After months of feverishly choosing the best coffee house (Eternity Coffee Roasters), the best bar food (The Local Craft Food & Drink), the best restaurant value (Blue Collar), the best food truck (Mr. Good Stuff), and everything in between, we could sure use a drink!The nice folks at Wood Tavern…
Most of us working stiffs don’t have mad cash to drop on huge quantities of good-quality beer. What is the alternative? Twenty-four-hour gas stations stocked with little rescue kits of mass-produced brew.There are many selections, but here is a list of ten that every beer fiend should consider when strolling…
Miami’s cocktail culture is still in its fledgling stage. While cities such as New York and New Orleans have dozens of bars where master mixologists create artful libations, Miami is still a relative child when it comes to serving thoughtful drinks made with fresh herbs, real fruit juices, and spirits…
Earlier this week, we met with Peruvian pisco master distiller Johnny Schuler. He is one seriously passionate man when it comes to pisco. For two hours we talked, drank, and smelled like nothing more than pisco.This was all before 2 p.m., of course.He left us with a bottle of his…
Bella Beach, a chic Mediterranean-inspired restaurant and lounge located at Trump International Beach Resort has come up with a mouth-watering idea: free “Hurricane Bella” shots, made with a blend of Malibu Passion Fruit Rum, orange and lime juice, simple syrup and Blue Curacao. For the next few months, if you’re…
Wynwood coffee roaster Panther Coffee and Gastropod Mobile Gourmet food truck are teaming up with local beer artist Diego Ganoza from Gravity Brewbar. On June 22, they’ll host the Brewhouse Bash.Panther Coffee is honchoing the event from 7 to 10:30 p.m. and Ganoza will be ready and waiting with at…
Six of Miami’s best bartenders met at Blackbird Ordinary for a little friendly competition at the Marie Brizard Cocktail Challenge semi-finals. Robert Montero (Sra. Martinez), Fraser Hamilton (Blackbird Ordinary), Mary Connoly (Meat Market & Bar Lab), Phillip Khanderhrish (The Setai), Paul Sauter (Mercadito), and Nick Nisico (Soho Beach House) created…
Over the last year, Miami has seen the birth of many new homebrewing clubs, But there is one that has been here the longest: Miami Area Society of Homebrewers, or M.A.S.H.The club started in 1994 when a small but dedicated band of Miami home brewers gathered at what used to…
Five of Miami’s top mixologists will compete tonight for the opportunity to shake their stuff at the annual Tales of the Cocktail in the Marie Brizard USA Cocktail Challenge Semifinals.The competition, which is free and open to the public, takes place tonight from 6 – 8 p.m. at Blackbird Ordinary…
If you’re looking to spend about $200 on a special gift for dad on Father’s Day (June 17) — one that he can wring quite a bit of pleasure from — this just might be it: Thor, a new 16 year old single malt Scotch whisky from Highland Park’s Valhalla…
Happy Memorial Day, Miami. If there’s sun — and the forecast calls for an end to this damn rain — you will want to grill out with an ice-cold beer in hand. But when you’re sipping on that brewski while the blazing-hot charcoals reach proper temperature, consider using beer as…
When it comes to local beer in New Orleans, two brands that come to mind are Dixie and Abita. Neither is brewed in the city, with Dixie contract-brewed out of Wisconsin and Abita brewed on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain. But there is one beer in New Orleans that…
Looking to travel abroad in the name of American Craft Beer Week? How about this? Go check out Miami homebrewers Jonathan Wakefield, Diego Ganoza and Robert Tejon who will be competing in the first ever Berliner Bash on the Bay to be held at Peg’s Cantina in Gulfport, Florida, near…
Did you know women were the original brewmasters?Arwen Lehman and the Craft Brewjas crew she rolls with aren’t just consumers, they’re also secretly brewing up their own batches of fine suds.We caught up with her and friends at The Federal, The Bar, and The Local to see what she had…
American Craft Beer Week is a little half way over, and there are several more events around Miami worth checking out for the beer-loving warrior. Before the week is finished, make an effort to attend and sip, or chug, some fine and local hand-crafted beersRemember Brews & Bellies at The…
Craft alcohologist Nick Armada went to beer college at FIU before starting CerveTech in the Bird Road Arts district.He can tell you all about how yeast are living micro-organisms, why fungi eat sugar and excrete alcohol, and how enzymes make it all possible.Read this week’s feature on Nick’s company to…
American Craft Beer Week is the mother of all suds lovin’ celebrations. Lokal Burgers & Beer in Coconut Grove is embracing this momentous occasion by giving over its taps to beers brewed locally in Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties. Starting at 6 p.m., newly-opened Due South Brewing Company from…
This week, our feature story takes a closer look at Miami’s quickly rising craft beer scene. But besides the homebrew clubs and restaurants, there are the writers who are blogging about craft beer in South Florida.We want to recognize the following blogs in honor of American Craft Beer Week. Some…
My Ceviche is South Beach’s answer to the pretentious, over-priced corporate establishments on Ocean Drive and Collins Avenue. Co-owners Roger Duarte and James-Beard-nominated executive chef Sam Gorenstein are one reason, and Tuesday they plan on celebrating another.”Locals are what drive this establishment,” said Duarte, between answering phones and taking orders…
“Local” Haitian beer Prestige won a gold medal yesterday for Best American-Style Cream or Ale. It took category #42 at the winners’ banquet during the World Beer Cup competition in San Diego.Miami is not considered part of the Caribbean, but Prestige was as close as Florida got to receiving any…
Deep in the bowels of the liquor closet of the Dutch lie some old bourbon barrels, just sitting around..or so it seems. Those barrels actually contain the Dutch’s limited edition series of libations aged in small batches.First a cocktail is invented and crafted by the Dutch’s bar team. Then the…
American Craft Beer Week in Miami begins Monday, May 14. What better excuse do you need to dress up like Gambrinus with beer stein in hand for seven days in a row?Brown Distributing is helping Miami shake its non-beer-loving image by driving all over the county to make sure there are enough…
