Once-booming Big Storm Brewing faces eviction, lawsuit and closures

The Clearwater-based brewer and distiller, which has shut three of its five taprooms, is facing off against a disgruntled investor as a second landlord in a year says the company didn’t pay rent.


  • By Louis Llovio
  • | 5:00 a.m. June 11, 2024
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Big Storm Brewing it taproom and restaurant in Ybor City February 2023.
Big Storm Brewing it taproom and restaurant in Ybor City February 2023.
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Big Storm Brewing, a Clearwater company growing quickly in recent years — with splashy headlines to back it up — was hit by two legal actions in the past few weeks that raise questions about how it is operating and its financial decision making.

The two actions were filed within a few days of each other and follow a year in which the company already closed two locations, one of which, court papers allege, was more than $40,000 past due in rent on.

 

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