FBC TBBW Pairings Dinner at The Epicurean Hotel

This years Tampa Bay Beer Week promises to be the best yet! In its third year the quality of events has risen from a standard pint night, to full on brewing demonstrations, Style variety courses, to even our own beer blogging summit. The 2014 TBBW definitely shows how far the Florida craft beer scene has come in such a short amount of years.

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Our events this year dabble from higher end to just good old plain fun. One event that stands our for us and shows how craft beer is starting to be taken seriously in the fine dining world, is our beer dinner at the illustrious Epicurean Hotel. Recently opened this hotel, owned in partnership with Marriott and Bern’s Steakhouse, is a food and drink lovers paradise. Epicurean means “Devoted to the pursuit of sensual pleasure, especially to the enjoyment of good food and comfort” and this hotel exudes this very definition in every aspect.

137 rooms each lavishly thought out for maximum comfort, the amazing restaurant, rooftop bar, wine store, pastry shop, culinary classroom, banquet room, pool and spa. This place has pulled out all the stops for the perfect boutique hotel for the imbibing soul.

Our dinner features a beer tasting and food pairings 101 in the Epicurean theater followed by a 6 course meal in the main ballroom, paired and infused with out FBC favorites! We will also be featuring our brand new limited release Florida Sweet Stout and our 321 White IPA.

Here is a preview of the menu *Subject to change at chef’s digression

Florida Beer Dinner

$85.00 reception and dinner

Passed Reception

321 White IPA

Loup de mer ‘A La Greque’ – hop oil, crispy artichoke

Seated Courses

Southernmost Wheat

Peeky Toe Crab Crusted Flounder- apple, screwpine emulsion

Florida Lager

Wild Boar Bratwurst ‘en Croute’ -rye, violet mustard, sorghum

Devil’s Triangle IPA

Tuna Korma- cashew, sweet spices, carrot

Swamp Ape DIPA

Lightly Cured Duck Breast -apricot terrine, honey, lambic

Sweet Stout

Rogue River Blue- plum, preserved walnut, poppy-seed biscotti

Gaspar’s Porter

Espresso Brioche French Toast – Nutella ice cream

For more information and reservations go to: http://www.epicureantheatre.com/

Join us throughout Tampa Bay Beer Week at our other events!

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FBC “Blasts Off” with Two New Brews!

As we get settled into our new home in Cape Canaveral, we have been busy coming with some new brew ideas for our amazing FBC fans. With our brand new state of the art brew house, our new brew staff and our expanded fermentation space, we have room to play and come up with some fun and exciting styles for the new year. Our two new brews out the gate are: 321 White IPA and Florida Sweet Stout.

To commemorate our move to the Cape and our newly refurbished buildings past, we decided to make 321 White IPA. Coming in at 6% ABV,  this brew combines an American-Style Indian Pale Ale with an American-Style Wheat Beer. This beer features refreshing floral aromas, herbaceous hop notes, delightful undertones of orange and grapefruit combined with mellow malt body and a subtle smoothness imparted by the un-malted wheat. Let your taste buds blast off with this new addition to the FBC family, available now til May on draft at your favorite craft beer tap-room.

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The next new beer is a part of our limited release series. This series will focus on unique styles of beers that are either insanely hopped, clean classics or anything barrel aged or imperial.  Our first release  in this series  is our Florida Sweet Stout, coming in at 4.3%. This highly “sessionable” and full flavor brew is  a full-bodied stout which incorporates lactose and sugar additions throughout the process in order to achieve a smooth light residual sweetness on the palate. The addition of chocolate malt produces a strong chocolate, darkened fruit aspect during tasting and also lends to the near pitch black color. There is a light hop addition to round out the brew. This beer is fermented with lager yeast producing a non-existent ester profile which can be found in other stouts. This beer will finish dry and clean and not too heavy. Available on draft ONLY for a limited time.

These new brews show the new direction that FBC is going. We are making an array of styles that are unique, not made here locally and are at a higher production quality, due to our state of the art brewhouse. We will be releasing a calendar of our releases very soon! So look for these two new brews at you local craft tap houses!

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