Interview with Three Palms Brewing

I'm back at doing interviews after a bit of a break. I'm also going to be changing things up a bit. This time I'm going to actually try a beer or two from the brewery I'm doing an interview with. That will make the postings a bit irregular. Just depends on how easily I can get my hands on the beers. That being said I'm open to suggestions and willing to do a trade to get a sample from a brewery.

This interview is with Randy Reaver from Three Palms Brewing in Tampa, FL. I was able to get a growler of a Pale Ale called Accolades in the Pacific by Three Palms that had a very interesting and different hop flavor to it that I really enjoyed. Randy describes it as an experimental beer. This beer had a forward malt profile that balanced very well with the flavor of the the two hops that were used.

Hope you enjoy the interview.

1. How did you get started in brewing? 

I started as a home brewer from the love of drinking craft beer. When I started home brewing I was really into IPA's so a partial extract IPA was the first beer that I brewed

2. How did you decide to open your own brewery? 

The desire to brew better and more craft beer coupled with the desire for a new career was the driving factor.

3. I was fortunate to be able to get some of your beer in a growler. I had a beer called Accolades in the Pacific. What can you tell me about that beer? 

Accolades in the Pacific was an experimental beer based on a pale ale style brewed with Bravo and Pacific Jade hops fermented on Scotch Ale yeast.

4. I noticed that you do package beer. How often do you have a packaged release? Are your packaged beers distributed? 

We do packaged beer and the schedule of the beer releases vary. For the month of October we have a few bottle releases including Palmkin Pumpkin Ale, Skippin' a Jiffy Peanut Butter Stout and, Hot Schutff, A stout aged on brown sugar, cinnamon and ghost peppers. We also can our Going The Distance Session IPA from time to time and bottle some of our other beers. At this time all of our packaged beers are sold out of our tasting room but we have distributed a few in the past.

5. From your website, looks like you have a lot of different beers on tap in your tap room. Is that usual? 

Yes, we typically brew 1 to 2 new beers every week with the idea of keeping our tap list constantly rotating with fresh craft beer.

6. I noticed you have guest beers in your taproom. How do you decide what your guest beers will be? 

Guest beers are determined by styles of beer that we don't have on tap from our brewery.

7. Which of your beers have won awards? 

In 2013 we won Silver for our Pindo IPA in the Best of Florida Beer Championships and in 2014 we won gold and second runner up best of show small batch category in the Best of Florida Beer Championships

8. Do you ever brew any beers with locally sourced ingredients? 

We try to as much as we can. We have brewed a few beers using locally grown star fruit and guava. 

9. Are you planning any type of expansion? 

We have acquired an additional 2000sq. ft. in June and have added a larger brew kettle and a few other pieces of equipment. At this time we are going to keep brewing with what we have.

10. Are you going to be pouring at any upcoming events? We do not have any on the calendar at the moment but we have done quite so far this year.

11. Do you use social media to communicate with the public about your brewery? 

We are very active on social media to communicate events, happenings, and new beer releases at our brewery. We utilize Facebook facebook.com/ThreePalmsBrewing, Twitter @ThreePalmsBrew , and Instagram @ThreePalmsBrewing. Our website is www.threepalmsbrewing.com. 

Thanks for reaching out to us for the interview, Cheers!

Thanks again to Randy for taking time out to respond to the interview. I really enjoyed the beer from Three Palms and hope to get to try even more of their offerings.

Here are a couple of useful links to Three Palms Website:

What's On Tap

Calendar of Events