Best Breweries in St. Pete-Clearwater

You may have visited the very popular 3 Daughters brewery in St. Pete's Grand Central District. Now, you can get the same great brews with Gulf views! Enter 3 Daughters Brewing Clearwater Beach, which won the "No. 1 Brewery" award in St. Pete-Clearwater for 2024. 

Expect amazing views of Clearwater Beach from the rooftop tasting room and enjoy a variety of games, such as shuffleboard, ping pong and darts. This family-friendly brewery also offers live music every weekend and hosts special events such as trivia nights, community fundraisers and art classes. 

Sample a wide selection of craft beer, ranging from the popular Beach Blonde Ale, Florida Orange IPA and Rod Bender Red ale to stouts and porters, plus seasonal releases.  The tasting room has a pub-style menu available every day.

Community is important at Green Bench Brewing Co., with its spacious beer garden and tasting room where customers can relax and mingle over some of the lighter brews, such as Bench Life American-style light lager and Postcard Pils American-style pilsner, or hoppy offerings such as Skyway Hazy double IPA  and Sunshine IPA. 

In 2019, Green Bench opened Webb's City Cellar, a second tasting room next door that features barrel-aged wild ales, mixed-culture sour beers, ciders and meads. Webb's City Cellar was a 2024James Beard semi-finalist in the "Outstanding Bar" category. 

Both tasting rooms share the family-friendly beer garden, which hosts many events like yoga classes and community fundraisers such as the annual "Webbsminster Dog Show." 

Just off the Pinellas Trail in charming small-town Dunedin, HOB Brewing Company began in 2009 as a 250-square-foot beer bar with craft brews from all over the world on tap. Eventually, owners Andy Polce and Rick Clemo – longtime friends and avid homebrewers – decided to take the next step and make the business a true brewery. In 2019, HOB Brewing Company opened its doors, with a large outdoor patio and recreation area. 

The brewery offers 22 taps of their beers, such as the Mango Hefeweizen, Dunedin Orange Lager, Splashin' Around IPA and Butter Blonde. Check out their calendar of events, with "Live Music Sundays," trivia and bingo on other nights, and community fundraisers throughout the year.

What could be better than a few hours on beautiful St. Pete Beach followed by a refreshing craft brew? Mastry's Brewing Company is just the place to go after a day of sun and sand.

Brewed in a building that was once a tire shop, Mastry's beers are diverse, with everything from wheat beers to stouts, IPAS (both West Coast and New England styles), sour beers, porters and more. Ciders and wines are available, too, and any of it can be enjoyed inside the tasting room or outside in the beer garden. When you get hungry, order up some chicken wings, nachos and tacos. 

Depending on what day of the week you visit, you can enjoy live music, open mic or trivia night, and Mastry's also hosts events such as cooking classes, art classes and local vendor markets.

The expansive, 6,000-square-foot Crooked Thumb Brewery calls tiny downtown Safety Harbor home. Here, brewers craft a wide variety of beers such as Harbor Lite Lager, 757 Gold Ale, Shade Tree IPA and more. 

Crooked Thumb's biggest claim-to-fame, however, is its annual release of Rule #7 Hurricane Pale Ale, inspired by local TV meteorologist Denis Phillips, who created a list of seven “Hurricane Rules” to help viewers during the season. The first six are pretty standard warnings. But Rule #7?  “Stop freaking out... until I tell you to. We're fine."

On your visit, relax in the family-friendly beer garden shaded by a canopy of trees, while enjoying live music, yard games, trivia nights and other events. Grab a seat at a picnic table and play one of the board games from the collection inside and, on weekends, enjoy snacks or a meal from one of the local food vendors.