A hanging sign outside a dark-paneled building shows Ology Brewing’s logo—an orange circle with a smaller dot above it—against a white background. In the distance, cars move along a busy Tampa street at dusk.
Ology Brewing in Tampa, Florida. Credit: Photo via Ology Tampa/Facebook

We live in an age when making great beer isn’t enough to keep a brewery’s doors open. These hopped up watering holes now have to be third spaces where people gather for book club, trivia, concerts, and doggy day care.

Ology Brewing’s Tampa taproom has been doing its damndest for three years now and welcomes the work of another brew hub doing the most (Miami’s Tripping Animals, and it’s Trippy Kitchen) to celebrate.

For the first time outside of the South Florida tasting rooms, Trippy chefs bring a Latin-American fusion menu that includes Venezuelan cheese sticks (tequeños, $10), brisket croquette ($12), and croaker ceviche (corvina $18).


There’s no cover for the Ology Brewing three-year anniversary feat. Trippy Kitchen happening Saturday, Sept. 20 in Tampa, but bring money to buy stuff.

TRIPPY KITCHEN POP-UP & 3 YEAR ANNIVERSARY

Time Sat., Sept. 20, 12-6 p.m. 2025

Location Ology Brewing, 6401 N Florida Ave., Tampa

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This article appears in Sept. 11-17 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...