Biscayne Bay Brewing Company 8000 NW 25 Street, Suite 500 Miami, FL 33122 Tickets: $6
Twenty-five years into running one of the top craft breweries in America, Brooklyn Brewery co-founder Steve Hindy looks back with his fellow craft beer comrades to discuss what allowed a handful of individuals across the country to challenge one of the largest corporate dynasties in American history. Steve's new book, The Craft Beer Revolution, tells the story of groundbreaking breweries & how they fundamentally… Show more changed humanity's favorite beverage.
Steve joins us on The Mash to discuss his book & the beer scenes of each city we visit with the people who helped create it. In Miami, that includes Jonathan Wakefield Brewing Company (founder Jonathan Wakefield), Abbey Brewing Company (Founder and Brewmaster Raymond Rigazio) Biscayne Brewery (Co-Founder Jose Mallea), Miami Brewing Company (Owner Peter Schnebly), & Saltwater Brewery (Head Brewer Dustin Jeffers).
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The $6 ticket price includes a complimentary beer, plus samples from each of the breweries of the beer they're most excited about
A seven-year veteran of homebrewing, Dustin Jeffers is Co-Founder and Head Brewer at SaltWater Brewery, a Delray Beach, FL craft brewery and tasting room. The brewery opened in December 2013, and Dustin, along with the other co-founders and brewers, designed and manufactured the company’s inaugural solid base beers. Since then, he has expanded upon the base beers, adding treatments and flavors to create new and exciting brews.
Raymond Rigazio founded the Abbey Brewing Company on Miami Beach Florida, in 1995. Mr. Rigazio was involved in advertising and video production in New York for several years, but his real passion was brewing. In the summer of1994, Mr. Rigazio threw a farewell party, which included 90 gallons of homemade beer for his guests, packed up his car, and drove to Miami Beach, in pursuit of his dream. In a year’s time, Mr. Rigazio secured a location on Miami Beach, and a Brewery near Key West, to craft his libations. The Abbey has expanded since the beginning, and Mr. Rigazio now crafts his beers in Cape Canaveral Florida, but the vibe, and strict attention to detail and quality, has remained intact.
Steve Hindy ( co-Founder, Chairman and President of The Brooklyn Brewery ) founded one of America’s top 25 breweries. A former journalist, he became interested in home-brewing while serving as a Beirut-based Middle East Correspondent for The Associated Press. Back in the states as Newsday’s assistant foreign editor in 1988, he began brewing his own beer and persuaded his neighbor, banker Tom Potter,to start a brewery. Hindy is a member of the Board of Directors of the Beer Institute and The Brewers Association. He is a director of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Alliance, chairman of the Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn, former chair of Brooklyn’s Tourism Consortium and a former member of Community Board 1. Hindy also serves on the Board of Transportation Alternatives and the Alcohol Beverage Manufacturer’s Research Foundation. With Potter, Hindy co-authored Beer School: Bottling Success at the Brooklyn Brewery, Forward by NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, published by John Wiley & Sons. His second book, The Craft Beer Revolution: How A Band Of Microbrewers Are Transforming The World’s Favorite Drink was released in the spring of 2014.
Evan S. Benn is the food editor of the Miami Herald and restaurants editor of its entertainment website, Miami.com . He also writes about beer and food for Esquire, Businessweek, BeerAdvocate and other publications. Benn moved to St. Louis in 2009, where he served as food critic and beer columnist for the Post-Dispatch. It was during that time, in the aftermath of Anheuser-Busch's takeover by Belgian-Brazilian conglomerate InBev, that craft breweries sprouted up throughout the city. Benn covered the craft beer renaissance in the newspaper, online, through a smartphone app he helped develop, and in a book he wrote, "Brew in the Lou: St. Louis' Beer Culture Past, Present & Future." An accomplished cook, Benn had a regular cooking-with-beer segment on St. Louis television, and he won a Chopped-style TV competition. He and his wife returned in 2013 to Miami, where Benn rejoined the Herald and soon became food editor. He produces two food-focused Tropical Life sections a week for the paper, and he also has a weekly craft beer column and web-based beer show called Brew in Miami.
The Craft Beer Revolution Reviews
“The craft beer revolution, the most exciting development in the beer industry since the birth of lager beer in the 19th Century, now has its chronicler. Steve Hindy tells the story as only a skilled journalist and an important player in the revolution could tell it. For decades going forward, this will be an important book for those who want to understand this transformative business story.” - Daniel Bradford, Publisher, All About Beer magazine
“Steve’s position in the craft industry puts him in a unique position—he both grew alongside it as an owner of Brooklyn Brewery and helped steer its course as an active Brewers Association member. He very accurately depicts the craft revolution’s highs and lows and the camaraderie, challenging to maintain at times, that underlies it all.” - Ken Grossman, Co-founder and CEO, Sierra Nevada
“Balance. It's a desired trait in the brewing world. That perfectly comforting zone created through the interplay of hops and barley. Steve Hindy has found the equivalent space as a beer-journalist-slash-brewing-pioneer in his book The Craft Beer Revolution. Combining entertaining doses of craft brewing history with approachable descriptions of the brewers art and the fearless exploration of these entrepreneurs who changed the face of American brewing. A delicious and session-able read.” - Sam Calagione, Founder & President, Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
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