Sunday 18th of December 2016 07:15:20 PM

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Naples, Florida is home to the uber-wealthy.

Their "governor" lives here (and I use that term loosely. How he got his money & built his mansion is full of questions); the man who built all those cell phone towers across the USofA lives here; the man who owns a vast broadcasting network also calls Naples home. So there is no shortage of dollars in this southwestern Florida burg.

But every neighborhood needs its brewery.

And Here's yet another small one stuck amid other, non-similar companies in an industrial park far removed from the mail thoroughfares. (And certainly too far away for the aforementioned monied folks)

But don't let their size fool you.

Naples 1st micro-brewery opened in 2012 and is doing bang-up business.

Don't let their website fool you either. Although it says there are 6 beers on tap, wife Persimmon & I arrived a week before Christmas 2016 and found 2-dozen beers of wide variety available including a tantalizingly delicious "just released" rum-barreled aged Stout, Coquito. The folks who made the rum in said beer were also on hand giving out free tastes.

Although no food is served, there is the requisite food truck parked outside...plenty of good beer inside, a covered beer patio (can't be called a garden!) to relieve some of the heat and humidity (Although at Xmas & 82, it was very tolerable) and grand customer service.

They'll give you a taste (or two) of anything on the tap list and served with a big smile, no questions asked (and not all breweries are so inclined...although they should be!) and you will walk away a confirmed believer.