{"id":42817,"date":"2025-11-11T19:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T19:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/42817\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T19:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T19:52:08","slug":"cigar-city-brewing-moving-to-its-namesake-ybor-city-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/42817\/","title":{"rendered":"Cigar City Brewing moving to its namesake, Ybor City, in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Cigar City Brewing in Channelside. Credit: Cigar City Brewing<\/a><\/p>\n

Tampa\u2019s most famous craft brewery will finally serve beer in its namesake city. <\/p>\n

Cigar City Brewing (CCB) posted<\/a> on X (formerly Twitter) last Thursday that it will move from its longtime Spruce Street location to Ybor City in 2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter 16 years, Cigar City Brewing is heading to the place that inspired it all!\u201d the post read. <\/p>\n

Its original brewhouse is coming along, too. Beer will still be made and served at its Spruce Street location until the lease ends in March. <\/p>\n

CCB founder Joey Redner, who sold his controlling shares of the company in 2016, told All About Beer<\/a> that he is going to the landlord for his old company, with the blog noting that CCB would now be housed inside Redner\u2019s Cigar City & Mead at 1812 N 15th St.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said they should move in with me at cider in Ybor,\u201d Redner told the blog. \u201cIt used to be a brewery so I knew we could squeeze one in. It kind of percolated from there and relatively quickly we hashed out a lease and here we are.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though Cigar City is one of the East Coast\u2019s leading breweries, distributing in six states, it\u2019s not been immune to the craft beer industry\u2019s decline in recent years. Last year\u2019s shakeups with its parent company resulted in a dozen Tampa employees being laid off<\/a>, including legendary brewer Wayne Wambles.<\/p>\n

Many local craft breweries have shifted to distilled spirits. More than half of the Tampa Bay area\u2019s wholesale liquor sales were reported by craft breweries from September 2024 to August 2025, per the Tampa Bay Business Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

CCB, started by Joey Redner (son of strip club kingpin and free speech advocate Joe Redner) in 2009, played a key role in the local craft beer boom of the 2010s. Redner sold his controlling share of the company in 2016. Cigar City also maintains taprooms at Amalie Arena and inside Tampa International Airport.<\/p>\n

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