After leaving Hogan’s Beach we were only a few miles away from the Cigar City Brewhouse Tasting Room and as this was Chris’ top destination on his trip to Florida we decided to dedicate the next hour to seeing what Cigar City was all about.

The exterior of the building is quite modest. I acutally had no idea that such a hidden gem was located right off of Dale Mabry.

I had never been to a tasting room before so I was instore for quite a treat. My comrad Chris had been to several of these before so he felt quite at home. I was familiar with the Cigar City label but hadn’t given the brand the full experience.

Luckily for me, the tasting room had over 30 of their beers on draft ready for tasting. Even better, the tasting room had the sample paddle available where you could pay around $6 bucks and get a small sample of four beers.

The three of us grabbed three notecards with four vacant slots for beers to try and we occupied the slots with beers that our hearts desired.

I decided to try a coffee beer, a lager, some random and most rememberably, the Chocolate Banana beer. They were all fantastic. We sat there and took our time and enjoyed the good flavors like beer snobs.

Cigar Rolling station in the Cigar City Brewhouse

Finally we decided we had had enough and it was time to hit Caddy’s off of Treasure Island and enjoy a few rays of the sun while the vacation weekend still existed for my guests.