Greg Annabel
Google
This has got to be the best craft brewery in the surrounding Orlando area! All bears are certified ORGANIC! The partners decided to brew what they wanted to drink, and they wanted to drink the best. So they committed to making only the highest quality ales and lagers. But what did “highest quality” mean? To Orlando Brewing it meant two things for sure. It meant the company would brew their beer in accordance with the German Purity Law of 1516 (the Reinheitsgebot), and that they would only use organic ingredients.Now, if following the Reinheitsgebot set them apart from their competition, brewing organically made them the polar opposite of the mainstream.The German Purity Law decreed that beers should only be brewed with four ingredients: water, hops, yeast and malted barley – no adjuncts and no additives. So the purists at Orlando Brewing knew that it takes great ingredients to make great beer, and decided to stick to the time-tested tradition.It’s been over a decade since the beginning and much has changed. The old brewery downtown is now the South Street exit on I4. Our beers became the first to be declared ‘Fresh from Florida’ and in 2006 we were certified as an organic brewery, making us the only U.S.D.A. certified organic brewery south of Vermont and east of Colorado. Florida’s craft beer industry has since boomed and the organic movement has truly taken root. Our beers can be found in over 500 locations in Florida and Graeme Lay is now our Brewmaster. And while four times a year he releases a beer that violates the Reinheitsgetbot (though organically brewed and appropriately dubbed “The Violator Series”), Orlando Brewing has maintained the commitment to bring you only the best.
