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BREWZZI ITALIAN AMERICAN BISTRO – WEST PALM BEACH

GOLD COAST, FLORIDA

Twenty miles north of Boca on the second floor of West Palm Beach’s neuvo City Place emporium lies the second BREWZZI ITALIAN AMERICAN BISTRO, visited January ’08 (closed July ’14). Beautiful copper bar, open-fire kitchen, and glass-encased brew tanks serve wooden side pews and octagon-shaped open veranda.

Salad, pizza, and burger were enjoyed January ’08 alongside approachable standard fare such as soft French-breaded hop-fizzed straw-grassed grapefruit-tart peach-syrupy Boca Blonde Lager, polite cereal-grained peach-fuzzed raspberry-strawberry-tinged Bohemian Pilsner, and biscuit-y orange-fig-centered nut-backed medium-bodied City Fest.

These were mere lead-ins for barley-roasted coffee-grounded chocolate-malted fig-dried dunkelweiss-styled Black Duke Dark.

Topping that were two boozy concoctions: candy-glazed apple-apricot-pear-spiced guava-mango-salted Double English Pale Ale and syrupy alcohol-warmed cherry-bruised prune-stewed raisin-pureed Brewzzi Reserve Barleywine.

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BREWZZI ITALIAN AMERICAN BISTRO – BOCA RATON

GOLD COAST, FLORIDA

Located near the famous Town Center Mall in a freestanding tan building with brick foundation and tropical veranda, Boca Raton’s BREWZZI ITALIAN AMERICAN BISTRO is the original of two same-named brewpubs (visited January ’08 and closed 2014). Established around ’99, its exquisite cherry-stained wood interior features barrel-bolted ceiling design (symbolizing the beer kegs), square center bar fronting glass-encased brew tanks, right hand booths, and open hearth.

Had delicious lunchtime Brewers Ranch Salad as wife and high school pal, Jerry Granato (who drank three Beck’s Non-Alcoholic beers in 10 minutes), joined me following short beach-pool stint.

Wood-dried grapefruit-soured juniper-embittered American Amber Ale had off-putting skunked waft, cardboard-y center and corn-oiled finish. Better blueberry-lacquered Tropical Madness had sweetly candied peach-pineapple-mango cache sidling grainy Boca Blonde Lager base.

Best bet: brown chocolate-fronted, cedar-burnt, prune-stewed, cherry-pureed, bourbon-nipped, crème brulee-dabbed Imperial Porter.

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