Visiting Orlando 2021 Look Here First!

In the past few years the Orlando beer scene has really gown UP. We have quite a few really good breweries in the area now. The list below is complete to my knowledge as of this posting.
Updated with closings and opening during 2021

ORLANDO AREA BREWERIES

Ellipsis Brewing (near Orlando Airport)
Ten10 Brewing of Virginia Ave
Half Barrel Project- I-Drive area
Crooked Can Brewing (Winter Garden)
Redlight Redlight brewery and beer bar
Bowigens Brewing
Hourglass Brewing Longwood and new location Hourglass District off Curry Ford
Broken Strings Brewing
Dead Lizard
Bear & the Peacock
Wolf Branch Brewing
Tactical Brewing
Ivanhoe Park Brewing
Toll Road Brewing (Ocoee)
SunCreek Brewing (Clermont)
RockPit Brewing
Sideward Brewing
Oviedo Brewing
Brew Theory Downtown (by Orange County Brewing) Contract brewing facility
Orange County Brewers Lake Mary
Riverwalk Pizza and Brew Pub (Orange City)
Castle Church Brewing
Clermont Brewing Company
Ravenous Pig Brewing - Awesome beer garden
Central 28 (Debary)
Park Pizza & Brewing company (Lake Nona)
Genetic Brewing, Lake Mary
3 Odd Guys, Apopka
Motor Works Brewing Orlando
Persimmon Hollow Orlando


New breweries opening
Dee's Brothers (Sanford)
Gatling Hall Orlando
Windemere Brewing.

Highly Recommended Beer Bars
Thirsty Topher
World of Beer - Downtown
Rogue Pub
Celery City (52 taps)
GBs Bottle Shop (21 taps)
The Commission Beer Chamber off Curry Ford

Highly Recommended Bottle Shops
Knightly(Orange Blossom Trail location only)
GB's Bottle Shop
Big C Liquor
3 Total Wine locations(check website for stock) Altamonte store has a growler station)
Various ABC locations: (Apopka Vineland store is closest decent beer selection to Disney)
Lake Mary & Winter Park ABC's have growler stations




The Sanford Area has 4 breweries and some great beer bars
Deviant Wolfe Brewing
Sanford Brewing
Wops Hops Brewery
LagerHead Distillery
Central 28 Brewing - in DeBary about a 15 minute drive (well worth it)

Beer Bars and restaurants
Celery City (Best beer bar in the area) 52 taps with huge outside area
Busters Bistro - Belgian inspired food and beer selection
West End (Dive bar with a really good draft selection)
Willow Tree Cafe - Authentic German food, entertainment and Beer.
Tuffys Bottle shop and cidery

Orlando Area BA listings - http://www.beeradvocate.com/place/city/80/

Orlando Beer Map http://www.orlandobeerguide.com/orlando-beer-guide-maps.html


Disney Tips
For those traveling to Disney, many places throughout the parks and resorts now serve craft beer.

Yes variety in the parks is limited. Yes it's expensive to buy beer in the parks or at your hotel.

Yes you can bring your own beer to Disney resort pools.

Thank you Bknarr for doing the leg work for all this time.

UNIVERSAL
Since I know I’ve searched Universal many times, I figured I’d post a specific thread after a short visit this weekend. I will basically post about what I found unique. Yuengling and Blue Moon are all over both parks. I did not search every inch of the place to be sure. You may now be able to find some local FL beers at the parks.

Universal Studios - In Springfield, the Duff brewery offers three beers (I believe all by Florida Beer Co). I only had the regular Duff. It was fine. In Harry Potter World, you will find two unique beers. There is Wizard’s Brew (a very solid sweet leaning stout) and Dragon’s Scale (a mildly hoppy red). There’s a beer cart in NY area across from Starbucks and Louie’s. They have 4 locals including Jai Alai and Orange Blossom Pilsner.

Islands of Adventure - Hogs Head in Harry Potter had the two previously mentioned beers plus a 3rd which was malty offering in the Scottish Ale style (Hog’s Head Brew). To be honest, I didn’t see much else in Islands.

City Walk - Again, here you will find Yuengling and Blue Moon at walk up carts like it is growing in trees. I found the selection at NBC Grill to be vast and certainly worth a look. Clearly the largest selection was here with probably upwards of a hundred cans, bottles and drafts. In general, there was nothing hear that knocked my socks off though. The Cow Fish had a nice, but small selection of craft including about six drafts. Each of these two places had Two Hearted which was probably the best beer at each.
City Works @ Disney Springs seems to carry a lot of local beer.

Stayed at Portofino Bay and I’d say each venue there (pool, bars, restaurants) had one pretty good craft selection (including Jai Alai and Funky Buddha Hop Gun).

 

Bronson Liquors https://bronsonliquors.com/ usually has a great selection and they do growlers.

 

I live in Lake Mary/Heathrow. Be happy to grab a few beers with you.
Not much in Lak Mary... Genetic brewing. its a glorified homebrewer set up. Some of the beer is decent not a place I go to often.
Orange County Brewers/Tin and Taco. Beer is getting much better food is amazing.

There is a tine store in Sanford called Upsala Grocery. They have an outstanding variety of craft beer mostly cans and decent prices too.
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Me and my friends spend alot of time in Downtown Sanford. Deviant Wolf is the best down there. Celery city is one of the best beer bars and patios in Orlando. West End Trading has a great beer selection and EVERYTHING is 2 for 1 until 7 everyday.
New brewery opening in just a few weeks Dees Brothers. Toured the place Sunday. Its gorgeous.

Go ahead and BM me and we can meet up for a beer.

 

A great place to go for what you are asking is Baldwin Park. They have a great sushi/Japanese place Seito Sushi. Killer Ramen and Chirashi. Call for a reservation or go late night.
https://www.seitosushibp.com/
Across the street from them is The Osprey, great mid to high end seafood restaurant. Killer happy hour. https://www.theospreyorlando.com/
And it so happens that one of the best breweries in town is right across the street. Tactical Brewing.
https://www.tacticalbeer.com/

You can find High end restaurants everywhere. Most of them are simply tourist traps.
For steakhouses. Christners damn good. https://christnersprimesteakandlobster.com/ if you go ask for Kevin Popps as your waiter. He will make it that much better.

If you fly in after 1pm hit up Ellipsis Brewing. They are 5 minutes from Orlando Airport. Some of the best hazyies and fruited sours in town, worth the stop.

 

Would love to know where you ended up going this past weekend?

 

glad you enjoyed your meal and Tactical. The canned dates is a big issue where with the independent stores. I think due to the pandemic there is just so much being put into the market.
that is sits.

Cheers