Cycle Brewing will shut their St. Petersburg, Florida brewery this month after 12 years of operation.
One among Florida’s most beloved breweries, Cycle Brewing, and St. Petersburg’s first craft brewery, will shut this month, founder Doug Dozark introduced in a put up on X. A British-themed Inexperienced Turtle Brewery will substitute it on the similar location.
Cycle Brewing’s journey started in 2009 in Gulfport, the place Dozark brewed beer in his mom’s restaurant kitchen on weekends whereas working at Cigar Metropolis Brewing. It launched in St. Pete in 2013, with now-legendary beers like Uncommon Dos, Cream and Sugar, and Crank, plus fashionable “Days of the Week”-named beers. The brewery is ready to promote its lease at 534 Central Avenue, which ends on Could 31, 2026, to the Inexperienced Turtle Brewery. The brewing tools, taproom, and bar are included within the lease switch.
The beer trade is going through a transparent downturn. The Brewers Affiliation’s 2024 report famous that 2024 was the primary 12 months since 2005 when the variety of U.S. craft breweries declined, dropping to 9,680 from 9,747 in 2023. Each craft and macro beer volumes additionally fell over the previous 12 months.
Dozark has acknowledged a number of occasions, together with in Instagram Dwell movies, that craft beer, significantly Cycle Brewing’s distinctive model, not holds the identical attraction because it did years in the past. He’s deeply disillusioned.
Because of Cycle’s barrel-aging program, Dozark plans to promote remaining barrel-aged beers at a retail location after the taproom closes.
Dozark has not shared his plans after Cycle Brewing closes.
