Cigar City Brewing Hires Brewer
March 7th, 2008 by Brian Ries in Drink, Eating Local, Gossip
Joey Redner (no relation), local beer columnist for the St. Pete Times, just hired a head brewer for his new craft brewery.
According to Beer Advocate, Wayne Wambles will be brewing Cigar City Brewing’s first batches of beer, slated to be released in September of this year. Wambles recently worked for Foothill’s Brewing in North Carolina. According to the press release, Wambles makes a mean strong scotch ale and is a fan of Belgians, while Redner loves him some stout and porter, so look for those to be in Cigar City’s early line-up. If they can find some hops.
Since he’s a writer as much as a beer entrepeneur, Redner has a blog chronicling his path towards craft brew success. You may also want to check out last year’s CL Beer Issue for the rags to brews success story of Bob Sylvester and Saint Somewhere.
March 7th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
I don’t know about his beer, but Wayne Wambles sure has an awesome alliterative appellation.
March 17th, 2008 at 12:48 am
well this is exciting… and the first batch will be just in time for CL’s beer fest!
i like that they are going to be focusing on high gravity belgium style beers.