Indie Rock group Sleepy Vikings will be celebrating the release of their much-anticipated debut album, “They Will Find You Here” (New Granada) at Crowbar on April 30th. This is an exciting event for the self-described “sleazy Tampanians”, who were recently featured on the cover of Creative Loafing and on Metacritic’s Upcoming Album Release Calendar. Learn more about what they’ve been up to on their web site, and be sure to support them on Kickstarter.
R.S.V.P. to the CD Release Party
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UPDATE: New Events Added!
American Craft Beer Week takes place from May 16th to 22nd. If you’re in Florida, here’s where you should be during this fine event.
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Monday
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Cigar City Brewing will be hosting a Craft Beer Scavenger Hunt, which will be on-going throughout the week starting on Monday the 16th.
Cigar City Brewing
3924 W. Spruce St., Tampa, Florida, 33607
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Monday
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Each day will feature the tapping of two small (1/6 – 1/4) exclusive kegs.
BrewGrrs
390 21st Street Unit 104, Vero Beach, Florida, 32960
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May
16
Monday
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Mead tasting and cider specials starting at 7pm.
Independent
5016 N Florida Ave., Tampa, FL 33603
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May
17
Tuesday
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Swamp Head Brewery will be putting their beer on tap at the Cigar City Tasting Room.
Cigar City Tasting Room
3924 West Spruce Street Suite A, Tampa, Florida, 32607
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May
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Pepin Distributing is hosting the 1st annual Brews with Attitude Craft Beer Fest on May 17th, featuring Live Music, Food Concessions and home brewing demonstrations. Tickets are $20 in advance, with over 100 craft brews on tap. Our friends at Southern Brewing and Winemaking will be helping out with a homebrew contest… stop by the shop to pick up entry forms.
Pepin Distributing Tasting Room
4121 N. 50th Street Tampa FL 33610
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May
18
Wednesday
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Cigar City will be putting their beer on tap at the Swamp Head Brewery Tasting Room.
Swamp Head Brewery Tasting Room
3140 S.W. 42nd WAY, Gainesville, Florida, 32608
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May
18
Wednesday
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American highly-hopped beer specials: Pale Ales, IPAs, and DIPAs.
Independent
5016 N Florida Ave., Tampa, FL 33603
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May
18
Wednesday
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Cigar City Brewing will roll out the popcorn maker and host a Beer Movie Night! Enjoy a line up of both informative and entertaining movies devoted to our favorite topic, BEER!
Cigar City Brewing Tasting Room
3924 W. Spruce St., Tampa, Florida, 33607
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May
19
Thursday
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Stop by Cigar City Brewing for a cheese and chocolate pairing event. Taste the beers from our own brewery and perhaps a few others paired with a selection of cheeses and chocolate all made by artisan producers. The tasting will take place in the tasting room beginning at 5:00 and going until 8:00.
Cigar City Brewing Tasting Room
3924 W. Spruce St., Tampa, Florida, 33607
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May
19
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Craft beer week in Florida enjoys some Northern exposure! Try many award-winning brews from this distinguished craft brewery from Lakewood, NY on Thursday. Pint and Flight specials all night starting at 7PM.
Tampa Tap Room
13150 N Dale Mabry Hwy, Tampa, Florida, 33618
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May
20
Friday
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Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena
300 A. Philip Randolph Boulevard, Jacksonville, Florida, 32202
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May
20
Friday
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Ever want to try your hand at brewing? Here’s your chance! Come out to Cigar City Brewing and brew with Ben Romano, our pilot brewer. Ben will guide you through making a batch of beer as part of our pilot series for the tasting room. Time is to be announced, however, we will likely be starting in the morning and the brew day generally lasts about 6 – 8 hours. Space for this day will be limited, so if you are interested in attending email Travis to reserve your spot at travis@cigarcitybrewing.com.
