Credit: ADOBE

Credit: ADOBE

Tampa Bay Beer Week is almost a wrap, and one of its most ridiculous events is a really good reason to be hungover at work next Thursday. The Brewery Battle of the Bands invites tune-loving, mostly musically-inclined brewery employees to trade suds for songs in one of the only battles of the bands worth caring about. Some bands are actually good (read: Dunedin Brewery, Coppertail), and some are… better when you’re five beers deep. Either way, it’s a great time, and your $5 cover goes towards music education programs.

Wed. March 11, 5 p.m. $5. Crowbar, 1812 N. 17th St., Ybor City. 5 p.m. tampabaybeerweek.com

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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...