Baby Steps & Little Giant Leaps

Hello Folks, 

How is that brew you are sipping on? I hope it's scrumdiddlyumptious. My spelling may be way off there.  

Just to give you an update, we were unanimously approved by the City of Bradenton Planning Commission to move forward with our site plan.  That's a great thing! We now present ourselves in June to the City Council of Bradenton for final approval and then things start rolling fast(pending approval of the council, of course). If you've sampled Little Giant and liked it or if you just like the idea of a beer Mecca in Bradenton, cross your fingers for us -- or do something equally superstitious like light a candle made with spent brewer's grain or hang a wreath of hops above your door so the beer gods recognize your intent.  Regardless, send good vibes our way and as always -- we thank you.

Read all about it:
http://www.bradenton.com/2013/05/16/4527548/little-giant-brewery-okd-in-bradenton.html

Florida Brewers Guild Festival & Musings.

Hey there, Folks! It's been too long...

This weekend is the beginning of something huge, Tampa Bay Beer Week(www.Tampabaybeerweek.com)! I believe the number of craft beer-related events taking place is around 250?! Awesome!

It all starts this weekend with one of my favorite events of the year, The Florida Brewers Guild Festival. It's the only place where all the Florida Brewers Guild breweries get together for a great & epic afternoon of imbibing and inevitable weirdness. The event takes place Saturday, March 2 from 2-6pm at Centennial Park in Ybor City. Centennial Park is just a couple blocks east of the normal venue and should offer a little more room for everybody.

Little Giant will be there with a few frothy selections of exceptional quality: Billabock Maibock, Overlord Black IPA, and Overhead Peeler Porter. 

Come on down if you have the chance, more info at Floridabrewersguild.org.

IN OTHER, ULTIMATELY MORE IMPORTANT NEWS, 

The LittleGiant Brewery Has A Permanent Home! 

Having wandered the earth for what seems like generations we have settled into a 5700 square foot building that is aching to be rehabilitated from a school for wayward youth(coincidentally, I used to teach there) into a beer salon for confused & wayward adults(Oh wow! I get to teach about beer now!). 

Stay tuned as we progress, and feel free to bring a wrecking bar over.

The building of this brewery has been a journey for sure, both personal and professional, and I'm happy that you all are along for the ride. This brewery has got soul, baby!

Come up to Ybor tomorrow and drink beer!

WAZOO!

Oh wow, the Wazoo beerfest fundraiser at The Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa is expected to serve frothy libations to 5,ooo beer lovers this Saturday August 4th.  Proceeds support the zoo which is kind of a hidden gem of Tampa. 


The best part of Wazoo? The Little Giant Brewery will be pouring four of our artisanal selections for your pleasure.  


The lineup: BillaBock! Maibock, OverHead Peeler Porter, Mischievous Intent American-Belgo Pale, and Overlord Black IPA. Oh yeah I almost forgot, The Mischievous will be on hand-pulled dry-hopped cask. 


This Fest was named by USA Today a Top Ten American Beer Festival, so get there and have some fun with Little Giant! In fact, have a lot of fun-- almost too much for mortal beer lovers to mentally comprehend.


If you follow us on twitter @littlegiantbrew or Facebook just look for my tweet and check-in for the location of our table. GPS is a wonderful thing at a crazy wonderfully big BEERFEST!!!!!!


Details:
http://www.lowryparkzoo.com/wazoo/


Mahalo

Bradenton's Little Giant Brewery makes cover of BeerAdvocate magazine | Alan Shaw | Ticket Sarasota

Bradenton's Little Giant Brewery makes cover of BeerAdvocate magazine | Alan Shaw | Ticket Sarasota

Hey there! Come celebrate American Craft Beer Week with us Saturday, May 19th at the St. Petersburg Craft Beer & Food Truck Festival in the Grand Central District. Pouring starts at 1PM and goes on for a thirst-quenching 5 hours. Find more info at http://craftbeerexpo.org/ And, as always, don't forget who your friends are!

Hey There Beer Lovers

It's been a busy month of March in the neighborhood. Pittsburgh Pirates spring training has added a whole ton of excitement for sure. It kind of breaks my heart to sit in the stands drinking our friends at Yuengling's beer while The Little Giant Brewery is about 50 steps and a seven-foot wall away. Who knows what the future may bring though, the Craft Beer revolution may sweep over McKechnie Field soon enough.  Until then we can only hope.

Your brewer has been spending some quality time on the curb parking cars and spreading the Word of good beer to all passers-by.  Kind of fun, actually.  Pouting off missives about that wonderful frothy beverage that we all enjoy. Next spring will prove to be Too Much Fun at the brewery once we add some fan-friendly renovations.  Bringing together baseball and some good craft beer seems like a very natural thing to do.

Did I mention when we are going to open the doors? Seems like a popular and rhetorical question these days.  We're aiming for a mid-summer opening. As we all know, good things take time...

If you're in the neighborhood for a baseball game or just passing through make sure to pop in and check out our progress -- it's an ever-evolving brewery. If the door is open walk right in and make yourself known with a big shout out of "Little Giant Brewery Oye, Oye, Oye!!!" You'll be sure to get some service that way, indeed!

A little panorama of your soon to be neighborhood brewery

So things are moving along at our little Brewery-In-Planning.  As you can see we are cozy neighbors with the spring home of the Pittsburgh Pirates, McKechnie Field.  Planned opening will be at the end of May if everything goes as planned. Until then, feel free to swing by and check out our progress -- late afternoons are usually best!  800 17th Avenue West Bradenton, FL 34205.