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BEER, IT’S WHAT’S FOR BREAKFAST To the bloody mary and the mimosa, early rising imbibers have added as an eye-opening option the “Biergarita,” made with tequila, orange juice, lime juice and Shock Top beer.
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BEERS AT DAWN-THIRTY Breakfast brews are opening eyes by THOMAS J. MONIGAN
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April-May 2021
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heryl Crow, in her 1994 hit, “All I Wanna Do” — recall I like a good beer buzz early in the morning / And Billy likes to peel the labels from his bottles of Bud — may have unwittingly anticipated a trend. Not so long ago, chugging suds for breakfast usually resulted from staying up all night drinking with friends. Today, not necessarily. Throughout North Florida, from Tallahassee to Pensacola, imbibers are quaffing cold ones with the sun in
the east. Area breweries are adding breakfast beers to their menus of craft creations, sometimes on a seasonal basis. Here’s a sampler. At The Craft Bar in Panama City Beach, Cody Ward touted “Toppling Goliath Nitro Mornin’ Latte,” an imperial coffee milk stout brewed with lactose and a careful blend of cacao nibs and aromatic coffee. “With this style stout, there is a smooth and full body texture leaving just a very small head on the beer photography by ALEX WORKMAN
