Happy New Year! Let's start 2025 off BIG. Sailfish Brewing is easily the largest brewery in St. Lucie County, possibly the entire Treasure Coast. There are a few others that may hold claim to that, but Sailfish has been doing quite well for themselves in their downtown Ft. Pierce home. We sat down with President and Co-Founder of Sailfish Brewing, David BuShea, and longtime friend of the podcast and Sailfish Sales Manager, Brian Tonnessen, to talk about their humble beginnings in the yellow house and bringing craft beer to Ft. Pierce. Listen in...

Host: David Butler of the Florida Beer Blog

Executive Producer: Jaime (“Jemmy”) Legagneur, Chief Enthusiasm Officer

Field Producer/Photographer: Steve Pekala

Editor: Daniel Delgado

Guest: David BuShea, President and Co-Founder of Sailfish Brewing

Guest: Brian Tonnessen, Sales Director of Sailfish Brewing

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For the Florida Beer Podcast, North Miami Brewfest is the gift that keeps on giving with amazing breweries celebrating beer and the south Florida beer scene every year. Our gracious hosts once again are the Chaplin School of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Florida International University, as they put this festival on every year. We start this episode with Chef John Noble Massey, head chef of the ultra-exclusive and frankly amazing looking FIU Bistro on the FIU/Chaplin School's Biscayne Bay campus. From there we speak to Carrie from soon to open Scarab Brewing, who's Golden Stout was a particular hit of my entire team. Unseen Creatures has just announced a merger with Prison Pals, so we spoke once again to Prison Pals' Brewmaster Diego Setti, along with Joaquin Lozano and Nacho, the new owners of Unseen Creatures about what this partnership is going to look like. From there we touch base with Rudy and Ricardo from Rocketeer Beer, the winners of both last year and this year's Best Beer at the event, with an update on their soon-to-open Kendall brewery. We finish up with co-founders Michael and Carlos from Lemondade Hard Seltzer, an amazing seltzer that also won third place for the beer competition and their incredible seltzers. Listen in...

Host: David Butler of the Florida Beer Blog

Executive Producer: Jaime (“Jemmy”) Legagneur, Chief Enthusiasm Officer

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Guest: Chef John Noble Massey, FIU Bistro

Guest: Kerrie Opprecht, Scarab Brewing

Guest: Joaquin Lozano & Nacho and Diego Setti, Unseen Creatures/Prison Pals

Guest: Rudy Delgago and Ricardo Abreu, Rocketeer Beer

Guest: Michael Rios and Carlos Aguerro, Lemondade Hard Seltzer

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I do enjoy a good beer fest. Happily, I was able to enjoy a good beer fest and one that I had not been to before! And while Champions Beerfest has been on the Florida Beer Podcast before, that was pre-COVID and, unfortunately, I never got the chance to attend. But, it was back--in a new home at Mardi Gras Casino in Hallandale Beach. I spoke with organizer Jim Hammett and host Virginia Sinicki of 97.9 WRMF's KVJ show about the festival, brands represented, and their beneficiary Little Smiles (LittleSmilesFL.org). From there, I chatted a bit with Lorenzo Borghese, founder of South Beach Brewing, Chris Hall of Noxx and Dunn Florida Rum, and Amyad Amra of Two Drums Florida Rum Cocktail, all of which were happy to provide a little insight into their brands and how they are able to spread a little Florida sunshine through their products. Listen in... 

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Guest: Jim Hammitt, Champions Beerfest

Guest: Virginia Sinicki, The KVJ Show

Guest: Lorenzo Borghese, Founder of South Beach Brewing

Guest: Chris Hall, co-founder of Noxx and Dunn

Guest: Amyad Amra, Director of Sales of Two Drums

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Welcome to Part 2 of our joint interview episode with Ft. Myers Brewing and Wicked Dolphin Distillery! We are back with Jen Whyte and TJ Jewell from Ft. Myers Brewing and Joseph Termini from Wicked Dolphin to talk about Ft. Myers Brewing's Spyk'd hard seltzer, new flavors of Wicked Dolphin rum and their new tiki bar, and everything they were able to do in the community supporting and handling the aftermath of Hurricane Ian in 2022. Listen in...

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Guests: Jen Whyte (Co-Founder) and TJ Jewell (VP of Operations) from Ft. Myers Brewing

Guest: Joseph Termini, Director of Sales and VP, Wicked Dolphin Distillery

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On today's episode, we are doing two interviews at once! Wicked Dolphin has, in the past, made special collaboration series with breweries around the state of Florida. Their current partnership is with Ft. Myers Brewing, who is currently aging a beer in a Wicked Dolphin barrel. But that's not really where the partnership ends, as they both have had similar starts, hiccups, and factors in play in their southwest Florida homes of Ft. Myers and (for Wicked Dolphin) Cape Coral. In this spirit (no pun intended), we sat down with Jen Whyte and TJ Jewell from Ft. Myers Brewing and Joseph Termini from Wicked Dolphin about opening and crafting a following in Lee County, marketing and creating a destination for locals and visitors to come to, and being a trailblazer for the growing craft beer and spirits scene in the area. Listen in...

