Beer Bites: Oblivion, Legends and Snooki

Happy Halloween Weekend, Florida craft beer lovers!

With Oktoberfest season winding down and lots of folks bopping about to parties this weekend, the Beer in Florida calendar is relatively lean.

I’ve done my best to dig up the news, though, for readers both old and new.

On with Beer Bites.

Drinking to Oblivion

Oblivion Taproom, which touts itself as “Orlando’s Weirdest Bar & Grill,” has been open a few weeks on Colonial Drive. Oblivion just posted its tap list on the website, and it sounds like a great place to hang out, enjoy some craft beer from its 40 taps or its bottle cooler and munch on some of the made-to-order items on its menu. Its skull-and-crossbones logo seems appropriately spooky for this weekend, too.

Legendary

From our good friend Alan Shaw, the Beer Geek at Ticket Sarasota, comes the news that Legends Sports Pub has jumped on the craft beer bandwagon and will be offering tastier brews. The folks there aren’t fooling around about it either: a keg of Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA was reportedly tapped to celebrate the expanded beer menu. The good news for Florida craft beer fans is that Legends is part of Linksters Management Group, which also owns the Linksters Tap Room brand and others spread through west central Florida; perhaps the expanded beer offerings will be a chainwide movement.

When is a Ranch Not a Ranch?

When it’s Lakewood Ranch, the master-planned community east of Bradenton in Manatee County. It’s holding its inaugural International Beer Festival on Saturday from 4 to 8 p.m. Details here.

Mow Beer!

Owners of Florida’s newest brewery, Barley Mow Brewing Co.  in Largo, hoped to have the doors open today, but according to its Facebook page, the “nanobrewery and tavern” won’t make that goal.  They expect to be open “early next week.”

That’s it for this week’s Beer Bites. Beware of zombies, vampires, giant beer bottles and Snookis, especially if they’ve had too much to drink.

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Until next time, Florida, remember: We are Here! We are Beer!

 

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