{"id":409590,"date":"2026-09-24T20:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T20:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/409590\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T20:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T20:14:08","slug":"green-bench-brewing-opens-a-new-beer-bar-upstairs-at-webbs-in-downtown-st-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/409590\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Bench Brewing opens a new beer bar Upstairs at Webb\u2019s in downtown St. Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Green Bench will begin with Goodwin Sands, an English-style summer ale made with Tampa\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/latestartbrewing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Late Start Brewing<\/a>, and Mighty Fragile, a London porter. Both are made with traditional English ingredients and processes, including housemade invert sugar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cThe reason cask conditioning is important is because it completely changes the texture of the products,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cThese beers are naturally carbonated instead of the forced carbonation. They\u2019re also served at a warmer temperature, so we\u2019re playing with temperature to manipulate texture as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Beer is at the center of the program, but not the only medium. Upstairs at Webb\u2019s will also offer sparkling wines, ports, ciders, and a small menu of wine-based mixed drinks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The bubbles in a sparkling wine, the silky body of a port, and the spritzy or velvety character of a mixed drink all fit into the same larger conversation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">That sense of discovery has always been central to Webb\u2019s City Cellar, which has built a following around Belgian beers, barrel-aged releases, spontaneous fermentation, and other styles that often require a little explanation before the first sip. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Upstairs at Webb\u2019s will continue that tradition, with staff guiding guests through not only what they are drinking, but why it is being served that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Green Bench will begin with Goodwin Sands, an English-style summer ale made with Tampa\u2019s Late Start Brewing, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-409590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}