AB opening brewpub in Miami.

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  1. pjbear05

    pjbear05 Pundit (806) May 28, 2008 Florida

    There's enough beer places in Wynwood without this lot:

    http://www.southflorida.com/restaur...ng-miami-anheuser-busch-a-20170427-story.html

    Veza Sur, South Florida’s first brewery to be funded by beer giant Anheuser-Busch InBev, will debut this June in Wynwood.

    The beer kingpin’s 10,000-square-foot brew house will include a 15-barrel brewing system, a 5,000-square-foot taproom and a terrace with patio seating and a garden.

    The brewery will become Wynwood’s fourth, after J. Wakefield, Wynwood Brewing and Concrete Beach. The project came together through Jeremy and Chris Cox, co-founders of 10 Barrel Brewing Company in Bend, Ore. During a business trip to South America, where they absorbed Colombia’s and Brazil’s food-and-drink cultures, the pair met Berny Silberwasser, who heads Bogota Beer Company in Colombia. Silberwasser told them he wanted to launch a Miami brewery, and the resulting collaboration, Veza Sur, is a salute to its South American roots. (Anheuser-Busch owns both 10 Barrel and Bogota breweries.)

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    The Anheuser-Busch-funded Veza Sur Brewing Company tapped Bogota Beer Company in Colombia and 10 Barrel Brewing Company in Oregon, pictured above, to help launch the new brewery in Miami. (10 Barrel Brewing Company / Courtesy)
    “Miami is the capital of Latin America in the United States, which is exactly why we chose it as our home,” Silberwasser says in a press release.



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    A spokeswoman for Veza Sur says the co-founders declined to speak with SouthFlorida.com before the brewery’s opening.

    Details are scarce on how much Anheuser-Busch InBev is investing in the project — the spokeswoman also declined to say — but the company has tapped head brewer Asbjorn Gerlach, the German-born founder of Kross Brewery in Chile, to create Veza Sur’s beer lineup.

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    The new Veza Sur Brewing Company is under construction now in Wynwood, with an anticipated opening in June. (Veza Sur Brewing Company / Courtesy)
    Along with guest Miami beers, eight brews will be offered to start, including pale and dark lagers, which will be served chopp-style, a Brazilian method of serving ice-cold lager in small glasses with an extra foamy head. Veza Sur will also offer a low-alcohol-by-volume India Pale Ale; a hoppier India Pale Ale; a Belgian witbier; a red ale; a coffee-flavored porter; and a Berliner Weisse, a cloudy, sour beer punched with guava. Veza Sur will also serve micheladas, a Mexican cocktail made with beer, lime juice, spices and peppers.

    Veza Sur is Anheuser-Busch InBev’s second Florida brewery, after the company’s Jacksonville outpost.

    Veza Sur Brewing Company will open June 2017 at 55 NW 25th St., in Miami. For more information, go to VezaSur.com.
     
  2. CaptainFleeker

    CaptainFleeker Initiate (0) Aug 27, 2012 Illinois
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    I think Veza Sur is a good thing. Their spin on beers sounds like it'll fit in well and this brings even more local jobs to Wynwood. Say what you will about Wakefield but he's created a lot of jobs and had a very positive, significant financial impact on Wynwood. And as far as I've read he's a great community partner. If you'd ask him I'm sure he's welcoming new breweries to the area regardless of ownership.
     
  3. gnartothecore

    gnartothecore Initiate (0) Feb 4, 2015 Florida

    It sounds like they might have been better off setting up in Doral, rather than trying to squeeze themselves into Wynwood.
     
  4. VurnXBrew

    VurnXBrew Initiate (0) Apr 7, 2017 Florida

    Expecting a bunch of tourist friendly, true to style ales and light lagers with no local atmosphere. The taproom will be nice, the beer will be bland, and the names will be latin :slight_frown:
     
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  5. jcb7472

    jcb7472 Initiate (0) Jul 13, 2011 Florida

    I hope it fails miserably and closes after 3 months
     
  6. Blazer06

    Blazer06 Initiate (0) Jun 30, 2008 Florida

    Florida breweries can have 8 brewery licenses to sell beer out of. That means 6 more left for them to open after this one.
     
  7. djben

    djben Devotee (317) Sep 4, 2013 Florida

    Bingo.

    Also, people don't go to Wynwood for "Latin". They largely go to Wynwood for it's atypical lack of Miami Latin-ness.

    In any case, the money pumped into this project is a drop in the bucket for InBev and it won't matter how successful it is, it will stay open for a long time to come.
     
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