So a lot of people have been writing me on here and on facebook asking how they can help Cigar City save the tasting room besides calling, emailing, and writing the City Council of Tampa.
Well now you can sign the Online Petition to Save the Tasting Room.
Simply Click: Save the Tasting Room
Let's show the City Council of Tampa Bay how large of a community we are!
BTW, our support for the brewery is not going un-noticed. Several of the City Council Members have removed direct links to their email from the website, as well as having people screen their phone calls. This means we are getting to them! Keep it up! You can follow the progress through #SAVECCB on Twitter as well as following daily updates from local #FlaBrew Members on Facebook and Twitter!
Also the brewery is taking notice. Below is part of a thank you letter from Joey Redner of Cigar City which was posted on the CCB Blog:
First of all, we are speechless at the amount of support we have received in the last 24 hours for our Tasting Room that now hangs in the balance of the Tampa City Council's decision to let us continue operating. Your continued support is what is going to keep our doors open; so please keep the phone calls, letters, and emails flowing!
Please help out and sign the petition. We do not want to lose this brewery or our right to enjoy their beers in the tasting room!
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Please do the right thing and allow the Tasting Room to stay open!
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Cigar City is a perfect example of a small business. If the Tampa Bay City Council believes in small business, they should allow Cigar City to maintain the tasting room. Cigar City is one of the premium craft brewers in the USA, and the ability to have tastings at their brewery is an integral part of their business.
ReplyDeleteCigar City has quickly become a staple in the micro beer industry in the short time they have been operating. It is a welcome home for someone like myself, a Tampa native who now lives in Orlando, Everyday I drive to Tampa and the first place I stop is Cigar City. The people operating and the guests are warm and welcoming. The tasting room is for people whom all have a common hobby of fine craft beer. IT is not a place of over-consumption.
ReplyDeleteThe Micro-beer industry is booming in the United States. Ask the operators of the website of Beeradvocate.com. Cigar City is a constant talk amongst the members of Beer Advocate. Cigar City is at the fore-front of the micro brewing industry. They even hold claim a top 50 beer in the world. It would be a dishonor th the city to remove such an extraordinary place in the Bay Area.
Cigar City is not only a nationally recognized name in the brewing community, it is a well-respected one. It's considered "Tampa's Beer", showcasing the flavors and essence of all things Ybor. Craft beer drinkers are not a rowdy bunch, more of a fun-loving crowd who just wants to relax and enjoy a good cold brew.
ReplyDeletePlease take some time to experience Cigar City first hand before you make hasty judgement calls and label it a trouble spot. Its really the only reason we venture to Tampa anymore.
I can not even think of any reasonable reason the tasting room should be closed. Rather amazing it would even be considered.
ReplyDeletenow is the time to encourage job growth and support the spirit of small business. get with the program and help enable these new job creators to succeed!!
ReplyDeleteThere is no need for bureaucrats’ to be interferring with business in such a overpowering over-reaching manner, and I believe that this is exactly what you are doing.
ReplyDeleteBig government is what is wrong with our country, and on Nov 2nd we the people showed our opinion of the the present regime (which is on the way out), and your interference with a tasting room is in the same kind of control that is not needed, wanted, or called for.
Please stay out of what you do not need to be involved with. The next election will prove out wheather you are within the peoples will (who elected you) or not.
Closing Cigar City's tasying rommis just plain stupid. What idiot decided that this was soooo important that something had to be done anyway? Aren't there real problems to solve in Tampa? Closing the tasting room will make Tampa the laughing stock of the Craft Brew industry.
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