Description
Spring is in the air! What better way to celebrate than by sipping on local brews? Join Creative Loafing and more than 15 local breweries at The Coliseum in St. Pete for a 1950s rock & roll themed celebration of all things hoppy!
General Admission includes 16 beer sampling tickets. VIP Admission includes 20 beer sampling tickets, plus on extra hour of sampling and complimentary appetizers by Pipo's.
One ticket gets a 3-ounce taste and 4 tickets will earn a full 12-ounce pour. Extra drink tickets will be available for purchase for $1 each. There will also be live music and delicious food available to purchase from local vendors.
Local Craft Beer:
Cigar City Brewing - Jai Alai IPA & Table Saison Farmhouse
Cigar City Cider and Mead - Dry Hop Fight the Powe & Peaches N Cream
Tampa Bay Brewing Company - Reef Donkey APA & Old Elephant Foot IPA
Three Palms Brewing - High Five Floridaweisse & Hot Schtuff Stout
Rapp Brewing Company - Gose & Berlinerweisse
Coppertail Brewing Co. - Unholy Tripel & Nightswim Porter
Two Henrys Brewing Company - 7 Mile Bridge IPA & Gilded Age Lager
St. Pete Brewing Company - Evacuation Route ESB & Orange Wheat
Pair O' Dice Brewing Company - Stick Man DIPA & Hop Bet Red IPA
Cigar City Brewpub - Spider Wars Session IPA & Fratres Arvales Beire de Mars
The Brew Bus Tampa Bay - Rollin Dirty & You're My Boy Blue
Rock Brothers Brewing - High Road Ale & JJ Greys Nare Sugar Brown
Darwin Brewing Company - Pirata Pilsner & Circa 1926 Tangarine Wheat
Jdub's Brewing Company - Smoke Chunk & Poolside Kolsch
Mad Beach Craft Brewing Company - Kalypso Cider (Key Lime) & HMB Stout
*Tap list subject to change.
Local Food:
Sho Gud Barbeque
California Tacos
Queen of Sheba
Local Music:
The Woolly Bushmen
Little Sheba and the Shamans
Local Vendors:
Sunshine Canning
Hopcloth
Hifi Homebrew and BBQ Supply
Toasted Barely featuring PicoBrew
Local Activities:
makeme studio
Premier Photo Booths of Tampa
Jim's Harley-Davidson "JumpStart" demos
Ladies of Local Craft Beer panel:
Leslie Shore of Darwin Brewing Company
Nikki Caro of Tampa Bay Beer Week
Lisa Colburn of Bay Area Barley's Angels
Cindy Lyons of Southern Brewing & Winemaking
Taylor Katz of Cultured & Craft
House of Homebrewing:
Q&A featuring Robb Larson & Lisa Colburn of HiFi Homebrew and BBQ Supply
Be there or be square. #SpringHops2015
*Programming and participants subject to change. Event takes place rain or shine.