Crazy Night

As I pulled into the parking lot all I could see was a dark black door. There appeared to be shadows moving around inside with beads, hats, and all types of craziness.

I opened the door, and took a peek inside....and what I saw almost knocked me off my feet.

BEER GEEKS! oh my Heavens BEER GEEKS! (no offense to anyone there...lol)

Yep, I knew I was in the right place. These were my peeps. They came in all shapes and sizes. All different ages, sexes, and backgrounds. Though we were all different in just about every way we all were united for the love of one thing- BEER!

Where was I? Heaven? Colorado? Mardi Gras? Nope.....I was at the Boca Beer Lovers meetup.

Yep, and I was a virgin...it was magical.

The Boca Beer Lovers meet up once a month and dicuss all things beer. These meetings are a great place to come and sample some new beers, try some homebrews, meet some new friends, and talk about all things that have to do with beer.

Last night we sampled the house brews from The Funky Buddha (which I reviewed already from their soft opening), several of their stellar tap selections, and (the treat) some Great Lakes Beers.

Yep, Great Lakes, you can only get that stuff in Clevland, Ohio or the Boca Beer Lovers meetups.

Jonathan Gottlieb, has been putting these meet ups on for the past eleven months, and has seen the group grow from a handful to 30+ at last night's meetup.

For more information about Boca Beer Lovers and a detailed break down of which Great Lakes Beers we sampled last night, jump on over to Boca Beer Lovers.

I'll See Ya Next Month!

The Funky Buddha Lounge, Boca Raton

**I now interrupt your regularly scheduled program with this news update**

THE FUNKY BUDDHA LOUNGE IN BOCA IS NOW OPEN AND BETTER THAN EVER!

Question from the crowd; "Wait hold up Ferm, did you say they're open, they never closed?!?!?"

Well they are re-open folks, and last night Dos-Beerigos was invited to check out the new diggs and what can I say I'm speechless.

Cerveza Chica and I went by and were greeted at the door, Cerveza Chica had to speak for me since my jaw was on the ground....this is what I saw......



It was heaven within a beer bar!

Now what’s different about the new Funky Buddha? Well besides the fact that the place has grown by at least 4x's, the stage is larger (allowing for more acts, and the most important....HOMEBREW!

Yep Funky Buddha now not only carries some of the finest Micro's in the local area in draft and bottle (over 110 at any given time) but they also now carry up to 6 HOMEBREWS.....ohh yah!

So the new Brew/Pub of sorts had some offerings and I had to test them out; as a beer fan and a homebrewer. Last night they were offering;

an IPA "Hop-Gun"; and it's just like the movie Top-Gun because it "enters the danger zone" with 6 different types of hops entered 14 times in the brew!

They also had the "Floridian" which was a pretty straight forward Hefe. with some amazing yeast notes to it.

A "Piiti" Porter; which was probably my favorite of the night (and I hate porters!) it was big and bold up front with a nice sweetness lingering at the end....a nice treat!

Finally, a Kolsch Style Brew by the name of "Kaya"; very easy to drink and had nice sour and sweet notes to it...great for a fan of Lagers or lighter beer.


The grand opening is tonight (2-5-2010), and I have to say you must go in and try the homebrews then venture down the draft lines to the Micros (they have some awesome stuff on tap right now...)

The New location is located in the same shopping center as the last location just further down! All the information can be found here @ The Funky Buddha

See yah @ Funky Buddha

So Cheers.....wait no BEERS!