Hobgoblin Mugs Rokkin in Florida Soon

For those who follow some of the great English beers we have available, you may see one popping up everywhere on draft - Hobgoblin.

This Dark English Ale has been haunting Bud-Miller-Coors drinkers for years with his tagline "What's the matter lager boy, afraid you may taste something."  You'll see this handsome mug all over Florida this fall season in bottle and on draft, and you'll see he has some friends coming with him.

In addition to The Goblin in draft and bottles, you'll see some Wychcraft and Scarecrow Organic in bottles as well as some limited draft seasonals of Bountiful, Dogs Bollocks, and Bah Humbug.  The good news is, all of these will be available in Florida.  In addition to the brew being tasty, their artwork is some of the best around.

Beginning in October, Hobgoblin is also going to be doing some promotions that are going to be of particular interest to our glassware collectors (and coffee drinkers).  A limited edition Hobgoblin Mug will be available at select bars and retailers throughout the state of Florida.

The mug itself is very cool.  Appearing in the form of a logo cauldron, they've added the goblin himself hanging on the top and bottom to form a handle. You just pour the draft into the cauldron and wait for the people around you to ask how to get one - and they will.  End of your trip to the bar, you take the goblin home and enjoy the 6-pack of Hobgoblin that you're going to buy at your local liquor store.

Keep your eyes peeled as only a limited amount of bars are going to carry these guys and once they're gone, they are gone.  Cheers!

St. Peters Ale Night at World of Beer in Carrollwood

First, I'd like to thank Mr. Tyler Sankey for hosting us for our first St. Peters Event.  I love this brand and feel it is very under-appreciated in this ever-crowded beer market we are seeing in the state of Florida.  The brew itself is great, the packaging is awesome, and it is a very rounded brand.  I'm very excited to get the chance to help them grow in Florida.

A little about the brewery.  As always, I feel it can be best described by the folks themselves, so here is a little blurb from their website describing who they are:


"The St. Peter’s Brewery company is based at St. Peter, South Elmham, near Bungay in Suffolk. The brewery itself was built in 1996 is housed in an attractive range of traditional former agricultural buildings adjacent to St. Peter’s Hall.



Siting the brewery at St. Peter’s was ideal because of the excellent water quality from our own deep bore-hole. Locally malted barley is used, together with Kentish hops to produce a range of classical English cask-conditioned ales. In addition the company produces a range of superb bottled beers.


We brew 'traditional' beers - bitters, mild etc. - as well as some more unusual beers such as honey porter and fruit beer. (We are replicating what was common practice up to the Nineteenth Century to add fruits and honey to beers to create special seasonal brews.)

Thus blackcurrant and gooseberry beers would be brewed when soft fruits were readily available while at Christmas-time dried fruits, spices and orange peel would be added to ceate a special Christmas Ale.



At St. Peter’s we aim to carry on traditional brewing practices but hope always to have something new and exciting for you to try."




As you can see, this is the type of brewery that you like to imagine in your head when you're pouring a delicious glass of brew and enjoying with friends and family.  

So despite the fact that St. Peters is not the "next new thing," Mr. Tyler asked us to set up something a little different and we got this great event going.

The staff embraced the brand right away and I am very thankful to the folks at World of Beer for carrying the Golden Ale, the IPA, the Old Style Porter, and the Cream Stout.  Tyler also snagged a keg for the event,  and I was able to have St. Peters on draft for the first time!  Additionally, they had traditional English pints to serve the draft in.  This was great!  I was even able to meet one of their most loyal customers who dedicated himself to having the entire line of St. Peters while he was there and I got a great shot of him sitting in front of the empties of these interesting little medicine bottles.  Diggit!

As we were hanging, we also had some of our new brews, Rince Cochon (Cheers Big Ears!) and 3 Monts to sample out and get the folks at WOB to try out.  Rip and I got to hang with Tyler and his brother, enjoy some St. Peters and share around the two that we are also very happy to get out in the market.  This was a great night.  Cheers!