Funky Buddha Sets Oakland Park, FL Grand Opening For June 1st

Well folks, the day is finally arriving! We’ve been working for nearly two years on our new brewing facility located in Oakland Park, Florida (which for those unfamiliar is about 30 minutes South of the original Lounge), and come June 1, that work will come to fruition.

We’re so excited about unveiling what we’ve built here. A lot of folks have asked how the Brewery will differ from the Lounge. Well, it’s going to be a bit different. Firstly, we’ve operated the Lounge as a craft beer tap room, live music venue, and relaxed hangout spot for around six years now. When we started brewing a little over two years ago we had no idea what it would come to mean for us. The support we’ve received from the beer and brewing community has been incredible – the exhilaration we felt when our beers like Maple Bacon Coffee Porter and No Crusts received national attention was as honoring as it was humbling. That experience was formative in choosing this path to make our beer the forefront of our business. And that path beings with the new Funky Buddha Brewery in Oakland Park.

This Brewery’s focus is on two main aspects: distributing our beers locally, and later regionally (to which end we’ve signed statewide Florida distribution with Brown Distributing — more on that later), and our tap room. In the tap room we to hope create a public house of sorts where the local community and supporters of craft beer can converge and share a pint. Our design philosophy from the Lounge will remain intact in some main areas: we want the tap room to feel inviting and relaxing, the sort of venue where one may just as easily discuss beer styles with a fellow fan or join some friends for a relaxing evening out. To that end, we’ve employed and expounded upon some of the natural materials we’ve used in the past such as live-edge wood, aged tin, raw concrete, and galvanized piping. The goal is to give the tap room a classic feel, but also remind people they are in a brewery — a fact that is hard to ignore when peering through the tall windows that look into the main facility.

The Lounge will remain relatively unchanged, if not for the fact that our large-scale production at the Brewery will allow us to focus more on experimental and test batches with the Lounge’s more diminutive brewing system. To circle back to our distribution, our plan is to start locally in the South Florida area with draft kegs before expanding out into other regions of the state, and then eventually into bottles and/or cans. 

As for the Grand Opening, we’ve got a ton of information below on what we’re doing on June 1. Take a look, and feel free to ask questions or just respond to what we’ve got here. We want to make this a fun community event – we hope you’ll join us to celebrate the Brewery’s future. 

Cheers,

The Funky Buddha Brewery Team

Grand Opening Celebration – June 1, 4pm-midnight
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