Inaugural ‘Beer and Metal Mayhem’ festival comes to Tampa on Fourth of July

Florida breweries and two Bay area metal bands collide.

click to enlarge Deviant Libation's Tim Ogden. - Photo by Dave Decker
Photo by Dave Decker
Deviant Libation's Tim Ogden.
If you wished that beer festivals were more metal, well, Tim Ogden is your man.

The brewer had a hand in some of the best Bay area beers ever (read: Tocobaga red), and he’s spent the last year-or-so turning his Deviant Libation brewery and tasting room into a church of brew and community.

Hard-hitting metal outfits will take the stage for this no-cover festival while the taps get taken over by four equally monstrous Bay area breweries—Angry Chair, Magnanimous, Woven Water and Deviant—plus Bonita Springs’s Ceremony Brewing and phantom brew operation Mythk Brewing.

There’s no cover for Beer and Metal Mayhem happening at Deviant Libation in Tampa on Thursday, July 4. Subscribe to Creative Loafing newsletters.

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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 in August 2019. Past work can be seen at Suburban Apologist, Tampa Bay Times, Consequence of Sound and The...
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