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Swamp Head New Brewery Grand Opening

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Swamp Head built a New Brewery! Come celebrate with them on Saturday, February 21st. Here are the details, straight from Swamp Head:

***DUE TO CIRCUMSTANCES OUT OF OUR CONTROL, WE ARE STILL NOT ALLOWED TO LET ANYONE DRINK BEER OUTSIDE. IT MAY GET PRETTY CROWDED INSIDE DURING THE GRAND OPENING, AND FROM TIME TO TIME WE MAY HAVE TO HOLD PEOPLE OUTSIDE DUE TO CAPACITY RESTRICTIONS. WE HOPE THIS DOESN’T HAPPEN, BUT WANT YOU ALL TO BE IN THE LOOP. SORRY IN ADVANCE FOR ANY “WAITING PATIENTLY” THAT YOU HAVE TO PARTICIPATE IN ON SATURDAY*** NOW THAT WE HAVE THAT BEHIND US…

Cut ribbon, drink beer.

Many of you have been seen around our new tasting room for the few weeks of soft openings, but how many of you will be here when we make it official?!

We’re hosting a Grand Opening Celebration this Saturday from 1pm to 9pm, complete with a ribbon cutting, a tree planting, brewery tours, food trucks, and, you guessed it… BEER.

Here is the general schedule for the event.  See you Saturday!

Event Schedule:

12:45pm – Ribbon Cutting
1:45pm – Tree Planting
2:30pm – Tours Start
ALL DAY: Our tasting room will be open for normal hours of hoperation. Hang out, drink beer, smile.

Food Trucks

Humble Pie Wood Fired Pizza
Off the Griddle

Important Beer Information

Timed Tappings: Info coming soon

Bottle Releases: Info coming soon

Recent Releases You’ll Find:

Chocolate Orange Udderly Calm – Draft Only
Batch 800 (Peanut Butter & Jelly Ale) – Draft Only
20yr Pappy Barrel Aged 10-10-10 – Draft and Bottle (If the bottles haven’t sold out)

Tour Schedule
The grand opening will be the first time we embark on brewery tours at our new brewery. We will host 5 tours throughout the day, and you can register at The Wetlands for a tour. We will not charge for tours at the Grand Opening Celebration, and therefore will not be giving out beers or brewery tour pint glasses. Be ready with a beer in hand at time of tour if you would like to sip on one while you check out the new digs.

2:30pm
3:15pm
4:00pm
4:45pm
5:15pm

Please email info@swamphead.com with any questions you may have about this event. Cheers!

Cigar City White Oak Jai Alai Returns!

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Cigar City is releasing their highly sought-after White Oak Jai Alai for the first time in 2015!

” This is an American White Oak-aged version of Jai Alai India Pale Ale. The white oak adds smoothing notes of vanilla and slight hints of dill to the aroma and flavor profile. The finish is elegantly dry due to the light tannin notes from oak aging and though still loaded with hop flavor, hop bitterness is more restrained.”

Look for this beer in 4-pack cans at retailers across the state as well as on draft at select craft beer bars!

Six Ten Brewing Launches Distribution

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Six Ten Brewing partners with Brown Distributing

(Tampa, FL) – Six Ten Brewing opened the doors to their brewery and tasting room in February of 2014. The 3300 square foot facility is located at 7052 Benjamin Road and sits just south of the canal in the Town and Country neighborhood of Tampa. The three vessel, ten barrel brew house was custom built by Premier Stainless Systems of Escondido California and was engineered specifically for Six Ten Brewing.  The first kegs are expected to be tapped in early March to celebrate Tampa Bay Beer Week.

Co-founders, Christopher and Leslie Johnson began planning the opening of their brewery in late 2012 when they made the decision to leave their careers in the corporate world to follow their passion for craft beer and dream to open their own business: “We left the 9 to 5 behind us, our future is all about 6:10”.

Chris, who has been brewing for over 20 years, was a founding member of Tampa’s first home brewing club the Tampa Bay B.E.E.R.S. back in 1990.   He started brewing competitively about four years ago and his creations have won numerous medals in local, regional and national brewing competitions.  Leslie has always had the desire to own her own company and operating a brewery is without a doubt a challenge that satisfies her entrepreneurial dream.

Six Ten Brewing offers a variety of hand-crafted ales and lagers made with the finest quality malted barley, hops, yeast and water.  These beers are available to the public in the brewery tasting room which also offers beer to go in growlers, bottles, and kegs.

Six Ten has built a large and loyal customer following and now believes the time is right to begin distribution so their hand crafted brews can reach a larger audience.  “We believe that Brown Distributing really understands what Craft Beer is all about and that they are the best partner to help us reach our goals.  We couldn’t be happier.”   Distribution of Six Ten beers will begin at the end of February, just one year from their public opening and just in time for Tampa Bay Beer Week.

Six Ten Brewing offers a variety of hand-crafted ales and lagers made with the finest quality malted barley, hops, yeast and water.  These beers are available to the public in the brewery tasting room which also offers beer to go in growlers, bottles, and kegs.

To keep up to date on the status of the brewery, connect with Six Ten through their mobile app which can be downloaded from the Apple and Google Play stores, their website (www.sixtenbrewing.com), social media (Facebook/SixTenBrewing and Twitter @SixTenBrewing) or by email hello@sixtenbrewing.com.