A woman with shoulder-length blonde hair is photographed from behind, turning her head to look directly at the camera. She is wearing a green top with a black pattern, and the background is a soft-focus orange-red brick wall.
Betty Fox Credit: Press Handout

Crooked Thumb Brewery is one Grateful Dead tribute night away from being Pinellas’ Skipper’s Smokehouse, but in reality there’s no venue within 100 miles that could recreate the charm of the Safety Harbor venue’s oak canopy.

To mark a decade in the neighborhood, owner (and songwriter) Kip Kelly has asked his team to prep 30 beers on tap (including collaborations with friends, old faves and new sips), limited-edition merch, food trucks, plus two days of live music from the like of the bluesy Betty Fox Band, Best of the Bay-winning roots-folk-bluegrass-icana act The Wandering Hours, and Zydeco genre-bender The Cadillac Cowboys.

There’s no cover for the 10-year anniversary part for Crooked Thumb Brewery in Safety Harbor happening Friday-Saturday, Oct. 17-18.

Crooked Thumb Brewery 10th Anniversary

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Location Crooked Thumb Brewery, 555 10th Ave. S, Safety Harbor

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This article appears in Oct. 16 – 22, 2025.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...