Visiting Orlando- Look Here First!!

Apparently the other thread was closed for some reason. So here it goes again.

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.


ORLANDO AREA BREWERIES

Ellipsis Brewing (near Orlando Airport)
Ten10 Brewing
Red Cypress
Half Barrel Project
Crooked Can Brewing (Winter Garden)
Cask & Larder (Great Food)
Redlight Redlight brewery and beer bar
Bowigens Brewing
Hourglass Brewing
Broken Strings /Black Cauldron
Ocean Sun
Deadly Sins
Dead Lizard
Orange County Brewers Downtown
Bear & the Peacock
Wolf Branch Brewing
Tactical Brewing
Ivanhoe Park Brewing
Toll Road Brewing
SunCreek Brewing (Clermont)
RockPit Brewing


New breweries opening
Oviedo Brewing
Brew Theory Downtown (by Orange County Brewing)
Orange County Brewers Lake Mary
Blue Springs Brewing (Orange City)
Castle Church Brewing
RockPit Brewing
Clermont Brewing Company



Highly Recommended Beer Bars
Tap & Grind
Thirsty Topher
World of Beer - 2 locations (check WOB app for map and tap lists)
Brass Tap - Multiple locations
Rogue Pub
Celery City (52 taps)
GBs Bottle Shop (21 taps)

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

(A Few) Beer-Centric Restaurants

Cask & Larder
The Smiling Bison
Gnarly Barley
Market on Magnolia (formerly Frank & Steins)


The Sanford Area has 4 breweries and some great beer bars
Deviant Wolfe
Sanford Brewing (Great food)
Wops Hops Brewery
Inner compass Brewing
Central 28 Brewing - in DeBary about a 15 minute drive (well worth it)
A distillery (Lagerhead) and a 5th brewery are opening hopefully by the end of the year or early 2019


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.
Smiling Bison great food with a decent selection of local beer.

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.

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).

Link to first Thread
https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/visiting-orlando-look-here-first-summer-2018.579404/

 

Just found out a new brewery in the works for Downtown Orlando area
Sideward Brewing Co.

 

Castle Church Brewing will have its Grand opening on Dec 1.
6820 Hoffner Ave, Orlando, FL 32822

 

A great beer fest was just announced for Dec 8th at Ten10
CenterMost point beer invitational



CENTERMOST POINT INVITATIONAL BEER FESTIVAL·
The Centermost Point Invitational is Orlando Florida’s latest beer festival presented by What Ales Ya Podcast and Ten10 Brewing Co. Brian Quain and Horus Andersen are inviting close to 20 breweries from outside of Orlando (surrounding cities and out of state) with over 60 rare and new beers to be sampled. Quain and Horus are planning this festival for attendees to meet and greet brewers, owners, taproom managers, event coordinators, the ones who make the breweries thrive, and not going through distributors. The heart of the What Ales Ya Podcast is to educate and inform the listeners by interviewing the breweries and the passion of the craft in this beer industry.

 

Thanks.
There is also a new place in Lake Nona almost ready to open
Park Pizza and Brewing.

 

Tactical Brewing is now in Soft opening phase. Friday and Saturday hours only.

 

Sanford is a great little downtown for a night out. Best beer options are Deviant Wolfe Brewing, Celery City craft beer bar (great selection of FL beers) Hollerbachs Willow Tree Cafe is the best German food in Orlando. All 3 of those are within a few blocks of each other.

Sanford is my Hood, if you would like to meet for a beer just BM me. I can bring a bottle or two to open.
Gene

 

http://dovecoteorlando.com/ is in the BOA building great food. Also a Foxtail coffee bar right there. the Petrakis's from Revenous Pig (Cask & Larder is just the beer now) are partners here.

http://www.therustyspoon.com This place is amazing




For less formal... King Boa on Mills is awesome... little taco like Boa buns.
Taco Cheena,
Black Rooster Taqueria.
http://bethsburgerbar.com/ great burgers
Market on Magnolia. Great food hall, pizza, wings, Poke, Sandwiches. Great beer selection.

For beer and food--- Tap and Grind... great taps and Poke
Ten10 Brewing on Virginia (beer and pub fare)


I am sure I missed a bunch of great places. These are my favorites when I venture from Sanford.

When will you be in town?

 

ooo forgot about Santiagos... great food Also Orlando Meats next door. Great burger.

 

Wow, I guess Jason wants to move back to Hawaii permanently.
I know this was just side gig for him. I am surprised he did not try to sell the business. From what I hear his rent is cheap. He just spent all that money on the poke side too.
Now the beers are expensive, but hey he is downtown.