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Tampa Bay Brewing Company is one of Florida’s first & premier Craft Breweries. TBBC opened at the tail end of the last "Micro-Brew" Boom. Our philosophy then and now is simple: Brew beer we love to drink! Thank goodness there were plenty of like-minded people around to support our endeavor. Today, TBBC thrives within the incredible brewing community of Tampa, Florida which was once just a two brewery town...we were lonely back then! We currently operate an Ybor Brewpub and a Production Brewery in the northern part of Tampa. We are organically growing distribution with the end goal of being a Florida only brand with a driving vision of Beer Crafted for the Florida Lifestyle. Cheers!
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mcberko (49191) reviewed
Hop Silo #25 from Tampa Bay Brewing Co.
1 year ago
5.9/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 5.5
On tap at TBBC, pours a clear golden blonde with a small white head. Aroma is quite bitter, with bitter dry-hopping, some sweaty earthiness, and bready malt. Flavour has dry, overused hops, sweatiness, and toasted bready malt. Balance is okay but the hop expression is pretty weak. Meh.
Tried from Draft on 21 Oct 2024 at 04:54
mcberko (49191) reviewed
Spaghetti Model from Tampa Bay Brewing Co.
1 year ago
6.1/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
On tap at TBBC, pours a clear blonde with a small white head. Aroma has subdued earthy hops, light pine, and bready malt. Flavour is much the same, with washed out hops, bready malt, and a touch of cardboard. Hops are somewhat washed out. Decent.
Tried from Draft on 21 Oct 2024 at 04:53
mcberko (49191) reviewed
Apps in Use from Tampa Bay Brewing Co.
1 year ago
7/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
On tap at TBBC, pours a clear amber with a small off-white head. Aroma has plenty of resinous hops, caramel, and bready malts. Flavour is much the same, with bitter resinous hops, toasted caramel, and bready malt. Bitter, resinous, and malty without the sweetness. Good stuff, though a bit too malty for my taste.
Tried from Draft on 21 Oct 2024 at 04:52
mcberko (49191) reviewed
Coral Head from Tampa Bay Brewing Co.
1 year ago
6.6/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
On tap at TBBC, pours a clear pale golden with a small white head. Aroma has notes of melon, subtle tank hops, and toasted biscuity malt. Flavour is very bitter, with lots of bittering hops, pine, citrus and a thin malt base. Bitter and clean finish. Solid.
Tried from Draft on 21 Oct 2024 at 04:51
mcberko (49191) reviewed
Porch Swing from Tampa Bay Brewing Co.
1 year ago
5.8/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 5
On tap at TBBC, pours a cloudy bright pink, no head. Aroma is huge on the cucumber and watermelon, with a lacto-y base. Flavour is full of watermelon upfront, followed cucumber; but it's all fermented out in the awkwardest of ways. Comes across vegetal and herbal. Doesn't work.
Tried from Draft on 21 Oct 2024 at 04:49
mcberko (49191) reviewed
You Bitter Plonker from Tampa Bay Brewing Co.
1 year ago
5.4/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 5.5
On tap at TBBC, pours a clear amber with a small white head. Aroma has a nice English malt character, with butterscotch and subdued hops. Flavour is much the same, with bready malt and toasted butterscotch. Doesn't taste remotely like an English bitter, even adjusting for the non-casting. Not terrible but just not on-point whatsoever.
Tried from Draft on 21 Oct 2024 at 04:48
mcberko (49191) reviewed
Red Eye (Redeye) Amber Ale from Tampa Bay Brewing Co.
1 year ago
5.9/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 5.5
On tap at TBBC, pours a clear amber with a small beige head. Aroma brings out bready malt and a hint of toasted caramel — very low hop content. Flavour is dry, with clean toasted bready malt, not much else. It's clean enough but not very highly hopped nor interesting in any other way. Meh.
Tried from Draft on 21 Oct 2024 at 04:47
cheap (9783) reviewed
Reef Donkey from Tampa Bay Brewing Co.
1 year ago
4.4/10 — Appearance 4 Aroma 6 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 3.5
Big pounder can. Pour is an ever so slight haze on pale. Head is nice but goes into pond scum mode after a few minutes. Nose is plain fresh and ale-like; some hints of citrus, just maybe. Yes, from the start its yer typical APA; not really bitter like an IPA, so its pretty much on style. Nice to find an APA that's not been bastardized by the IPA fad. Session is even keel and, simply just an amberjack, maybe one of the toughest pound-for-pound fighters in the ocean. Not sure if this really deserves the amberjack name, because its not quite a rich, buttery flavor, nor a taste mix between tuna and mahi-mahi, though not as steak-like as tuna and not as mild as mahi-mahi. However, it does seem hold up well to almost any APA brew, and can go nicely with the actual broiling, baking, grilling, pan frying or smoking of a real AJ. JMHO. There, you have it.
Tried from Can on 17 Oct 2024 at 21:23
explosivedog (14048) reviewed
Porch Swing from Tampa Bay Brewing Co.
2 years ago
6.4/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
On tap at the brewery. Pours clear straw. Watermelon, bread and butter pickles, butter, brioche, cucumber water. Medium body. Fine.
Tried from Draft on 18 Aug 2024 at 01:47
explosivedog (14048) reviewed
Tropical Depression from Tampa Bay Brewing Co.
2 years ago
5.9/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
On tap at the brewery. Pours hazy yellow. Straw, lemon, pineapple, papaya, grass, herbal bitter stuff. Medium body. Not great.
Tried from Draft on 18 Aug 2024 at 01:44