Continuing the beer travelogue of my recent Spring Break trip to Florida…

One of the highlights of Spring Break 2015 was going to a baseball game in St. Pete to see the Baltimore Orioles play the Tampa Bay Rays.

Pre-game warm-ups took place in the beer garden at Green Bench Brewing Company in sight of the stadium.

The view from the beer garden:

Inside the tasting room, I reviewed the long beer menu…

I had some time to kill before the game, so I worked my way through two different four beer flights from the many Green Bench taps.

Flight 1:

Green Bench IPA
Demens Black IPA
Spring Bloom Double IPA
Imperial Amber

Flight 2:

Les Grisettes (Farmhouse Ale)
Wild Hermit Pale Ale
Happy Hermit Pale Ale
Saison De Banc Noir

All of the beers were delicious, and I was happy to learn that Green Bench is bottling and will be distributing in the DMV by the summer. I could have stayed at Green Bench all night, but a baseball game awaited.

Once inside the stadium…

I found a decent line-up of craft beer at the local beer station:

Despite the outrageous prices, during the baseball game I had pints of:

• Free Dive IPA, Coppertail Brewing Company, Tampa, Florida
• Wavemaker Amber Ale, Big Storm Brewing Company, Odessa, Florida

The Orioles won the baseball game 6-5 in exciting fashion, so it was an all-around great day, with three new breweries and 10 new beers added to my hit list.

Visited on April 7, 2015.