Brasky.org officials found themselves in a unique spot this week. Brasky is offering Tampa denizens an exciting PREVIEW of a well-hyped upcoming show… The Mountain Goats, the indie superstars behind one of the most emboldened and passionate acts in music today, have shows in Central Florida on back to back nights. Brasky staff attended the show in Orlando on Tuesday night and are fully prepared to simultaneously discuss the proceedings and TOTALLY SPOIL the Wednesday night show in Tampa. Read on if you dare…
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Brasky.org received this urgent message from local beer heroes Southern Brewing and Winemaking this evening:
The Tampa City Council will be voting on our zoning requests for the new store location, (4500 N. Nebraska Ave.), this Thursday, June 9 at 6:00 in the City Council Chambers, located on the 3rd floor of City Hall, 306 E. Jackson St. Aside from a parking waiver, we have requested zoning allowing us to sell beer, wine and liquor on premise and to go. Our vision behind this is to open a small brewery and winery to compliment our homebrewing and winemaking shop, which will use half of the building. Wine and beer making hobbyists can experience the whole range of the craft by observing a professional brewing and winemaking operation, tasting artisanal beers and wine, interacting with the brewer and winemaker and shopping for equipment and supplies, all under one roof.
Our hopes are also to contribute to the revitalization of Seminole Heights by giving our newly purchased building a face lift and further establishing the neighborhood as a destination point for craft beer and wine enthusiasts.
So please show your support by attending the meeting or by sending an email to the Council members below. And if you are able to support us by attending the meeting, please join us at Tampa Bay Brewing Company afterwards for some great beer and wine.
BRSKY wants to see your magnanimous emails to the elected officials below:
Mike Suarez
mike.suarez@tampagov.net
Charlie Miranda
charlie.miranda@tampagov.net
Mary Mulhern
mary.mulhern@tampagov.net
Harry Cohen
harry.cohen@tampagov.net
Yvonne Yolie Capin
yvonne.capin@tampagov.net
Frank Reddick
frank.reddick@tampagov.net
Lisa Montelione
lisa.montelione@tampagov.net
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In light of the upcoming Craft Beer Week, we here at Brasky are looking to shine a light on how to correctly enjoy the fruits of fermentation in the Tampa Bay area. So, in volume 1 of our new series ‘Go Here, Drink This’, we decided to showcase some of Tampa’s finest music venues. As Brasky knows firsthand, drinks at major venues are typically overpriced and underwhelming. They’re usually clear, yellow, overfizzed and nine dollars a pop, sometimes citing a ‘souvenir’ cup as incentive to overpay. Every cup is a souvenir cup if you take the damn thing home with you!
Luckily for you, it turns out that some music venues in the Tampa Bay area do strive to promise tasty and affordable brews for the nuanced imbiber. Brasky knows that there are times when a show that piques one’s interest may teeter on the brink of your attendance, requiring some intangible last push to get you out to see live music you may live to regret missing. For most of us here at Brasky, beer is that glorious shove. Each venue below gives an idea of the venue’s vibe, and of course, a GO-TO BREW to enjoy during your next visit.
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Jesse Thelonious Vance is a musician and promoter in the Tampa Bay area who is here to school you on Tampa’s growing experimental music and visual art scenes.
synesthesia syn·es·the·sia (sĭn’ĭs-thē’zhə)
n.
- A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color.
Now, some of us may have experienced synesthesia by eating mushrooms and getting crazy at a jam-rock concert. On December 4th, the word will take on a new and much more tangible meaning to me.
Earlier this year, an artist by the name of Leah Renee Pecoraro contacted me asking me to be a part of an art show she was putting together. In said show, each artist will be provided with a shadowbox (a sort of “blank canvas”) and be paired with a musician. Each musician will give their artist an original recording and the visual artist will, in turn, create their own visual interpretation of the song. Leah asked me to be her musician.
So, on December 4th at Silver Meteor Gallery (2213 E. 6th Ave. Tampa, FL 33605), I will be seeing my own song with my eyes for the very first time, and I hope you will all be there hearing and seeing it with me.
Proceeds from the event are going to the H.E.P. Charity and Silver Meteor Gallery.
Press Release
Ybor City – On Saturday, Dec. 4th, 2010, Silver Meteor Gallery, in
association with the Aesthetic House collective, is proud to present:
Fused
a benefit for the Homeless Emergency Project
This exhibition will embody the connectedness between aural and visual
art forms. Participating musicians will give a copy of one piece of
original music to their visual artist partners; the visual artist
will, in turn, create an interpretation of the audio piece. During the
show, the audience will experience the fusion of the pieces by viewing
the visual artwork while listening to the song.
Participating Musicians & Artists are: Matt Eddy & Jeff Walenta,
Annette Marie Emmanuelli & Mark Castle, Yoko Nagami & Jason Bundy,
Leah Renee Pecoraro & Jesse Thelonius Vance, Lysander Dawson &
Christopher Costabile, Jeremy Gloff & Mike Leffler, Ima P$ynner and
Angela Dickerson & Don Butler, Jay Doubledutch Stolz & Jerry Cahill,
Maciek Klosinski & Brian Berry, Carlos Culbertson & Rebekah Pulley and
Rob Pastore.
The exhibition runs from Saturday, Dec. 4th, to Sunday, Dec. 19th, 2010.
Opening Reception: Saturday, December 4th, from 8 to 11PM. Admission
is $2.00. Proceeds will benefit H.E.P. Charity and SMG. Refreshments
will be available.
Closing party: Sunday, Dec. 19th from 6 to 9PM. Free.
Other hours by appointment.
Silver Meteor Gallery is located at: 2213 E 6th Ave, between 22nd and
23rd Streets, in Ybor City.
For more information, contact:
Michael A. Murphy 813-300-3585
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Eat beer.
As we’ve
mentioned before, Cigar City Brewing is widely considered the best thing going in Florida craft beer. With one of their beers,
Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout, regarded as one of the 10 best in the
world by BeerAdvocate.com, it’s not difficult to argue Cigar City’s growing value to the city of Tampa. The increasing prestige and cult popularity of Cigar City’s beer does not appear to be fully understood by Tampa City Council representatives, however.
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This representation of Tampa, Florida was spotted at MegaCon 2010 in Orlando earlier this month.
Looks right to me.
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Florida is characterized by beer distributors and wholesalers as ‘a light lager crowd’, or a major-brand-preferring consumer base, much the same as the general beer-drinking populace of North America. Although a ‘light lager’ is just the sort of brew meant to be enjoyed while lazing on the beach or pounding em back at a college party, what are Floridian beer snobs expected to do? There are many reasons for this barren beer landscape: Florida has a heterogenous mixture of transplant residents with no strong preference for any particular variant of tasty brew, it has the general lack of unique local restaurant chains that could be tempted to serve craft brews (Outback steakhouse and Hooter’s both started in the Tampa Bay area), and a dearth of local craft brewers. Luckily for Floridians, that last driver for the formation of a ‘light lager crowd’ is beginning to fall apart. Craft breweries are starting up all across the sunshine state (there’s a list at the bottom!), and some are producing downright sensational products. One in particular, Cigar City Brewing, is stepping up to the Craft Brew microphone and making a lot of noise.
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