Cigar City Brewing Tasting Room
3924 W. Spruce St., Tampa, Florida, 33607
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Swamp Head will celebrate the release of its 100th batch of beer on May 20th, 100 days after it was brewed. This Imperial IPA, who’s roots came from our popular 10-10-10, got it’s name from the use of all centennial hops, 10 different hop editions and all multiples of 10 or 100 in all ingredients in the brewing process.
Swamp Head Tasting Room
3140 S.W. 42nd WAY, Gainesville, Florida, 32608
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May
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Saturday
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Cigar City Brewing is excited to release a very special beer we have been working on, Nielsbohrium, which is part of the collaboration we brewed with Mikkeller back in December. This Imperial Sweet Stout brewed with raisins has been resting in rum barrels for months and has just been bottled and will be ready to go just in time to be part of our celebration. More details on the release to follow, but the bottles will be available and it will make a very special, limited appearance on tap.
Cigar City Brewing Tasting Room
3924 W. Spruce St., Tampa, Florida, 33607
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Cigar City Brewing is excited to release a very special beer we have been working on, Nielsbohrium, which is part of the collaboration we brewed with
Mikkeller back in December. This Imperial Sweet Stout brewed with raisins has been resting in rum barrels for months and has just been bottled and will be ready to go just in time to be part of our celebration. More details on the release to follow, but the bottles will be available and it will make a very special, limited appearance on tap.
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This is not Animal Collective.
On July 7th, Orlando’s Beacham Theatre will host the return of Animal Collective to the U.S., following a 13-stop European tour.
Included on the US tour will be the return of 4th member Deakin to complement a lineup that boasts 3 artists who have kept busy with successful solo projects (Panda Bear, Avey Tare, and Geologist).
New US Dates
7-7 Orlando FL – The Beacham Theatre
7-8 Alpharetta GA – Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
7-9 Columbia MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion (yes it’s real-first show hosted)
7-12 Brooklyn NY – Prospect Park
7-13 Millvale PA – Mr Smalls Theatre
7-15 Chicago IL – Pitchfork Music Festival
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At the end of 2009, we included the work of Nicholas Bohac (San Francisco) among our featured art of the year:
“Mountain of Sound is an acrylic, ink, and photographic collage that depicts rainbow highways that run alongside windmills and mountains…this mixed media painting is among the most striking, masculine works that I encountered in 2009. Other paintings by Bohac that I appreciate include Kansas, A Place Between Progress & Hippie Shift, and Trippin Off the Land.”
If you also like his work, you’ll be excited to learn that his most recent project for an upcoming exhibit, Nothing & Everything at Once, will include 165 new paintings.
The paintings are all 9″x9″ collaged paintings that I’m calling “The Fragment Series”. They took about two months to make, but I typically worked on them like I was in a factory setting. The idea was to fill space with these images that were all unique, but all had this fractal quality to them. They’re all Icebergs, painting on film, and collaged on the panel. All of the panels have a painted sky, and over the top of the icebergs I have a graphic image of water silkscreen on clear film, so you can just make out the iceberg under the water. Here are all 165. Might take a few seconds to load. This is the first time in a long time that I can’t say that any one painting in a body of work is my favorite. I actually love all this work and fell it all works very well together. – Nicholas
The exhibit opens on April 29th and the formal artist takes place on May 7th.
You can also catch a sneak peak of a (60″x90″) painting , Hummingbird Wars, that will be used as album art for Back When:
When Nicholas isn’t busy painting, he clears his mind by running and sleeping. How could he find the time for anything else?
I really like going for longer runs, but have had to keep my runs to around 45 minutes or an hour. Between shipping the last of this work off and flying out for the show on the 20th, I plan on going on a few runs from my place up to and over the Golden Gate Bridge, which works out to about a half marathon. I’ve also got tickets for a baseball game next week, and depending on when the A’s are playing over in Oakland, I might go see a few of their games. So sleep, running, baseball games, and just mostly relaxing.
We should probably point out that creating 165 paintings in two months is very Brasky – but you probably already knew that.
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