There are still nearly 70 days until the Tampa Bay Lightning’s 2025-26 season opener, but that didn’t stop hockey fans from filing into Amalie Arena to warm up their beer-drinking muscles. Bolts Brew Fest—the Bay area’s only arena-sized, super air-conditioned, beer festival—returned to downtown Tampa last Friday, complete with Denis Phillips greeting fans and the festival’s own signature Blue Line Blueberry wheat ale brewed by our pals at Channelside Brewing.
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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…
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