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Freshcraft is a bar/restaurant that has a serious beer bend. Friendly and knowledgable staff guides you through your choices.

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Considered the best beer bar in town. Impressive beer list, liquor and food.

Denver visit

Visiting some breweries while in Denver, this was a must stop for me as I really enjoy their brews.

Brewery Tour

Tour of Funky Buddha Brewery compliments of World Of Beer Dadeland staff, good history of the company and primer of the brewing process. Tours available daily, Taproom open 12-12 everyday.

Sports Grill South Miami

Sports Grill is a sports bar chain in Miami-Dade famous for its burgers, wings and good times. Their South Miami location boasts a good line up of craft beer on tap as well as in bottles, liquor and wine are also served. This night they sponsored a Funky Buddha tap takeover.

Funky Buddha

The Funky Buddha Lounge has an extra location, the Funky Buddha Brewery and Taproom is now open in Oakland Park. Complex houses their brewing area and a spacious taproom, offering multiple taps of their own as well as a few guest taps. Limited growler service is available, 32 and 128 ounce only.

Double/Imperial IPA Comparison

  Two solid IPA's, Great Divide's Hercules Double IPA and Dogfish Head's 90 minute IPA. Both widely available in 12 ounce bottles.

  Both pour a dark tan, russet color with the DFH a shade darker. The nose of both gives that hop character but less than you might expect for these two flagships. Both also give that hop sharpness on the front of the tongue, but mid mouth a malt character is present. At 10.0 and 9% ABV respectively they both drink smoothly belying the alcohol content.

  Overall these two stack up as great examples of heavy hitting IPA's, the DFH in my opinion is just a little bit more balanced. To be fair, both of these were from 2012 bottling, almost a year old in the bottle. However, I think this shows the ability to cellar bold IPA's. a "freshness" freak might not agree, but to each his/her own. 

World Of Beer-Dadeland

In Downtown Dadeland nestled between the Dadeland Mall and the Dadeland Metrorail Station is World Of Beer-Dadeland a beer bar chain started in Tampa boasting 40+ branches and growing. They specialize in craft beer, no food but BWOF is encouraged and area takeout menus are available. 50 taps and 500 bottles, rotating regularly. Loyalty Card program offers great deals.

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As the Craft Beer Industry starts to grow and blossom here in SoFla, I have decided to share with everyone...