Mike Loves Beer

This Thursday the Coffee District along with Fresh Beer will be presenting Cigar City Night with special guest owner/founder Joey Redner.  There will be Cigar City beers on tap all night along with some special goodies that Joey is bringing down with him.  Those would be

• Puppy’s Breath Porter
• Tocobaga Red
• Sea Bass (Black saison made with St. Somewhere’s yeast)

There may even be some other special treats as well.  You may not know if you don’t come out.

Things start out at 6:30 and go until 10.  So head down to the Coffee District on Thursday night to meet an awesome person who is helping bring craft beer attention to Florida and enjoy some of their beers.

It is the morning after and last night was an absolute success.  I’m still in shock over how many people actually showed up to show some love to craft beer and my little ol’ beer blog.  It really showed that the community is getting bigger.

I know I gave a little drunken speech last night but just want to throw some more thanks out there for my 2 years of doing this thing.

• My parents who are the best parents a person can have.  I started this whole thing while still living with them.  I took up space in their refrigerator with a large amount of beers and they didn’t complain.
• The rest of my family (brother, aunts, uncles, cousins) for understanding that I don’t drink be just to get drunk but that I really enjoy the work put into them.
• Fresh Beer for bringing awesome beer to South Florida and for just being amazing beer people in general.
• The great beer bars down here that do what they do so well like Coffee District, Funky Buddha, the Lodge, Brother Tuckers, Abraxas, Fat Cats, etc.
• All my fellow bloggers that make this community strong.
• All my friends that supported me through this whole thing.
• And most importantly any and all of you that stop by and read this.  I only ever thought that this would be something for me to record what I drink and maybe have friends and family look at it.  I never thought I would be getting over 1000 unique hits a month on this.

But I hope everyone had a good time last night.  I saw so many old faces and new ones.  I was given many a bottles of beer and I thank you for those.  Thanks to Chung from the Coffee District for allowing me to put this on.  I know neither of us expected that kind of turn out.

Well again thanks all and hope you aren’t feeling to bad today (Phil) and go have a beer with your dads.  Or have one for them if you aren’t able to.  Cheers!

So we are a little more than 24 hours away from the MikeLovesBeer.com 2nd Anniversary Party at the Coffee District tomorrow.  So get yourself ready for a great night tomorrow.  Just a run down of some of the happenings.

• The shindig starts at 6 pm EST (Just in case).  I know that may be early to start but we wanted to get a couple hours in before the open mic night starts.  We will continue going through the whole thing and pretty much stop when everyone just can’t go any longer.
• There is a free raffle to where I will be drawing winners for one of five free tickets to Total Wine in Boynton Beach’s next beer class on Thursday June 24th.  Tickets will be available and just ask your bartender for one.  We will announce the winners around 9 pm EST (Again).
• Two awesome Dogfish Head brews will be thrown on tap on Saturday night.  First being the summer seasonal Festina Peche and the second is the always amazing 90 Minute IPA.
• Chung is allowing us to bring in outside bottles of brews that are not available in this area to share with the group and he is not charging any corking fees so please if you are bringing bottles make sure you tip the awesome staff there amazingly.  Melinda and AJ are great folks and they deserve your respect.  Take care of them and they will take care of you (professionally of course).

I look forward to the night and it should be loads of fun.  I already have over 20 people confirming with me that they are coming so it will be a blast.  I’m also working on a little speech to give during the open mic night.  Maybe I’ll be McKenna’d by then and you will all get a laugh at my expense.