Breweries banking on Tampa Bay Beer Week for much-needed business
TAMPA, Fla. - Eighty breweries throughout Tampa Bay are participating in Tampa Bay Beer Week, which runs March 6 through 14. Typically the event would draw at least 1,000 people, but, due to the pandemic, it’s being held on a smaller scale.
Breweries will still have things like brewing competitions, tastings, and special beer releases. Now more than ever it s important to visit your local craft brewery, visit your local eatery, spend some money, get the capital flowing, said Ethan Tsai, the general manager of brewing operations at the Cigar City Brewing Company. In the year of COVID, craft beer contracted massively, depending on where you live, contraction was as high as 25 to 30 percent of the breweries, just gone, just vaporized.
Beer Battle: Breweries in KC, Tampa Bay make 2021 Super Bowl bet
Kansas City Bier Company and Cigar City Brewing will brew special beer depending on who wins Sunday. Share Updated: 5:31 PM CST Feb 4, 2021
Kansas City Bier Company and Cigar City Brewing will brew special beer depending on who wins Sunday. Share Updated: 5:31 PM CST Feb 4, 2021
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Show Transcript THE BREWERIES’ CONNECTION AND WHY EVERYONE WINS IN THE END. EMILY: BOTTLES AT KANSAS CITY BIER COMPANY WILL FILLED WITH SOMETHING SPECIAL AFTER SUPER BOWL SUNDAY. THE WHOLE BREWING STAFF HERE IS KIND OF TALKING ABOUT IT. EMILY: HEAD BREWER KARLTON GRAHAM MADE A BET WITH A BREWERY IN TAMPA. RECONNECTING WITH A FRIEND HE MET STUDYING BREWING IN GERMANY. ONE OF THE PEOPLE THAT I WENT TO SCHOOL WITH BACK THEN IS NOW HEAD OF PRODUCTION AT CIGAR CITY BREWING COMPANY IN TAMPA BAY FLORIDA. EMILY: IF THE BUCS WIN, KC BIER CO HAS TO BREW AN IMPERIAL STOUT, WHICH GOES AGAINST THE