Since the resurgence of independent craft breweries in the late 20th century, Florida’s brewery count has doubled, offering a variety of nationally-known favorites, local staples, and up-and-coming offerings. These breweries throughout the state offer public taprooms, and a variety of public special events for beer lovers to enjoy.
Persimmon Hollow Brewing Co.
Persimmon Hollow Brewing Co. was the vision of homebrewers Andy Sistrunk and Robbie Carelli, who opened the downtown DeLand brewery in 2014. The brewery is located within the city’s hip SoNY neighborhood, which is also home to a variety of arts studios, boutiques, and a regular Friday night open-air market. Core taproom beers include the brewery’s Daytona Dirty Blonde Ale, Beach Hippie IPA, Paddle Wheeler Red Ale, Vacation Wheat American Wheat Ale, and 3 Wise Guys Coffee Porter. Red and white wines are also served at the pet-friendly taproom, which hosts events such as trivia nights and yoga groups. Visitors are welcome to purchase food at the adjacent Neighbors Artisan Taquiera or bring in their own outside food.
Persimmon Hollow Brewing Co, 111 W Georgia Ave, DeLand, FL 32720, Phone: 386-873-7350
7venth Sun Brewing Company
7venth Sun Brewing Company was opened in January of 2012 by Devon Kreps and Justin Stange, former brewers at Atlanta’s Sweetwater Brewery. The brewery offers two taproom locations, one along Dunedin’s waterfront and the other within Tampa’s Seminole Heights neighborhood. The Tampa location offers a larger taproom facility and a 15-barrel brewing system for higher production volume. Year-round offerings at both taprooms include the brewery’s Mangrove Double IPA, Wolfman’s Berliner Weisse, Graffiti Orange American Wheat, Kitty Likes the Milk Stout, and Intergalactic American Pale Ale. Other seasonal and limited release beers emphasize barrel-aged brews, sour ales, saisons, and imperial IPA and stout styles.
7venth Sun Brewing Company, 1012 Broadway, Dunedin, FL 34698, Phone: 727-733-3013
Funky Buddha Brewery
Funky Buddha Brewery is a large Florida brewery with its headquarters in Oakland Park, and is owned by Constellation Brands. The brewery started its life in Boca Raton as a small brewhouse with a hookah lounge and live music.
In 2010, the owners started brewing their own beer and named the brewery Funky Buddha Lounge and Brewery. In 2012, they started using the Cigar City Brewing system and begin distribution. They also opened a home brew supply store at the brewery lounge. Their Boca Raton location has a 55 US gallon brewhouse and a popular taproom. They offer tours of the brewery on weekends. Funky Buddha Brewery is credited as helping to drive the now thriving local craft brewing scene.
Funky Buddha Brewery, 1201 NE 38th Street, Oakland Park, FL 33334, Phone: 954-440-0046
3 Daughters Brewing
3 Daughters Brewing is Florida's largest independent brewery, originally opened in 2014 by married duo Leigh and Mike Harting. As one of the region's fastest-growing craft breweries, the company is known for flagship year-round offering such as its Bimini Twist IPA, Floating Dock Light IPA, Beach Blonde, A Wake Coffee Blonde, and Rod Bender Red Ale. A light menu of bar bites is complemented by creative sandwiches and burgers, including beer-braised bratwursts, smoked pulled pork sandwiches, and vegan pressed mozzarella and avocado sandwiches. The brewery's tasting room is family-friendly, offering a wide variety of bar games, including giant Jenga and Connect Four games. Live music performances are showcased throughout the week, with food trucks parked on site at select times.
3 Daughters Brewing, 222 22nd St S, St. Petersburg, FL 33712, Phone: (727) 495-6002
Coppertail Brewing Co.
Coppertail Brewing Co. has been operating out of Tampa’s Ybor neighborhood since 2014, founded to bring quality locally-brewed beer to the region. The brewery is named after a fictional sea monster created by the brewery owner’s daughter, which is said to reside within Tampa Bay. Its family-friendly and dog-friendly tasting room offers 20 taps and a full wine list, with brewery tours available Thursdays through Sundays. Core beers include the brewery’s Free Dive IPA, Unholy Belgian-American Trippel, Night Swim Robust Porter, and Independent German-style Pilsner. An Alpha Hunt IPA series and a Florida Weisse series also complement the brewery’s standard seasonal releases. A full-service menu is offered at the S&V Kitchen satellite restaurant, featuring small shareable plates and a variety of American entrees.
