Following in the footsteps of Asheville in North Carolina and Portland in Oregon, Oklahoma is experiencing a renaissance in the craft beer industry and seeing a seeing a boom in activity thanks to new breweries, microbreweries, and nano-breweries popping up everywhere. From small, family-run establishments like Ant, hem Brewing Company and Bricktown Brewery to large-scale breweries such as COOP Ale Works, Royal Bavaria, and Marshall Brewing Company.

Bricktown Brewery

Bricktown Brewery

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Bricktown Brewery is a local brewpub chain that serves handcrafted beers and ales and mouthwatering food in a casual, relaxed environment. Located in the hip Bricktown district, the brewery features a cozy brick-walled interior with comfortable seating and an inviting, convivial atmosphere. Bricktown Brewery produces a range of year-round beers such as Bluesberry Ale, Single String Stout, 46 Star Oklahoma, and Bricktown Brown, as well as a selection of special edition and seasonal brews. The kitchen serves a menu of casual fare such as pizza, burgers, tacos, chicken wings, and other comfort food, and the brewery and kitchen are open Monday through Sunday, year-round.

1 N Oklahoma Ave, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, Phone: 405-232-2739

Royal Bavaria

Royal Bavaria

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Royal Bavaria is a classic Bavarian brewpub, restaurant, and Biergarten in the heart of Oklahoma City. Founded by German business Jörg Kühne in 1992, Royal Bavaria offers a range of outstanding German-inspired beers, typical German cuisine, true Bavarian hospitality, and an authentic atmosphere in which to savor them all. Set on a five-acre property, the brewery was built to look like a Bavarian farmhouse and features an eight-barrel brewhouse, a large shady outdoor Biergarten that seats 175 people, and an inviting restaurant that serves authentic German fare. Signature brews include King’s Gold, a blonde low-hop quaffing Lagerbier; King’s Weizen, a mildly hopped wheat beer with a unique flavor; Dunkelweizen, a dark version of the regular golden-yellow Weissbier; and Oktoberfest (Märzen), a full-bodied, rich and toasty seasonal lager.

3401 S Sooner Rd, Oklahoma City, OK 73165, Phone: 405-799-7666

Anthem Brewing Company

Anthem Brewing Company

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Founded by brewer Matt Anthony who had a desire to create world-class beers that combined the Old World and the New, Anthem Brewing Company is an up-and-coming brewery that produces and sells a range of year-round and seasonal craft beers, ales and sours. Signature beers on tap include Golden One, a Belgian-style blonde ale with a fruit nose; Uroboros Stout; IPA India Pale Ale; Arjuna, a Belgian-style wheat ale; OK Pils, a German Pilsner; and Upper 90, a session IPA. These and other beers can be tasted in the modern tasting room, which is open Monday through Sunday, year-round. Anthem Brewing Company also hosts events such as social gatherings, live music, and private functions.

908 SW 4th St, Oklahoma City, OK 73109, Phone: 405-604-0446

Beavers Bend Brewery

Beavers Bend Brewery

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Beavers Bend Brewery was founded by three friends with a longtime dream of bringing top quality craft brewing to Southeastern Oklahoma. Established by Greg Campbell, Brad Reesing, and Steve Bartholomew, Beavers Bend Brewery brings more than 35 years of brewing experience to the taps with a variety of different styles of beers and ales, which can be sampled at the taproom or found at bars and restaurants around Broken Bow. Beavers Bend Brewery produces a range of both year-round and seasonal brews, such as Fleucy Creek Pale Ale, a pale blonde ale; Red Slough Amber; Hoppin’ Howlapeno Ale; LaterDude IPA; and Front Porch Peach Ale, fall pumpkin seasonal ale.

46 Coho Rd, Broken Bow, OK 74728, Phone: 580-494-3455

Belle Isle

Belle Isle

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Located in 50 Penn Place, Belle Isle is a lively restaurant and taproom that serves a selection of craft beers and ales, top-notch American food and hosts a variety of live entertainment. Harking back to a bygone era that echoes Oklahoma City in the early 1900s, Belle Isle is a favorite leisure spot that attracts both locals and visitors who come to enjoy the excellent homebrewed beer, delicious food, and lively entertainment. Craft beers on tap include American Brown Ale, Bell’s Blonde, Flanagan's Amber Ale, IPA, Marzen, Oatmeal Stout, Power House Porter, Pumpkin Beer, and Wild Mary’s Hefeweizen.

