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The brewing of beer is a technology as old as civilization itself. Since its inception, mankind has steered its innovative mind toward the betterment of this process, as well as making beer more pleasurable to drink.

Many inventions have come down the line, from the beer tap to the beer hat, yet the process of brewing beer (and drinking it) has remained unchanged. The popularity of craft beer is also spawning new ideas to make beer more interesting.

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Courtesy of Eddie Leon

So you're a homebrewer in Miami and you want to start a brewery. If population density is any indicator, the market is ripe compared to Asheville, North Carolina, a city of 83,000 people that has at least a dozen breweries (including brewpubs) and counting.

Eddie Leon, 44, founder of Most Wanted Brewery in Doral, is one of two brewery startups in Miami-Dade. Along with Wynwood Brewing Company, Most Wanted is on the rise.

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Courtesy of J. Wakefield

Johnathan Wakefield stirs the Florida brew pot with some Cigar City collaboration brews.

Johnathan Wakefield, owner/founder of J. Wakefield Brewing Company and Miami beer crafter extraordinaire, is teaming up with Cigar City Brewing for some collaboration brewing. Again.

This time, however, the new line of brews is going commercial and if Miami distributors are willing, you might get to see it in area stores.

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With passage of Amendment 64, which legalizes cannabis for recreational use in Colorado comes the possibility of a new market for cannabis beer.

Washington state legalized recreational cannabis too. Even though cannabis beer has been made by home brewers for years, commercial breweries probably won't be following suit, considering that cannabis is illegal federally and in most states.

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This Saturday the Biscayne Brewers Exposition will be held at the Kovens Conference Center on the Biscayne Bay Campus of Florida International University, and will feature area brewers who are known for creating the best product in their line of work.

What originally was going to be a home brewing competition turned out to be an exposition to showcase the success of the Florida beer industry. At the heart of the success are the brewers.

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Courtesy of Luis Brignoni

There is a mantra that goes something like this: do one thing and do it well. For Wynwood Brewing Company's brewmaster, Jim Patton, that one thing is making good beer.

Patton joined Luis Brignoni's brewing operation last month. He, Brignoni and Luis Brignoni Sr. are currently preparing to open the first brewery in Miami city limits since the Wagner Brewing Company in 1934.

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LoKal Burgers & Beer in Coconut Grove

Miami homebrewers are back, and this Thursday and Friday they'll converge on LoKal Burgers and Beer in Coconut Grove to celebrate Oktoberfest with the first annual Home Brewers Bash.

The event is a leadup to this year's Grovetoberfest on October 13. Besides tasting some homebrewed suds that you will not find anywhere else in the world, the event will feature some of Miami's most prominent homebrew crews: Subvert Ales, B.R.E.W. FIU, Gravity Brewbar, CerveTech, and J. Wakefield Brewing.

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All photos by David Minsky

Big things are happening at Schnebly Miami Brewing Company. First the beer appeared at LoKal Burgers and Beer, then a short time later at World of Beer-Dadeland. Now: across Florida. Late last month, Miami-Dade's first craft brewery signed a distribution contract with Doral-based Gold Coast Beverage Distributors, Inc.

Gold Coast is Florida's largest beer distributor, according to their website. Their territory spans from Tequesta, Palm Beach County, to Broward, Miami and the Florida Keys.

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Read "Microbrewing in Miami."

Thirsty for knowledge? Well public education in Miami just became little better after Florida International University started offering classes on how to brew your own beer.

The FIU Chaplin School of Hospitality and Tourism Management introduces beginner, intermediate and advanced lessons for the Fall 2012 Beer Academy.

The classes begin this Saturday, September 8, at the FIU Biscayne Bay Campus. The Basic Home Brewing Course is a one day, four hour course where you get to work with home brewing kits like a Mr. Beer kit and learn the basics of brewing at home like sanitization, bottle recycling and ingredient calculations. Cost is $45 per person.

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Key West Brewfest starts its third year on Thursday, August 30, and will be the biggest ever, with over 60 beer companies, many of those from Florida.

Among the Florida vendors on the list are Naples Beach Brewery, 7venth Sun, Swamp Head Brewery, Cigar City, The Native Brewing Company and Florida Beer Company.

And for the more localized beers there will be Funky Buddha Lounge and Brewery, Holy Mackerel, Inlet Brewing Company, Tequesta Brewing Company, Due South Brewing Company, Key West's very own Bubba's and Island Brewing Inc., and of course Miami's B.R.E.W. FIU. Sadly, CerveTech cannot make the event.

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