Creative Loafing Meet the Brewers 2016

Start

Feb 28, 2016 12:00 AM

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Feb 28, 2016 12:00 AM

Address

CL Space
1911 N 13th St, Ste W200, Florida 33605

Beer enthusiasts rejoice! Meet The Brewers is back.   Join us in celebrating the release of Creative Loafing’s annual Drinking Issue at Meet The Brewers, where 20 of Tampa Bay’s very own brewers will be on-site sampling and mingling with an intimate crowd—a unique opportunity to sample your favorite local brews and rub elbows with the brewers behind them!   Plus, take advantage of Premier Photo Booths of Florida's photo booth, learn more about Tampa Bay Beer Week, enter to win a happy hour for up to 10 of your friends courtesy of Ameriprise Financial, enjoy food for purchase by New World Brewery, and get your hands on a copy of CL's annual Drinking Issue!   FEATURING: • Big Storm Brewing Co. - Wavemaker Amber Ale & Helicity Pilsner • Tampa Bay Brewing Company - Old Man Olde Ale & Reef Donkey • Six Ten Brewing - OWC & CBGB • 3 Daughters Brewing - A Wake Coffee Blonde Ale & 4 Redemption Bourbon Barrel Aged Quad • Brew Bus Brewing - You're My Boy, Blue! & Rollin' Dirty Irish Red Ale • Saint Somewhere Brewing Company - Eté San Fin & Cheval • Brewers' Tasting Room - Bad Badger Hefeweizen & Bad Badger Imperial Oatmeal Stout • Motorworks Brewing - V-Twin Lager & Midnight Espresso • Rock Brothers Brewing - High Road Ale & Nare Sugar Brown • Darwin Brewing Company - Circa 1926 Tangerine Wheat & Pirata Pils • Mastry's Brewing Co. - Sun Salted Ale & Rainy Season Saison • Crooked Thumb Brewery - Florida Grapefruit Gose & Abbey of the South Trippel • Rapp Brewing Company - Gose & Ginger Beer • Big Top Brewing Company - Ashley Gang Imperial IPA & Okefenokee Imperial Stout • Cigar City Cider & Mead - Wise Prick Cider & Peach Habanero Cider • Pair O' Dice Brewing Co. - Clearwater Honey Cream & Hop Bet Red IPA • Marker 48 Brewing - Pine Island IPA, Mermaids Milk Stout, & Nurse Rachet Cherry Sour • Coppertail Brewing Co. - Free Dive & Purple Drank • Mad Beach Brewing - Kalypso Key Lime Cider & Halletoren Quad • Brew Hub - Key Billy, Diver Down, Umatilla Coffee Barleywine, & Thunder Axe Smoked Baltic Porter & more!   Event Details: Saturday., February 27th 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. VIP Hour: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. CL Space + Courtyard 1911 N. 13th St. in Tampa   GA: $35 Adv. | $40 Door General Admission includes 16 beer sampling tickets. Each beer sampling ticket is good for a 3-ounce taste. Use four beer sampling tickets to get a full 12-ounce pour. Additional drink tickets will be available for purchase for $1 each.   VIP: $80 Adv. | $85 Door VIP includes a VIP-only hour from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. where you can enjoy unlimited beer sampling (unlimited sampling available during VIP hour), 20 beer sampling tickets to use after VIP hour, and complimentary pizza and pork bomb with chips by New World Brewery. Each beer sampling ticket is good for a 3-ounce taste. Use four beer sampling tickets to get a full 12-ounce pour.   Desinated Driver tickets are available for $7.   Get your tickets in advance to guarantee entry!   A portion of proceeds to benefit Current Initiatives, a not-for-profit organization incorporated in Florida that started with young adults committed to educating others on current social initiatives and mobilizing them to bring about change.   We've teamed up with Lyft to get attendees to and from Meet The Brewers safely! First-time Lyft users, get your first ride free up to $20 by downloading the app, creating an account, and entering the code CLTAMPA in the ‘Payment’ section.   Special thanks to Meet The Brewers 2016 sponsors and partners Tampa Bay Beer Week, Big Storm Brewing Co., New World Brewery, Ameriprise Financial, and Premier Photobooths of Tampa.   cltampa.com/meetthebrewers | #CLBrewers   Programming subject to change. Event takes place rain or shine. No refunds are available.   For more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/162460927455667/