Coppertail Brewing Co., 2601 E 2nd Ave, Tampa, FL 33605, Phone: 813-247-1500
Cycle Brewing
Cycle Brewing is a bike-themed brewery and taproom in St. Petersburg that replaced the beloved Peg’s Cantina restaurant when it shuttered its doors in 2013. The brewery was opened by Doug Dozark, the son of the former restaurant owners, and is meant to symbolize a shifting of gears for the local institution. It is open seven days a week and offers pints, tastings, and growler fills, with discount sales available on Mondays. Popular brews include the brewery’s Crank American IPA, Cream and Sugar Please Porter, and RareR DOS Imperial Stout. Barrel-aged and imperial specialties emphasize unique ingredients such as coffee, chiles, hazelnut, and cinnamon.
Cycle Brewing, 534 Central Ave, St. Petersburg, FL 33701
Dunedin Brewery
Dunedin Brewery is Florida’s oldest continually-operating microbrewery, established in 1995 by Kandi and Michael Bryant. The brewery is founded on values of community engagement, integrity, and hard work, serving the Tampa Bay region as a major neighborhood gathering place. All of the brewery’s beers are handcrafted in small batches, with some distributed via keg to local bars and restaurants. Popular brews include the brewery’s Apricot Peach Wheat Beer, Flashlight Lager, Pipers Pale Ale, and American Classic IPA, with specialty beers available seasonally, including barrel-aged brews, imperial styles, and fruit-infused concoctions. The brewery’s kitchen serves full-service and late-night menus highlighting Mediterranean and West Coast fare and vegetarian options. Brewery tours are offered Thursdays through Saturdays, and live music performances are showcased several nights a week.
Dunedin Brewery, 937 Douglas Ave, Dunedin, FL 34698, Phone: 727-736-0606
Grayton Beer Company
Grayton Beer Company is an Independent Craft Brewers Association-certified microbrewery that has received major regional awards throughout the Emerald Coast, including the 2017 Best of the Emerald Coast award from Emerald Coast Magazine and the Best in Destin Reader’s Choice Award from VIP Destin Magazine. The brewery was opened in 2011 by Candace and Jamey Price and offers a taproom that is open to the public Mondays through Saturdays, featuring beer tastings, sales, and brewery tours. In addition to the brewery’s initial Fish Whistle IPA and Staff Pale Ale offerings, it brews several year-round offerings today, including its 30A Beach Blonde Ale, White Dunes Belgian-style White, Salt of the Gulf German-style beer, and 30A Rosé Gose. In 2018, the brewery opened a second location, a fully-operational brewpub and restaurant that serves American fare for lunch and dinner.
Grayton Beer Company, 217 Serenoa Rd, Santa Rosa Beach, FL 32459, Phone: 850-231-4786
Green Room Brewing, LLC
Green Room Brewing, LLC is the first microbrewery in Jacksonville Beach, offering a dog-friendly taproom that is open to the public Tuesdays through Sundays. 16 taps showcase the brewery’s locally-crafted ales, made in a variety of styles to accommodate the tastes of novice drinkers and craft beer aficionados alike. The brewery’s seven permanent taps include its Head High IPA, Double Overhead Double IPA, Knee High Session IPA, Count Shakula and Shaka Stouts, Diamond Blonde Ale, and Pablo Beach Pale Ale. Nine rotating taps showcase seasonal favorites such as the brewery’s Scromple Double IPA, Hawking Nitro Milk Stout, Nose Dive Barleywine, and Junkyard Dog American Brown. Pool and ping-pong tables are available in the casual-seating taproom, which showcases live music performances and offers games such as giant Jenga.
