Cigar City Brewing Spruce Street Brewery & Taproom

Cigar City Brewing was rated the "#3 Best Brewery in the World" by RateBeer.com in 2010's Ratebeer's Best Awards; and then the #"4 Best Brewery in the World" in 2011's polling's of 10,000+ breweries. Their most award-winning beer in the U.S. is their Humidor Series IPA which won back-to-back medals at the Great American Beer Festival: Gold in 2009 and Silver in 2010 for the "Wood Aged" beer category.  The first commercial batches of Cigar City beer were released into the Tampa Bay marketplace in March 2009. The total year-end production was around 1,000 barrels of beer in 2009. 2010 production was 3,500 barrels, and 2011 projections are thought to be in excess of 8,500 barrels. Cigar's City is to be come Florida's regional brewery; and it seems that they are well on their way to attainment.