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Engine 15 Brewing Co. Oktoberfest this Weekend

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Put it on your calendar folks. Join Engine 15 Brewing Co. for one of the world’s most celebrated beer holidays, Oktoberfest! The unforgettable event takes place Saturday, October 4th at 11 AM at the Engine 15 Pub and begins with O’zapft is!, the official tapping of the Oktoberfest beer. The party gets real serious at 1 PM with MaBkrugstemmen Wed (or the Feats of Strength), which will challenge any beer lover and their ability to hold a full liter beer glass. This year there will even be MaB koozies! The afternoon will continue into the night with the crowning of the Oktoberfest King and Queen, Chicken Sh*t Bingo and live music by Mark O’Quinn at 5:30. There will be beer and food specials all day. Including delicious Big Ass Pretzels and Brats, complete with your favorite potato salad.

Engine 15 is excited for this amazing celebration, “This is one of our favorite days of the year so it will be a great day. Hope you can join us.  As always, we really appreciate your business and are always here to support your drinking habits.” PROST!

Timeline of awesomeness:

  • 11am Tapping E15 Oktoberfest Beer
  • 1pm Feats of Strength
  • 2pm Crowning of Oktoberfest King & Queen
  • 2:30 One Step Ahead of the Law – Oompah Band
  • 5pm Chicken Sh*t Bingo
  • 5:30 Live Music – Mark O’Quinn
  • 6pm Lederhosen & Dirndl Winners*

*You don’t have to be present to win but you do have to let us take your picture

Beer Specials

  • $20 MaB +  fill with E15 Oktoberfest or (904) Weissguy
  • $8 refills all month

Food Specials:

  • Big Ass Pretzels
  • Oktoberfest Brats w/ German Potato Salad

See you on Saturday. Remember your lederhosen!

Five Facts About Craft Beer Northeast Florida

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By: PATRICK DONGES of WJCT News

With news that a national craft brewing organization chose Jacksonville for it’s next annual convention, we’ve compiled this list of five little known facts about the region’s burgeoning craft beer scene.

1. Jacksonville’s Intuition Ale Works was the first craft brewery in the state to can its beer

Credit Intuition Ale Works
“They beat out Tampa Brewing Company by a few days and Cigar City by a few weeks,” said Gerard Walen, author of Florida Breweries and Florida beer blogger.

This means Intuition was also the first craft brewery in Florida to use the recycled plastic packaging that is becoming popular with craft brewers across the country.

2. Jacksonville master brewers produce 15,000 barrels of beer per year

That’s according to an estimate from city tourism agency Visit Jacksonville, which is currently working with local breweries to launch a self-guided “Jax Ale Trail” tour to help promote craft beer in the city.

Each barrel is equal to 31 gallons, which means Jacksonville’s craft breweries put out about 465,000 gallons of beer per year. That’s enough beer to fill an Olympic-size swimming pool and still have 5,000 gallons to spare.

3. Jacksonville’s Bold City Brewery will pour your first flight for free

That’s right — Jacksonville’s Bold City Brewery will let you sample anything they have on tap totally on the house if it is your first time there. For the uninitiated, a flight is a selection of sample pours, usually between 3 and 5 ounces and presented in order of increasing flavor.

Gerard Walen says the bold move comes from Bold City’s philosophy that the taproom should be both a sales generator and a marketing tool, and that it’s the only brewery in the state he knows of offering a free flight.

FOR FULL ARTICLE: http://news.wjct.org/post/five-facts-about-craft-beer-northeast-florida

Engine 15 partners with Jacksonville Armada For World Cup

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With the World Cup on the Horizon, America (and Florida) is starting to focus attention on Soccer. Surely, the most popular sport in the world pairs with one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world, beer.

Engine 15 of Jacksonville Beach has partnered with the Jacksonville’s Armada Football Club to provide some local Florida beer for the World Cup Fan Watch Parties.

Starting on Monday, June 16th Engine 15 will be featured at the Downtown Party at Jacksonville Landing for the Ghana VS USA game which kicks-off at 6:00pm. Party goes from 5:30 – 8:30pm. Join the Jacksonville Armada and Engine for the game with “Engine 15” Soccer Bar, Genuine Brazilian Samba dancers, Cole Pepper EMCEE with live competitions and giveaways; World Cup prizes, Half-time skills competition and freestyle soccer demonstration and much more more.

The festivities will continue and Engine 15 beer will be flowing through the world cup. For more information and event details visit the Armada Website.

Win or lose, we know there will be some great beer flowing thanks to the folks at Engine 15!