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Bars & Spirits

Coming soon: Our ultimate bar guide!

We're working hard this summer to compile our annual list of Tampa Bay's favorite bars. We're pretty sure we've got a lot of your favorites on our list, but if you're partial to a place or a cocktail, use the tag #tampabaydrinks (like the folks at Kelly's Chic-a-Boom Room did, above) and share your favorite station for a libation. And don't forget about our craft beer page, where we keep you up to speed on the latest brews news. Join the conversation there with #tbtbeer. (And since we don't have our list complete just yet, enjoy last year's story about our search for the "coolest" bar in Tampa Bay by clicking on the headline link.)

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  1. Study sheds light on history of French winemaking

    06/18/13 Bars & Spirits By Greg Keller, Associated Press

    PARIS — Scrapings from the bottoms of 2,500-year-old pottery containers have shed new light on the origins of French winemaking.

  2. Wine of the week: 2011 Fetzer "Shady Loam" gewurztraminer

    06/18/13 Bars & Spirits By Colette and John Bancroft

    "Honeyed" is a pretty good one-word summary of the appeal, to those with a taste for sweet but structured wine, of the 2011 Fetzer "Shady Loam" gewurztraminer, a spice-edged white readily available on local supermarket shelves at about $10.

  3. Devil's Backbone Brewing in Lexington, Va.,

    06/13/13 Bars & Spirits

    What started as a trickle has become a torrent.

  4. Attention! New IPA rules are now in session

    06/13/13 Bars & Spirits By Justin Grant, tbt* columnist

    Commercial craft brewers and home brewers love to experiment. Playing around with new and arcane techniques, blurring the lines between beer styles, and generally creating a product that's both new and exciting — it's all part of the appeal of brewing beer.

  5. For some Rays fans, wine is better than beer

    06/13/13 Bars & Spirits By Robbyn Mitchell, Times Staff Writer

    Debra Hodgdon clasped her fingers around the stem of her plastic wine glass as she sprung out of her seat to cheer during a recent Tampa Bay Rays game.

    Beer? Bah! Some Rays fans prefer Tropicana Field’s red and white wine.