A second Florida Brewery surpasses Annheuser Busch in monthly retail sales. Monthly Highlights Only one new brewery is included in this edition of The Florida Brewery Report. Winery and tasting room Two Lions Winery, in Dunedin, is now a licensed brewpub as well. In October 2014, the total number of reporting breweries stands at 129. Of those, 108 breweries...
Continue ReadingHow do Florida breweries’ retail sales compare to sales of all beer in Florida? The answer in September’s Florida Breweries Report. Monthly Highlights We introduce a new table in this report: a comparison of the Florida brewers’ taxpaid sales compared to taxpaid sales of all beer in Florida. A whopping 9 new breweries are included in this edition of...
Continue ReadingThree new breweries in August’s Florida Breweries Report. Monthly Highlights Three new breweries are included in this edition of The Florida Breweries Report: LauderAle in Ft. Lauderdale, Burkes of Ireland in Crystal River, and Momentum Brewhouse in Bonita Springs. Three breweries drop off The Florida Breweries Report, because they are no longer licensed to manufacturer beer: Marco Island Brewery,...
Continue ReadingFour new breweries in this Florida Breweries Report, and annual sales growth is up again. Notes about this edition of The Florida Breweries Report This edition of The Florida Breweries Report reflects information about each brewery’s reported retail sale, as reflected on the ABT’s monthly wholesale reports for July 2014, the most recent information available. Actually, the numbers reported...
Continue ReadingEight new breweries and a completely new table in this Florida Breweries Report. Notes about this edition of The Florida Breweries Report This edition of The Florida Breweries Report reflects information about each brewery’s reported retail sales, as reflected on the ABT’s monthly wholesale reports for June 2014, the most recent information available. That’s not entirely true. According to...
Continue ReadingIt’s Christmas in July! A second Florida Breweries Report this month. Notes about The Florida Breweries Report The Florida Breweries Report reflects information about each brewery’s reported retail sales, as reflected on the ABT’s monthly wholesale reports for May 2014, the most recent information available. Full production and sales numbers (both retail and wholesale, for production breweries) are not...
Continue ReadingBrewpubs are breweries too, right? We think so. Even though the Floria ABT separates its reporting on the retail sales by Florida production breweries (CMB license) and Florida brewpubs (CMBP license), we don’t have to. For the first time, Florida breweries and brewpubs are all together in The Florida Breweries Report.
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