Cigar City – Hunahpu's Day 2013 Underway (Update)

the Tampa brewery’s beer started selling at noon — a limit of three bottles each to the first 4,000 people in line, $20 for each 22-ounce bottle.

But even Marquis’ commitment paled when compared to that of Miami beer distributor Cesar Vazquez, a big guy in a bright yellow Cigar City Brewing T-shirt with the words "The Line Starts Here" on the back. As he has done the past three years, Vazquez was the first in line, setting up his camp chair just outside the tasting room at 4 p.m. Friday. The shirt was a gift from head brewer Wayne Wambles and other Cigar City staffers, but his was far from the only beer T-shirt in the crowd. Beer aficionados from around the world convened in Tampa on Saturday, many shirts emblazoned with their hometown brews or those cult craft beers that have prompted so much fervor in the past couple of years.