Green Room Brewing, LLC, 228 3rd St N, Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250, Phone: 904-201-9283
Hourglass Brewing
Hourglass Brewing was founded in 2012 by two Longwood friends who funded their dream to create a microbrewery with sales of personal toy and musical instrument collections. The brewery crafts world-class brews showcasing both local and international ingredients, striving to create nuanced, highly drinkable flavor profiles. Popular brews include the brewery’s Giant Giant Dward, Cloudberry Farmhouse, and Stormgazer barrel-aged brews within its barrel program and its Sourglass line of foeder-fermented farmhouse ales. Its 240-seat taproom displays works by local artists and offers tabletop and console games, hosting periodic live music and comedy night events. Its patio also offers dog-friendly service.
Hourglass Brewing, 480 S Ronald Reagan Blvd, Suite 1020, Longwood, FL 32750, Phone: 407-262-0056
Idyll Hounds Brewing Company
Idyll Hounds Brewing Company was opened in 2013 and is the Emerald Coast’s premiere flavor-forward brewery, serving unique concoctions overseen by brewmasters Frasier Hansen and Shawn Sherman. The brewery offers a variety of taps at its Santa Rosa Beach taproom, including its popular year-round Divide and Conch’r IPA, Man O’Wheat Unfiltered Wheat Ale, and Ghost Crab Pilsna’. Seasonal offerings include its Idyll House Impervious IPA, Berry Freshbro and Buxom Huxley Sour Ales, and Captain Coconut Imperial Milk Stout. The brewery also showcases several taps of brews by local and national favorites such as Sierra Nevada and New Holland Brewing Companies.
Idyll Hounds Brewing Company, 845 Serenoa Rd, Santa Rosa Beach, FL 32459, Phone: 850-231-1138
Intracoastal Brewing Company
Intracoastal Brewing Company is located within the heart of Melbourne’s Eau Gallie Arts District, offering a continually-rotating menu of handcrafted ale recipes. The brewery’s taproom is open seven days a week, offering picnic table seating and serving flights for tastings of its unique beers. Popular brews include its Dad Made Breakfast Coffee Maple Bacon Stout, Rip Currant Sour Florida Weisse, Cookie Dustier Imperial Amber Ale, and Tropic of Guava Sour Ale. Specialty beers are showcased within its Artist and Coastal Cereal Series, which highlight clever IPA and stout styles. Light fare is served at the brewery’s food truck, including Peruvian-style tacos, ceviche, Hawaiian-style sliders, and a full children’s menu. Weekly public special events include yoga groups, trivia nights, and an Intra Run Club.
Intracoastal Brewing Company, 652 W Eau Gallie Blvd, Melbourne, FL 32935, Phone: 321-872-7395
Intuition Ale Works
Intuition Ale Works was established in Jacksonville in 2010 by local winemaker Ben Davis and specializes in small-batch handcrafted ales in a variety of flavorful and unique styles. The brewery became Florida’s first can-distribution craft brewery in 2012 and opened a new state-of-the-art brewhouse and taproom in the city’s downtown district in 2016. Five core beers are sold by the brewery, including its People’s Pale Ale, Jon Boat Coast Ale, King Street Stout, I-10 IPA, and Easy on the Eyes Session IPA. The brewery’s taproom is open to the public Tuesdays through Sundays and also sells red and white wines and a variety of American dishes prepared by its full-service food counter.
Intuition Ale Works, 929 E Bay St, Jacksonville, FL 32202, Phone: 904-683-7720
Point Ybel Brewing Company
Point Ybel Brewing Company is Fort Myers’ premiere craft brewery, located near Sanibel Island and Fort Myers Beach. The brewery specializes in pale ale and IPA styles, featuring year-round brews such as its Endless Summer Pale Ale, Lateral Line Lager, Causeway Haze New England-style IPA, and Pierre Lafitte American Wild Ale. Its taproom, named Hurricane Hole, is open to the public seven days a week, offering live music performances by regional and national artists, trivia nights, and a variety of happy hour specials. Guest taps from other local and regional craft breweries are also showcased at the taproom, including cider offerings.
