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Clearwater’s own Sea Dog Brewing Co. today announced the release of its new beer under its sister company’s label – Shipyard’s Florida Brewed Blood Orange – a Belgian style Wit created by Master Brewer Bobby Baker. The brewery will be holding a release party Thursday, April 7 from 3 p.m – 10 p.m., for those beer aficionados who love trying the latest and greatest local brews.
PORTLAND, ME — Sea Dog Brewing Company’s customer favorite, Sea Dog Sunfish, is now available nationwide in bottles and on draft. Until now, this refreshing session beer has only been available at Sea Dog and Shipyard Brewing Company brew pubs in Maine and Florida.
Shipyard and Sea Dog Brewing Companies have made an exciting and important distribution change in the state of Florida.
CLEARWATER, Fla. — Today at 7:00 pm the public is invited to the Sea Dog Brewing Company in Bangor, Maine or Clearwater, Florida to toast Florida’s first Sea Dog with a live Skype simultoast between the locations.
CLEARWATER, FL — Sea Dog Brewing Company has announced its grand opening date of Thursday, April 10th for its new 20-barrel brewing system. This 20-barrel system hails from the Shipyard Brewport which used to operate at the Orlando International Airport as the world’s first airport microbrewery.
Startup money was an issue. “Back then, there weren’t a lot of breweries in the country, so bankers really didn’t understand our potential model,” Forsley says. “There were only a few in New England.
The solution appeared in his mailbox one day: Credit cards. “At the time, with the application, they’d send you 12 checks,” Forsley chuckles. “If you qualified, you could just open an account by paying off other credit card debt.
“And at the time in those early days, there was a lot of bad craft beer starting to come out, which really hurt the industry. But we were lucky to have consistent quality products. We were able to grow rapidly.”
Forsley, who enjoys snow skiing (almost) as much as he enjoys a good beer, makes his home in Portland – but Florida has a very special place in this New Englander’s heart.
Fred Forsley didn’t set out to become the Beer King of Maine. It just sort of happened that way.