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Executive Producer: Jaime (“Jemmy”) Legagneur, Chief Enthusiasm Officer

Field Producer/Photographer: Steve Pekala

Editor: Daniel Delgado

Guest: Jen Whyte, Co-Founder and TJ Jewell, VP of Operations Ft. Myers Brewing

Guest: Joseph Termini, Director of Sales and VP, Wicked Dolphin Distillery

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Here is our final episode from Gulf Stream Distilling! Located next door to Gulf Stream Brewing, they are currently in the market with gin and vodka with a number of spirits on the way. We are back with Gulf Stream Brewery co-founder Ty Eriks along with Gulf Stream Distillery Co-Founder Noah Aguilar and Head Distiller Daniel Kastner to chat about Ft. Lauderdale's background in spirits (legal and otherwise), growing a distillery from scratch, and hopefully being able to sell spirits in the Gulf Stream Brewing taproom! Listen in... 

Host: David Butler of the Florida Beer Blog

Executive Producer: Jaime (“Jemmy”) Legagneur, Chief Enthusiasm Officer

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Editor: Daniel Delgado

Guest: Ty Eriks, Gulf Stream Brewery co-founder

Guest: Noah Aguilar, Gulf Stream Distillery Co-Founder

Guest: Daniel Kastner, Gulf Stream Brewing Head Distiller

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Today's episode is really Part 2 of a larger 3 part story arc featuring Gulf Stream Brewing in Ft. Lauderdale! Opening in 2018, Gulf Stream has been serving a steady (and award-winning) line of fantastic beers throughout Broward Co. and beyond. To hear the full story, we spoke to Gulf Stream Brewery co-founder Ty Eriks along with Gulf Stream Distillery Co-Founder Noah Aguilar and Head Distiller Daniel Kastner about craft beer in Ft. Lauderdale, growing a brewery from scratch, and working with the city of Ft. Lauderdale to make an official beer! Listen in...

Host: David Butler of the Florida Beer Blog

Executive Producer: Jaime (“Jemmy”) Legagneur, Chief Enthusiasm Officer

Field Producer/Photographer: Steve Pekala

Editor: Daniel Delgado

Guest: Ty Eriks, Gulf Stream Brewery co-founder

Guest: Noah Aguilar, Gulf Stream Distillery Co-Founder

Guest: Daniel Kastner, Head Distiller

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Today's episode starts in the echoes of ages past from Tulsa, Oklahoma. This is home to the Greenwood District, also known as Black Wall Street, one of the first and most prosperous concentrations of black-owned businesses in turn of the century United States. It is also the inspiration for Greenwood Whiskey, now available through special order in the state of Florida. We spoke to co-founder Kweillin 'KG' Gordon about the historic past of the area, creating and producing a new whiskey label, and the future for this dynamic brand. Plus he reveals a bit about a special expression coming soon... Then we head back to Ft. Lauderdale for a preview of our upcoming series at Gulfstream Brewing. It's also the home of Pizzeria Magaddino, slinging some of the absolute best pizzas in Florida. we spoke to owner Tom Magaddino about his intro to making pizzas, basics of making a great pie and how he makes his a bit differently, and their ongoing pizza classes.  Listen in...

Host: David Butler of the Florida Beer Blog

Executive Producer: Jaime (“Jemmy”) Legagneur, Chief Enthusiasm Officer

Field Producer/Photographer: Steve Pekala

Editor: Daniel Delgado

Guest: Kweillin 'KG' Gordon, Greenwood Whiskey

Guest: Tom Magaddino, Pizzeria Magaddino

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It's time for our big, final episode of Mezcal Lauderdale, the Grand Tasting! Held at Sistrunk Marketplace this year, the Grand Tasting brings together fantastic expressions of Mezcal, Bacanora, Sotol, and more. Some of our past friends, like Xicaru, were there, while there were a good number of new brands represented this year as well. On today's podcast we are going to meet some of those brands. Some of them, like Xicaru, are returning friends to the podcast, while others are brand new to the show. All information will be listed to our show notes for the sake of brevity. And while these notes are short on details, these expressions are much, much bigger on flavor. Listen in...!

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Guest: Dave Simmons, Madre Mezcal

Guest: Oscar, Cardenxe Sotol

Guest: Catalina, Mezcal Mezul

Guest: Dennis Barnett, Xicaru Mezcal

Guest: Danny Zavala, Matasanta

Guest: Marco Mojarro, Otoch

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We continue our annual celebration of all things Mezcal with William Scanlan, founder of Heavy Metl Premium Imports. Heavy Metl is the exclusive importer of several top Mezcal brands such as Real Minero, rey Campero, and Caballito Cerrero. They had what was easily the biggest lineup at this year's Grand Tasting, and we spoke to William about what to expect out of some of the incredible expressions they were able to bring. Listen in...

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Guest: William Scanlan, Heavy Metl Premium Imports

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