Black Flamingo Brewing Company Celebrates Oakland Park Opening

Some of you may be wondering what is the difference between craft beers and regular beer? Regular beers are beers made in corporate breweries, usually with non-traditional ingredients. Craft beers are beers made with traditional ingredients in small batches. They have richer and more distinct tastes than mass production beer. In South Florida Craft beers […]

Yeasty Brews Artisanal Beers: Making a Name for Itself

Yeasty Brews is located just outside of Oakland Park, in the neighboring district of Lauderhill. This brewery is a first for the city. It is part of the City of Lauderhill’s Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) and Economic Development initiative to create a Commercial Arts and Entertainment District on NW 38th Avenue. This initiative includes over […]

Alex Passakos: A Man Destined for the Night Life

When one has been in the world and career of hospitality for as long as Alex Passakos has been, a few pretty impressive things are bound to happen. Like getting restaurant dishes named after him, or even his own beer! Originally from the home of the Buffalo Bills, Buffalo, New York, Alex came to South […]

Fat Tap’s Art of the Craft – Series Two: Stouts and Porters

NOTICE :Fat Tap Beer Bar and Eatery has closed. For Fat Tap’s second Art of the Craft series, we were invited to take a trip to the dark side. This time, joining cicerone Gary Fuller again, we explored the beloved craft beer style stouts and porters. The class started with a history of stouts and […]

Future of the Craft: Fat Tap Beer Bar and Eatery Promotes Beer Series

Fat Tap’s new series, Future of the Craft, kicked off its first series which was all about IPA’s. For non-craft beer drinkers, IPA stands for India Pale Ale. Legend has it that back in the 1700’s England had a large colonial presence in India and an even larger appetite for beer. The voyage to India […]