Just picked up a 4 pack of West Coast IPA & a bomber of Double Stout from the Plantation Total Wine yesterday! Can't believe we can now get this in FL- great stuff. I heard Goose Island is next, and Tap 42 will be getting some kegs.
It's strange how long it's taken to show up in different places around the state. We've had it over in Tampa for many months. Take a look here: http://beeradvocate.com/community/threads/green-flash-in-florida.37698/ Rayon Vert has been one of my favorites so far...
Yup, we get a fair amount of Ballast Point stuff over here. The variability of distribution of out-of-state breweries in FL rarely makes any sense...
I have been picking up both Green Flash and Ballast Point beers everytime I was up in Tampa in the last I would say two years or so. Green Flash is finally making its way down, was able to have some of them on tap at Abraxas and everything was great, so glad that GF is now all over FL. As for Ballast Point, does anybody have a clue if it's going to be distributed everywhere as well? I have only seen some Ballast Point in Miami in some Crown Wine stores but the bottles are always old - nobody wants to get an old Sculpin.
To my knowledge, they should be finishing their full FL expansion soon, since they just added like 8 monster fermenters at the brewery. Edit: No idea on the time table, however.
Yeah I got some west coast IPA last night actually. Pretty damn good, looking forward to trying their other beers. Had their saison too...meh
No Ballast Point here on the Space Coast, but drive 40 miles south to Vero and I can get it, what sense does that make?
Yea green flash has been around for quite a while and then disappeared for a bit. St Pete is seeing a lot more of them now, as well as the jolly pumpkin distro. Hopefully GI and FW are next.
Can't wait on the poss BCBS. what d, ya know?? .....picked up some double stout and west coast IPA in Plantation myself! Sweet. Cheers!
Just enjoyed a Le Freak last night. Awesome!! Also nice to see Bear Republic here in FL. Engine 15 in Jax Beach has about 4 of their brews on tap. YUM!!
