Persimmon Hollow Brewing adds brewery at Lake Eola
DeLand’s Persimmon Hollow Brewing Co. is opening its second brewery near Lake Eola in Orlando.
The brewery is planned for a 4,800-square-foot space that formerly had a Panera Bread at 227 N. Eola Drive in the first floor of the Eo Inn. It is expected to open in spring.
Drinks will include beers brewed and only available at the Orlando spot, as well as the brewery’s core beers like its Beach Hippie IPA that will continue to be brewed in DeLand.
The brewery will also offer food, games and outdoor seating on a patio near the northeast corner of Lake Eola.
The space on the first floor of the Eo Inn had been vacant since the Panera closed in 2017.
Persimmon Hollow was opened by Andy Sistrunk and Robbie Carelli in October 2014.
There are more than 30 breweries in the Orlando area and there were 285 breweries across the state in 2018, according to the national Brewers Association.
Other Orlando-area breweries have shut their doors this year. Ocean Sun Brewing on Curry Ford Road closed last month, joining Red Cypress Brewery in Winter Springs and the south Orange County location of Sea Dog Brewing Co.
Orange County Brewers has moved from downtown Orlando to Seminole County, but Bradenton’s Motorworks Brewing is set to replace it.
A Publix grocery store in Lutz debuted a new kind of shopping cart aimed to give customers in wheelchairs a better shopping experience, according to a report from Fox 13 Tampa.
The carts could come to Orlando if they are needed because they are deployed based on special requests, said Dwaine Stevens, a Publix spokesman.
“Once the need has been identified for a specialty cart, we work with our customers to meet that need,” Stevens wrote in an email.
The cart design allows it to hook onto the front of a wheelchair so that it can be moved along with the wheelchair as opposed to someone attempting to push a cart and the wheelchair separately.
“This cart is a new design, and it’s a lot easier for our wheelchair customers to navigate with it,” store manager Kedrin Fraum told Fox 13.
One Florida mother, Tiffani Borders, posted several videos of her 9-year-old daughter Amaria using the new shopping carts.
“Publix gave my daughter the chance to grab just a little more independence! These attachable wheelchair accessible shopping carts are the best. Thanks, Publix, for including her and everyone else that this will help,” reads one of the posts on her Facebook page on Oct. 10.
Publix used its Facebook account to post to one of Borders’ video, “What an awesome video, Tiffani! Thank you so much for sharing this with us and both of you for shopping with us!”
According to Fox 13, the carts are gradually replacing older models across various Publix stores.