Funky Buddha Brewery

Welcoming and inviting. Knowledgeable and engaging staff. Spacious, inside and out.

Top stop in FTL, though it's a little ways from the downtown area. A large open space, very large bar. They have an extensive tap list, so I went with a sampler. They do have some unique/flavored beers such as a ginger IPA, peanut butter & jelly beer, rice ale with vanilla and peanuts, french toast beer, chocolate porter with cocoa nibs, imperial stout with coffee and vanilla beans, maple bacon coffee porter. If you're into these kinds of beers, you'll be right at home (of course they have the standard styles as well). As for food, I just got a meat and cheese plate, which was decent. Overall, really enjoyable place, lots of tasty and unique beers.

Nice open space with lots to do, comfortable. You can tell they dumped a lot of money into this place. I didn't really like the service setup where you appeared to have multiple servers, so you didn't get real attention, had to flag people down multiple times. Really strong selection of the all sought after barrel aged beers, plus almost all of those in to go bottles. Quality as lacking. As they have scaled quality hasn't. Morning wood, wide awake, last buffalo etc we're all good but not like they used to be. Cool spot but I wouldn't go out of the way.

Big place with high ceilings and an electic vibe. Music was blaring and it was generally very loud, so not exactly a relaxing tasting room. Regardless, there's a big taplist with 16-18 taps. Custom flights of 4 available for $9, or 5 for $12 (whoever did the pricing failed high school math) - excluding BA beers. Single taster pours available too. Very friendly service, only too happy to help. A few bottles available to go as well. Big food menu, with only a few vegetarian options, nothing vegan. Beer quality is stellar.

Went back just last week (December 2017) and was disappointed. A bunch of very average new beers on tap. They have food now which was good, but overpriced. At least they sold bottles of Morning Wood and Last Buffalo ($25 each!). Usually I don’t get super hyped about the types of beers that Funky Buddha brews as they seem to tend toward the gimmicky side, but this brewery is certainly an exception. Making amazing tasting beers with stuff like sweet potato and others. Friendly service, reasonably prices flights. Lots of taps to try. I’d come back for sure, especially as they seem to rotate fairly often. Food at the food truck outside was expensive but good, and you can bring it in.

This place is great. Super family friendly, huge, lots of pallet wood and tasteful neon signs adorning the wall. Board games, bags (around here we call it cornhole), great food (try the gourmet popcorn), and attentive service. Our glasses never got empty. Busy but not overly loud. The crowd seemed to be knowledgeable beer drinkers, not people out to get drunk. Lots of families but if you don’t have kids don’t let that scare you off. There is still plenty of fun to be had. Sadly I was on vacation, but if I lived near here I would visit all the time. The only negative I can think of is that their take home bottle selection is very limited. Check this place out if you are in the area.

Superbowl Sunday. Not overly packed but busy. Easy parking across the street. WIFI available. Flights available I don’t remember the exact cost but not bad. Server was top notch and knew the beer. Selection was plentiful. Beer quality was far better than average. Nice open seating beside the bar area and seating outside as well. Music was there but not over the top,

Latest visit fairly late evening of Wednesday February 1, 2017.
Parked just across the street. No food truck this time. Not overly crowded, but plenty of people. Had a light food snack that were rather good from their kitchen. A few flights of beer. Easy enough to get a tab started. Fast and friendly service. They could turn down the volume of the music though.

Visited during the evening on Wednesday January 21, 2015.
Got there by car, quite the drive up from Hollywood Beach (Ft Lauderdale), seemed to be some parking outside. Had great food from a food truck outside, but not rating it since I guess it is not part of the brewery. Had some 14 of their own beers on, plus some from CCB and Tequesta, total of 21 taps I think it was.
Their standard beers were good, but the others were more gimmicky than anything else.
Pretty big place with plenty of seating, also a long bar with plenty of servers working it. Nice fast service, no problem getting a tab running using your card. No problem getting 4 beer flights served with some small nuts (?) to clense your palate. Nice bathroom. Tried getting some bottles by the singles to bring back to Sweden, but only sold on premise in 6-packs.

Busy and packed on a Tuesday even, but lots of space and a huge bar, and if it wasn’t raining a lot of outside space too. Service was great, on top of it and knowledgeable, really welcoming. Great selection of core beers and special brewery only offerings. Food looked good, but didn’t order any. Definitely a south Florida destination.