Tampa's beer scene, ranked by the people who drink it: Angry Chair's nationally-traded stouts, Common Dialect's ★4.7 neighborhood taproom, and the Seminole Heights circuit that made the city a beer town.
Orlando's beer scene runs deeper than the tourist strips suggest — a founding craft church in Audubon Park, a ★4.9 tap curator on Curry Ford, and the Milk District's perfect two-bar circuit.
Seminole Heights has the best brewery density in Tampa. This is the North Florida Avenue corridor — Angry Chair, Florida Avenue Brewing Co., Brew Bus, Common Dialect — and how to do it right in one evening on foot.
Seminole Heights is Tampa's most creatively interesting food neighborhood — Michelin-recognized restaurants, craft breweries, and award-winning barbecue on a walkable stretch of North Florida Avenue that most visitors never find.
Walk into any Florida brewery on a Saturday afternoon and you can usually guess the region within a minute. Tampa pours a hazy double IPA the color of orange juice into a thirteen-ounce snifter. Jacksonville hands you a pint of English bitter and asks if you want to start a tab.