been.
The rivalry heats up today with this new collaboration. Swamp Head is teasing details, but haven't commented on the style. There are oranges involved, we know this much.
The Georgia/Florida game this year is November 2. There will be release parties and activities around this beer closer to the bloodbath. Oh, and by the way this isn't Spike's first SEC rivalry brew this year. In August he went to Knoxville, Tennessee (that's UT territory) to brew another rivalry brew.
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This craft beer is for you, bud
By : Alan Snel
When it comes to beers in National Hockey League arenas across Canada, the big guys are Molson Coors Brewing and Labatt Brewing Co.
But craft beers are slowly muscling their way into NHL arenas and other major-league sports venues as stadiums understand that the microbrew companies are offering a tasty, diversified product that fans desire.
Bear witness to a small microbrewery two hours north of Toronto called Lake of the Bays, which unveiled a new lager called Top Shelf at the annual National Beer Wholesalers Association trade show in Las Vegas this week.
The lager, named for the top section of the net where goals are scored, will be poured at NHL arenas in Canada and Lake of the Bays also signed a deal to become the official brewery of the NHL Alumni Association.
"Having a hockey-related beer gets you into the sports bars and sports-oriented retailer purchasers," said Ian Smith, who enjoys the enviable job title of chief beer taster of Lake of the Bays Brewing.
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Featured Recipe
 Grilled Beer Brats with German Potato Salad
By: Ezra Pound Cake It's time to fire up the grill and get in the Okotberfest spirit. This delicious duo, combining two classics, is perfect all October long. Adapted from original recipe by Emeril Lagasse (via Food Network). Ingredients Brats: - 4 Oktoberfest style beers, 12 ounces each (ex. Highland Clawhammer, Ayinger, Left Hand, Penn, Stoudt's or Summit's Oktoberfest, - 1 1/2 pounds Bratwurst links (2 to 3 ounce links) - Vegetable oil, for brushing brats - Brat rolls (hot dog buns or pretzel rolls) - Crock of whole grain mustard Potato Salad: -2 pounds baking potatoes, peeled and diced - 6 ounces raw bacon, chopped - 1 cup chopped onions - Salt and Freshly ground black pepper - Up to 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar (add a small amount at a time, and taste - 1/4 cup whole grain mustard - 4 hard-boiled eggs, sliced (optional) - 1/4 cup chopped green onions Directions Brats: In a saucepan, over medium heat, bring the beer up to a simmer. Add the brats, and cook until plump, about 6 minutes. Preheat the grill. Lightly brush the sausages with oil. Place on the grill, and cook for a few minutes on each side. Remove the sausages from the grill, and serve with potato salad, rolls and mustard. Potato Salad: Place the potatoes in a second saucepan, and cover them with salted water by 2 inches. Place the saucepan over medium heat, and simmer the potatoes until tender, about 15 minutes. Drain well, and return to the saucepan to keep warm. In the meantime, grab a skillet and cook the bacon until crispy over medium heat. Add the onions, and season with pepper. Sauté for 1 minute. Remove from the heat. Set aside. Transfer the potatoes and the bacon mixture (including the fat) to a large mixing bowl. Add vinegar (to taste), mustard, eggs and green onions. Season with salt and pepper. Mix well. Using the back of a spoon, mash the mixture together. ____________________
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