Best-of list · Craft Beer
The best craft beer bars in Miami after the Wynwood shakeout, from the Abbey Brewing Company on Miami Beach to Miami Brewing out in Homestead.
The short answer
2 ranked rooms follow. How we picked is at the end of this guide.
Miami's Wynwood craft beer boom is mostly over. J. Wakefield, Wynwood Brewing and Concrete Beach have all shut their taprooms, and the rest of the old lists were taco stands and tequila bars wearing a beer label. Two real craft beer rooms still pour, ranked by what is in the glass. One sits on Miami Beach, the other a drive south. Honest beats padded.
The Abbey is Miami Beach's oldest brewpub, brewing its own since 1995 in a narrow room off Lincoln Road on 16th Street. The Trappist-style house beers carry it: Brother Aaron's Quadrupel, the Immaculate IPA, plus more than 150 bourbons behind the bar. Open daily until five in the morning, which makes it the rare beer room that doubles as a late-night refuge. Go off-season, grab a stool, order the Quad.
Miami Brewing pours its own beer out of a 10,000-square-foot taproom at Schnebly's winery in Homestead, well south of the city. The beers lean tropical and local, brewed with South Florida fruit, and there is cornhole, pool and live music in the room. It is a drive, not a walk, so make a day of it. Best on a Saturday afternoon when the taps and the patio are both full.