1900 Northwest Expy # 44R, Oklahoma City, OK 73118, Phone: 405-840-1911

Cabin Boys Brewery

Cabin Boys Brewery

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Located in the historic Kendall Whittier District in Tulsa, Cabin Boys Brewery was inspired by a log cabin in the woods, which was built by Jeff McIlroy and his son, who was further inspired build his brewery. Drawing further inspiration from the European style of brewing beer, Austin McIlroy and his friend Ryan Arnold founded the Cabin Boys brand of beer and constructed a 9,000 square foot brewery on the corner of 7th and Utica in the heart of Tulsa. Today, the brewery produces quality-driven ales in traditional styles with a splash of creativity, brewed with spices, fruits, and a touch of pizzazz, ranging from crisp and refreshing to complex and heavy bodied. Signature brews include Cornerstone Saison, Felix Et Tenebris, Bearded Theologian, and Huntsman IPA.

1717 E 7th St, Tulsa, OK 74104, Phone: 918-933-4033

COOP Ale Works

COOP Ale Works

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Another well-engrained brewery in Oklahoma City, COOP Ale Works is a craft brewery dedicated to brewing full flavor beers with the highest attention to quality. The locally owned and operated establishment produces a range of beers from the Mexican lager Horny Toad to the popular Territorial Reserve bourbon barrel series of imperial stouts, barley wines, and wheat wines. Visitors can taste the range of beer produced by COOP in the COOP Taproom, which is open to the public Wednesday through Saturday at various hours and offers 16 rotating beers on tap, including COOP’s annual lineup of favorites, as well as brewery-only releases like Cherry DNR and Spicy Hawaiian. Guests can purchase COOP on tap and in refrigerated cans, as well as various branded clothing, souvenirs, and other gear. Brewery tours are offered every Saturday on a first-come, first serve basis for up to 15 guests. The COOP Yard features a variety of outdoor entertainment such as bocce ball courts, cornhole, horseshoe pits, and picnic tables.

4745 Council Heights Rd, Oklahoma City, OK 73179, Phone: 405-842-2667

Dead Armadillo Craft Brewing

Dead Armadillo Craft Brewing

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Dead Armadillo Craft Brewing is a locally owned brewery that began offers a variety of year-round and seasonal craft ales. Named for a dead armadillo under a pile of lumber by owner and brewmaster, Tony Peck, Dead Armadillo Craft Brewing LLC was founded in 2011 and brewed their first batch of amber ale in 2013. The brewery was built in Tulsa in 2015, and the Dead Armadillo taproom officially opened a year later. Today, the brewery features full service operation from brewing to canning, producing beers such as Amber Ale, IPA, Breakaway APA, Inland Porter, Black Hop, and Tulsa Flag Pale Ale. The Dead Armadillo Craft Brewing also has an inviting beer garden and live music space where events are held throughout the year.

1004 E 4th St, Tulsa, OK 74120, Phone: 918-232-8627

Iron Monk Brewing Company

Iron Monk Brewing Company

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Iron Monk Brewing Company was the first craft brewery in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Boasting 30 years of combined brewing experience and a shared entrepreneurial spirit, the team began to produce exciting, local, handcrafted brews and have since grown in leaps and bounds. The brewery’s premier tap room was opened a year later to offer brewery tours and tastings of the excellent brews on tap and bottles, which include Velvet Antler, an easy-drinking, malt-forward American Amber Ale; Stilly Wheat, a crisp, refreshing, Belgian-style Wheat Ale; Exit 174 Rye Pale Ale, named after the I-35 exit to Stillwater; Chocolate Habanero, a favorite for the adventurous craft enthusiast; and Bright D. Weizensour, a one-off, small-batch sour wheat beer.

519 S Husband St, Stillwater, OK 74074, Phone: 405-714-2585

Marshall Brewing Company

Marshall Brewing Company

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Marshall Brewing Company was Tulsa’s first significant production brewery since World War II and produces some of the cleanest and well-crafted German-style ales and lagers to date. The established brewery boasts a 7,300-square-foot facility outside downtown Tulsa and provides over 2,000 US beer barrels a year. Marshall Brewing offers four year-round core beers, namely an India Pale Ale, an American-style wheat ale, an English bitter, and a North German-style pilsner, and is also renowned for its seasonal craft beers such as an India-style Black Ale (El Cucuy), a Munich Dunkel, and a German Hefeweizen (Klaus). Marshall Brewing Company beers are available throughout the state of Oklahoma, as well as in select locations in Arkansas, Missouri, and Kansas.

