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After Davy Martin moved to South Florida in 2011, the self-described hop head was hard-pressed to find a solid local IPA to his liking. To remedy the dearth of options, he began home brewing. When people told him he had a knack for turning grain into primo liquid, he took it one step further when he and his wife Jaime opened Orchestrated Minds. Today, the nanobrewery stands as a grassroots effort where the couple — alongside a small but dedicated staff — delivers a curated selection of small-batch beers. With hip-hop blasting from the speakers, the open-air ambiance is akin to sharing a cold one with your friends in the backyard, only here you do it with the owners and brewers themselves. It’s the ideal spot to sip some of Davy’s most well-received beers, recipes he’s been perfecting using a one-barrel system. The brewer focuses on delivering true-to-style IPAs, simple sours, and roasty stouts that don’t rely on the use of lactose or artificial extracts. That includes Touch of Grey, an easy-drinking, low-ABV blond ale accented with Earl Grey tea that presents notes of orange and lime, inspired from the couple’s trips to craft beer mecca Hill Farmstead. For those hot summer days, try Surfer’s Tan, a refreshing take on an unfiltered German-style pilsner. A trip to Orchestrated Minds isn’t complete without a taste of the latest stout to hit the draft lines, each new beer a riff on Baseline, Davy’s base stout recipe, which he uses to create the brewery’s popular barrel-aged or adjunct-flavored stout series.