Cool coladas at festival
Coffee house’s anniversary bash today includes a roasted pig, sangria and craft beer.
Colada Cuban Coffee House and Eatery in Fort Lauderdale, known for its refreshing shots of caffeinated Cuban elixir, will offer a different kind of afternoon buzz during this weekend’s Colada Fest: the dessert beer.
For its second anniversary party on Saturday, the Cuban restaurant in downtown Fort Lauderdale will pour limitedrelease craft beers from11 local breweries.
Each brew sounds as sweet as aU nicorn Frappuccino. The soon-toopen 3 Sons Brewing Company in Dania Beach and Flagler Village Brewery (inside the Fort Lauderdale Brass Tap) will serve PB Kid, a peanutbutter-chocolate brown ale; and Getting Lei’d, a tropical wheat ale fermented with passionfruit, mango and guava.
Meanwhile, the crafty wizards over at Funky Buddha Brewery will serve Maple Bacon Coffee Porter, a chocolaty brew whose ingredients are self-explanatory. Barrel of Monks in Boca Raton will pour a Belgian-style Singel in Havana and a Chocolate Coconut Parade of Souls. Civil Society Brewing in Jupiter will offer Mornin’ Fix, a brown ale punched with cinnamon, pecan and coffee notes.
Here are the other beers:
• Cigar City Brewing’s Marshall Zhukov’s Penultimate Push, a treatment of its Russian imperial stout
• Odd Breed Wild Ales’ porter with sour Montmorency cherries; and a French oak-aged ale with blackberries
• Copperp oint Brewing Company’s oak-aged red India Pale Ale Imperial B-20; and a wheat beer brewed with blood orange
• Broski Ciderworks’ Pineapple Cider
• Salty Beard Brewing’s Beach Day Beer, a dryhopped saison; and Imperial Adjunctz, a hoppy stout with coffee, hazelnut, pecan, vanilla and chocolate
Colada will also roast a pig and offer samples of sangria, along with music, games and giveaways, and the first 100 ticket-buyers will collect swag bags.
Colada Fest will take place 2-6 p.m. Saturday, April 29, at Colada Cuban Coffee House and Eatery, 525N. Federal Highway, in Fort Lauderdale. Admission is$40-$45. Call 954-368-4705 or go to ColadaHouse.com.