Point Ybel Brewing Company, 16120 San Carlos Blvd #4, Fort Myers, FL 33908, Phone: 239-603-6535
Rapp Brewing Company
Rapp Brewing Company is a nanobrewery located in Pinellas County, specializing in small-batch artisanal ales and lagers. The company’s brewmaster, Greg Rapp, is the great-grandson of the owner of a historic Mohrungen, Germany brewery and has been crafting award-winning European-style brews for more than 15 years. The brewery’s 650-square-foot tasting room offers more than 40 taps of its core and seasonal brews, including its Chocolate Peanut Butter Stout, Maple Wheat Bock, Lichtenhainer, and Chocolate Hazelnut Porter styles. Specialty brews explore traditional and modern styles, including lesser-brewed historic European styles. Public special events include beer release parties, food truck pop-ups and live entertainment, including performances by local musicians.
Rapp Brewing Company, 10930 Endeavour Way, Seminole, FL 33777, Phone: 727-544-1752
Riptide Brewing Company
Riptide Brewing Company was the vision of friends Scott Alexander, Bob Menzies, and Norm Scherner, former homebrewers who converted their passion into a small business that opened to the public in November of 2015. The Naples brewery features a 10 barrel brewhouse and fermentation tanks on display in the middle of its taproom facility for guests to view ongoing operations. Approximately a dozen of the brewery’s beers are tapped at any given time, including its Beach Please American Guava Wheat Ale, Drop Anchor IPA, Hochwasser Hefeweizen, Wye Nut Brown, and Anklebuster Amber Ale. Flights are available for purchase, along with to-go and growler sales. Public special events include live music performances, Irish music jam sessions, and Trivia Tuesday events.
Riptide Brewing Company, 987 3rd Ave N, Naples, FL 34102, Phone: 239-228-6533
Swamp Head Brewery
Swamp Head Brewery was founded in 2008 and creates a variety of world-class brews in its environmentally-friendly brewery, which is noted as a carbon-neutral facility that focuses on domestic sourcing and reuse policies. The brewery’s taproom is open to the public Tuesdays through Sundays, with brewery tours available on select days for groups of 15 or less. Five taps are dedicated to the brewery’s year-round beers, including its Wild Night Honey Cream Ale, Cottonmouth Belgian Witbier, Stump Knocker Pale Ale, Midnight Oil Coffee Stout, and Big Nose IPA. Seasonal offerings also include brews such as its Hydroslide Dry-Hopped Kolsch, Day Trippin’ Session IPA, and Hoggetowne Irish Red Ale. Growler fills and to-go sales are offered, along with a variety of public special events, including Taco Tuesday nights and periodic themed parties.
Swamp Head Brewery, 3650 SW 42 Ave, Gainesville, FL 32608, Phone: 352-505-3035
Veterans United Craft Brewery
Veterans United Craft Brewery was opened by former Naval Flight Officer Ron Gamble and his wife Sheryl in 2013, crafting throwback-styled beers honoring the nation’s finest military personnel. The Jacksonville brewery is committed to making a positive impact on its local community and creating a welcoming gathering place at its brewhouse and taproom, which hosts public special events such as trivia nights, comedy performances, and live music sets. Year-round brews include its award-winning Raging Blonde Ale, Hopbanshee IPA, Scout Dog 44 Amber Ale, and Buzzin’ Bee Honey Rye Wheat Ale. A variety of seasonal and limited-release beers are also offered, showcasing holiday-themed flavors and smoked and imperial varieties.
Veterans United Craft Brewery, 8999 Western Way #104, Jacksonville, FL 32256, Phone: 904-253-3326
Wynwood Brewing Company
Wynwood Brewing Company is Miami’s first craft brewery, located within its diverse and eclectic Wynwood Art District. The family-owned brewery emphasizes its commitment to its local community’s Puerto Rican heritage, partnering with local charities and partner businesses in its daily operations. It strives to create a work of art in every glass with beers such as its Pop’s Porter Robust Porter, La Rubia Blonde Ale, Wynwood IPA, Lock On Dry-Hopped Lager, and Father Francisco Belgian-style Golden Ale. Seasonal and limited offerings focus on Belgian and German styles, including barrel-aged and experimental variants. Food trucks are available on a rotating pop-up basis, and a monthly pop-up art gallery showcases the works of local artisans.
Wynwood Brewing Company, 565 NW 24th St, Miami, FL 33127, Phone: 305-982-8732
