LONGWOOD, Florida – The seventh annual Florida SMaSH Beer Competition will function 35 breweries serving single malt, single hop beers made with Riverbend Malt and Yakima High quality Hops tapping Saturday, January 28 at Reiter Park.
Introduced by the Brewers Establishing Altruistic Regional Growth (B.E.A.R.D.) nonprofit group, Hourglass Brewing, and the Metropolis of Longwood, the Florida SMaSH Beer Competition was created to have a good time the creativity and camaraderie of breweries within the Sunshine State. Collaborating breweries will craft beers made with Riverbend Chesapeake Pilsner malt and Yakima High quality Hops YQH-1320.
“Riverbend is honored and excited to be the malt number of SMaSH Fest this yr,” says Riverbend Malt Home’s Georgia, Florida, and Alabama Territory Supervisor Tyler Adams. “This can be a probability to style how Southeastern malt actually shines by in beer, and a celebration of the completely different flavors that Florida breweries have to supply.”
The successful beer is chosen by the attendees who vote on the S.M.a.S.H. beer that impresses them probably the most. The winner will obtain the coveted, ever-evolving Florida SMaSH Competition Champions Lamp. Every winner takes this trophy residence till the subsequent SMaSH beer competition and garnishes it with their very own additions every year.
Additionally throughout the competition, a Choose’s Alternative competitors will happen to award first, second, and third place medals.
This yr’s Florida SMaSH Beer Competition proceeds can be donated to A Spoonful of Hope, Second Harvest Meals Financial institution’s signature product line. 100% of the proceeds immediately assist Second Harvest’s no-cost 16-week Culinary Coaching program, which offers certified, economically challenged adults with the culinary and life expertise coaching to pursue a sustainable profession within the meals business.
“Florida SMaSH Beer Competition has the power to indicate you the way the identical elements dont all the time imply the identical interpretation of a beer,” says Invoice Murphy of Hourglass Brewing. “It’s additionally an effective way to see what the state as an entire can convey to the desk. The perfect half is, all of it comes again to the neighborhood.”
ABOUT B.E.A.R.D.
Brewers Establishing Altruistic Regional Growth (B.E.A.R.D.) is a non-profit group created by brewing business professionals with a mission to serve their communities. Over 7 years, B.E.A.R.D. has efficiently donated greater than $45,000 to native charitable organizations corresponding to A Spoon Stuffed with Hope.
ABOUT HOURGLASS BREWING
Hourglass Brewing is now serving their tenth yr, producing Seminole County’s first small batch craft beer. With two areas within the Orlando space and at least 30 beers on faucet they frequently push for innovation whereas holding on to nostalgia, with a thirst for good occasions.
ABOUT RIVERBEND MALT HOUSE
Riverbend Malt Home is on a quest to attach Southeastern household owned farms and fermenters. Co-Founders Brent Manning and Brian Simpson launched Riverbend, the primary craft malt home east of the Mississippi River, in Asheville, North Carolina in 2010. Buoyed by a 70,000 sq. foot manufacturing facility and state-of-the-art gear, Riverbend Malt Home helps breweries and distilleries giant, small, and in-between stand out with taste, locality, and neighborhood in an more and more aggressive panorama— all of the whereas difficult the established order of company, big-agriculture malt.
ABOUT YAKIMA QUALITY HOPS
YQH is a family-owned enterprise centered on high quality and repair. Based in 2013, Yakima High quality Hops offers the best high quality hops to breweries all through the USA and overseas. Based mostly in Yakima, WA, we work immediately with growers, permitting us to supply the perfect pricing and high quality management. We work with breweries of all sizes and in all phases of progress. Whether or not you’ve been brewing for many years or are simply getting began, let’s join so we are able to get to know your hops wants.
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