![]() ![]() Its 10th anniversary celebrations will take place June 1 to 10. “The product didn’t diminish back then, and it will only get better now.”įunky Buddha is at 1201 NE 38th St., Oakland Park. “I don’t regret the initial sale,” he said. With Funky Buddha returning to the hands of its founders, he is curious to see how locals react now. “So reading that bothered me, because we still had the same employees.” “There was never someone who came down from Constellation and said, ‘I’m going to tell you how to run the place,’ ” he said. When he first sold Funky Buddha to Constellation in 2017, KC Sentz remembers reading social-media criticism from locals who “said the brewery sold out, that it wasn’t the same,” he recalled. Only the Sentz brothers operate the brewery today. That brewery, which debuted June 1, 2013, began serving comfort food in 2015 and doubled its square footage. KC Sentz and wife Melissa joined the brewery team soon after.īy 2013, its success - along with sales of its sought-after brew, the syrupy breakfast-in-a-glass Maple Bacon Coffee Porter - helped catapult Funky Buddha into its first production brewery in a 20,000-square-foot warehouse on North Dixie Highway in Oakland Park. Ping Pong is a world fusion music album recording by OLD SCHOOL FUNKY FAMILY released in 2017 on CD, LP/Vinyl and/or cassette. With burnt sienna walls and a blissed-out attitude, the Buddha burnished its reputation quickly via word of mouth from locals and nearby Florida Atlantic University students. Head brewer Ryan and wife Giani Sentz started Funky in 2010 out of a hookah lounge and experimental microbrewery in a quiet strip mall in Boca Raton. Meanwhile, other events will include a vinyl night (June 2), a beach cleanup in Pompano Beach (June 3), a ping-pong tournament (June 4), a flight night (June 7) and a “Hot Ones”-themed hot wing-eating contest and question-and-answer session with Ryan and KC Sentz (both June 8). (Joe Cavaretta/South Florida Sun Sentinel) In 2013, Funky Buddha moved into its first production brewery in a 20,000-square-foot warehouse on North Dixie Highway in Oakland Park. They are scheduled to be released during a daylong taproom party on June 10. They include Confetti Cuddles, a birthday cake-inspired, rum barrel-aged imperial cream ale punched with almond, coconut and vanilla Coconut Cream Pie IPA, a hazy IPA and Bob’s Backyard, a blond ale with mango and habanero. Three of those beers will be released during Funky Buddha’s 10th anniversary party, a lineup of festivities running June 1 to 10. He has a chef’s mind creating dessert beers.” “We’re going to make the Willy Wonka mural better,” KC Sentz said. In coming months, there will be a new canning line capable of producing 240 cans per minute, a refreshed menu for its Craft Food Counter & Kitchen and a new look for the taproom, which is filled with quotes from Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” We did 60 weddings last year and this gives us more opportunities.”Īlong with a new distillery is a planned makeover for Funky Buddha. ![]() “Ryan and I love cocktails, always have, but also our banquet business continues to grow. “There were two reasons to get a spirits license,” he said. KC Sentz said liquor has added variety to Funky’s private events business in the taproom. In January, Funky Buddha bought a liquor license and introduced seven new craft cocktails to the taproom, including a Maple Bacon Old Fashioned, that use third-party spirits. That includes installing a distillery - perhaps as soon as this year - inside Funky’s existing brewhouse, which would pump out small-batch spirits. The movie hits theaters and VOD on June 6th! I think it's worth checking out.However, the sale now allows Funky Buddha to “think beyond beer,” he said. Ping Pong Summer is about that time in your life when you're treated like an alien by everyone around you, even though you know-deep down-you're as funky fresh as it gets. During his family's annual summer vacation to Ocean City, Maryland, Rad makes a new best friend, experiences his first real crush, becomes the target of rich, racist local bullies, and finds an unexpected mentor in his outcast next-door neighbor. Rad Miracle is a shy, 13-year-old white kid obsessed with two things: Ping-Pong and hip-hop. It's like the Karate Kid and North Shore of Ping Pong. It's incredibly adorable and fantastically cheesy in the best ways… So it has the same style of acting, story, music, and dialogue that you would expect from a movie like that. ![]() Ping Pong Summer was intentionally made to feel like an old school '80s film. Hell, even the trailer is cut in the style of a cheesy 80s trailer. This movie oozes with of 80s greatness that I'm sure many of you will enjoy and appreciate. Today we have a great trailer for the 1980s set, coming of age comedy. Ping Ping Summer was one of the most entertaining movies that I saw while I was up at Sundance this year. ![]()
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