618 S Wheeling Ave, Tulsa, OK 74104, Phone: 918-292-8781

Pete's Place Restaurant

Pete's Place Restaurant

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Pete's Place Restaurant is a family-friendly restaurant serving traditional Italian cuisine and handcrafted beers and ales in a friendly and relaxed environment. The restaurant boasts several dining rooms where guests can tuck into hearty Italian fare such as wood-fired pizzas, handmade pasta, and sauces, crisp salads, entrées of prime meat and fresh seafood and decadent desserts. The restaurant has a full-service bar and an onsite brewery that produces a range of 12 handcrafted beers on draft and premium wines. The Choc Room, as the taproom is known, offers beers such as CHOC®, the original unfiltered wheat choc beer; Miner’s Golden Ale, a crisp American lager; Peach, a refreshing citrus brew; and Signature Dubbel, an award-winning lager.

120 Southwest 8th Street, Krebs, OK 74554, Phone: 918-423-2042

Roughtail Brewing Co.

Roughtail Brewing Co.

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Brewing out of Midwest City for the past four years, Roughtail Brewing Co. is made up of passionate craft beer lovers dedicated to producing delicious and aggressively hoppy beers in simple surroundings. Founded in 2013 and known for its American-style ales, Roughtail Brewing Company is the only brewery in the Oklahoma City metro with an attached tap house that serves their beers, as well as brews from other local breweries. Signature beers include the double IPA Hoptometrist; Everything Rhymes with Orange, a hazy, unfiltered IPA made with Simcoe hops; and the Little Blue Pils, Roughtail's take on the classic German Pils.

3333, 1279 N Air Depot Blvd, Oklahoma City, OK 73110, Phone: 405-771-6517

(405) Brewing Co., LLC

(405) Brewing Co., LLC

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(405) Brewing Co., LLC is a small, local brewery founded by Jonathan Stapleton and Trae Carson that produces a select range of handcrafted brews and ales. Located off Flood Avenue, in the 405, in Norman, Oklahoma, 405 Brewing Co. is based in an industrial-style warehouse with high ceilings which houses large boiling pots and fermenters, stacked kegs of the duo’s first commercial batch of FDR Imperial Coffee Stout, and a corner lounge where the team can relax. Signature beers from the brewery include Little Heart Breaker (405 Spring Stout), a dry, English-style brown ale called 405 Brown, and a Grapefruit Sour, among others. 405 beers are available on tap at a variety of bars and restaurants in the area, well as other locations in Tulsa and Lawton.

1716 Topeka St, Norman, OK 73069

American Solera

American Solera

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Recently hailed as America’s best new brewery, Tulsa’s American Solera is an addition to the brewery’s current tap room in west Tulsa, which offers a relaxed gathering space for people to come and enjoy great beer and a laid-back ambiance. Located at the corner of 18th Street and Boston Avenue, the brewery, which is owned by world-renowned brewer Chase Healy, features colossal oak foeders, which dominate the space, and produces hazy IPAs, roasty maple stouts, and sour wild ales, such as A Crushable American Lager, My Brother is my Brother, Good Berry, Samison, This is Not a Scam, and Passion Foo. American Solera is open every week from Wednesday to Saturday for tastings.

1801 S 49th W Ave, Tulsa, OK 74107, Phone: 918-949-4318

Stonecloud Brewing Company

Stonecloud Brewing Company

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Founded by Joel Irby with the goal of bringing bold, progressive, neo-American beer styles to Oklahoma, Stonecloud Brewing Company produces big juicy hop bombs, experimental barrel-aged sours, and other creative brews. The name for the brewery was Inspired by the spectacular beauty of the Colorado mountains, where owner Joel spent many years climbing and exploring, and it is set in the historic Sunshine Laundry Cleaners building at NW 1st and Classen on the West side of downtown OKC. Initially built in 1929, the structure provided industrial services to much of the city, and now serves as a gathering space for the community to come and savor great beer, good food, and a relaxed, laid-back ambiance.

1012 NW 1st St Suite 101, Oklahoma City, OK 73106, Phone: 405-602-3966

The Patriarch

The Patriarch

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Based in a historic three-story house in Edmond, The Patriarch is a brewery that produces a range of all-American craft beer bar, with 48 taps of the finest local and national breweries' ales, lagers, saisons, blondes, wheat, stouts, and sours. Fondly known as 'The Hunt House' by the local community, The Patriarch has been transformed into an inviting space where visitors can taste handcrafted brews from a walk-up window, enjoy great food from a permanent food truck port on an outdoor patio, and relax over outdoor games in the courtyard. An ever-changing menu of year-round and seasonal beers include Elevator Wheat, Steel Beach Picnic, All Day IPA, White Rascal, Beerito, Mega Fortunate Islands, and Arjuna.

9 E. Edwards Street, Edmond, OK 73034, Phone: 405-285-6670