Dunedin Brewery

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Brewery, Bar, Eatery, Beer-to-go

937 Douglas Avenue
Dunedin, Florida, 34698
United States

(727) 736-0606 | map
dunedinbrewery.com
BEER STATS
Average:
3.75
Beers:
77
Ratings:
756
PLACE STATS
Average:
4.04
Reviews:
59
Ratings:
137
pDev:
11.14%
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Ratings by AtLagerHeads:
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Reviewed by AtLagerHeads from Ohio

3.95/5  rDev -2.2%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 4.5 | service: 3.5 | selection: 3.5 | food: 4
A very solid and entertaining stop in the Tampa Bay area, this little brewery is making a name in the area. Almost every quality beer store in the local market carries their bottled beer in singles.

This location has high celings with all the brewing equipment prominently displayed throughout the room. Great variety of beers both their own and others. Cramped parking areas.

The food here is limited to some bar grub but it is good. We tried their hummus and pita bread and loved it; very nice.

Nice small stage with good entertainment. Outside deck seating for smokers. Very reasonable pricing.
Jan 18, 2004
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Reviewed by gatornation from Arizona

4.25/5  rDev +5.2%
vibe: 4.25 | quality: 4.25 | service: 4.25 | selection: 4.25 | food: 4.25
Went on a sunny beautiful Wednesday afternoon. You walk up to an outside patio with several table. Inside bar and kitchen to the left, with plenty of seating in side. Had a few garage doors that could open to bring the outside in. Nice amount of brews and style on tap with chalkboard outside . Flights single in 50z available or pints. Attentive service food available and brought to table outside ,Nice great atmosphere and a free parking garage just a block away.
May 25, 2022
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Reviewed by clayrock81 from Florida

3.93/5  rDev -2.7%
vibe: 4 | quality: 3.75 | service: 4 | selection: 4 | food: 4
Went on a busy Friday night and thankfully found a section in the back bar that was laid back compared to the front (which was rockin' due to a nice house band). Beer selection has good quantity and styles to choose from (and the ones I had weren't bad) albeit they have a couple funky dessert beers that you may love or hate (your preference). Food is a little overpriced but it is real good (and at time of night we went was much welcomed). No complaints about place, one of the few places in Dunedin that seems to be for young people so that's a younger, "hipper" vibe you may or may not like; this place is worth checking out in my opinion.
Nov 11, 2019
 
Rated: 4.65 by Mike_Garber from Florida

Jul 04, 2019
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Rated by BrewsAtSea from Florida

5/5  rDev +23.8%
vibe: 5 | quality: 5 | service: 5 | selection: 5 | food: 5
Consistently solid IPAs and other american-style brews. Food and live music great too.
May 12, 2018
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Reviewed by DoctorZombies from Florida

4.06/5  rDev +0.5%
vibe: 4 | quality: 4 | service: 4.5 | selection: 3.75 | food: 4
Small brewery with fairly diverse portfolio of on site brewed beers. Good vibe with plenty of seating including a patio with umbrellas. Small parking lot in front, and street parking along Douglas. The beers are ok to good, the food is good. A fine place to enjoy a burger and a local brew. Attentive and friendly bar/wait staff.
Mar 28, 2018
 
Rated: 4.75 by Beerbuddha from Florida

Dec 29, 2017
 
Rated: 3.75 by Alequine from Delaware

Sep 22, 2017
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Reviewed by slander from New York

4.13/5  rDev +2.2%
vibe: 3.75 | quality: 4 | service: 4.5 | selection: 4 | food: 4.25
This being J & D’s go-to, we’re in for lunch and drink. Conveniently located in a town of the same name, off the main route the next block up (turn when you see the Sun). Parked across the street in that weird lower lot ‘cause someone did a ‘Wisconsin special’ (that’s parking your big ass WI plated mobile home across multiple spots) in the parking lot. Fookers! Well, it’s not like I don’t need the exercise and we’ll be moving about town. With now more than a half dozen breweries about, there is a Dunedin scene to be seen…

Entrance is to the left of the 2 forward garage doors that open up into a rectangular room with an arched ceiling and concrete floors. Looooooong question mark shaped wood plank topped bar with a wide lip, diamond plate base, & a phat piping foot rail on the inside wall, but seating only on the hook for 8 on oval wooden slot stools of ass fit. The short part of the bar fronts the kitchen and taps and the long part fronts the brewery proper. Barback wall is done in yellow, green, & purple sectioned. Horizontal tap board listing beer & ABV over the peek-a-boo kitchen/grab your food zone, with shirts & swag around it, and dead soldier bottles lining the top. Just past there, 5 taps to each side of center extending from a vertical slat wood wall piece below a mirror for the looking at, plus a pair of cylinder 2’s on the off the bar, and a handpump on the end. Pieces above the bar; faux barrel ends with medals won, other brewery signage, more dead soldiers, a ‘No Sniveling’ sign, musical instruments, etc.

The brewery sits to the rear of the room. A sticker pasted tank and others draped with Scottish flaggings there. The red lion on a yellow background one sadly reminds me of the Grant’s Scottish Ale (you’re too young to know what I’m talking about). 3 table juts off the length of the barcounter with stools, plus 4 raised roundies and 2 booths. And a small stage area over there (me, pointing) in the corner. Music venue and brewery posters riddled about. We entered in and through as we do and out the back to the side porch, does that make any sense? 4 ovalish tables umbrella’d up there, penned, to keep the riff raff out. We will lunch and drink here.

So, beer. Over 3 years of annual late February visits, the terminology seems to have changed between ‘standard beers’, to ‘heritage beers’ to ‘core beers’, but I feel like I always see these 6 (Apricot Peach Ale, 6.2%, sweet sweet; Red Head Red Ale, 5.7%, an Irish Red, nicely fruity, sweet, I like; Pipers Pale Ale, a solid pale ale; Beach Tale Brown Ale, 5.5%, chocolatey, sure; Flashlight Lager, 5.2%, a pleasant Pils; American Classic IPA, 7%, 86’d of course, oh FFS, why is the IPA always kicked? Not just here, but in life.

And then upwards of a dozen seasonal & specialty beers up, too. Some repeat year over year and others one time or the other or another. The best of those have been the Leonard Croon’s Old Mean Stout, 7%, silky, licorice, oaty love; Fruits of Leisure, Wit with dragon and passion fruit, pink peppercorn, & orange peel, 5.2%, guava-like easy pink drinking; Raspberries in the Desert, stout aged on raspberries and red chili peppers, 7%, sweet raspberry up front and some nice pleasant heat on the back end; Saint Jambrinus, Abbey Dubbel, 6.8%, nice dubbel dryness; and Smoked Peanut Braemar Milk Stout, 5.5%, it’s strange but I like it.

Lest I forget to mention the handpump. I’ve seen the Leonard Croon’s Old Mean Stout on cask. Probably need to sample of the cask. Depending on the size of the beer, the drafts come in either 12oz or 16oz, and you can do shortys in 5oz or 8oz, and samplers, too.

And food. I had the smoked & pulled blackened chicken tacos (3) and traded up chips & salsa for tots. Theys was good tacos. Wanted wings too but it woulda been too much. Jed had the fish wrap and kept referring to it as ‘fish tacos’, we don’t know why, and said it was better than any burger you could’ve had. D had a fork & knife salad which was literally half a head of Romaine and then other stuff. She deemed it ‘very good’.

Next time out, I had the citrus marinated chicken Mahi Mahi sandwich, with roasted red pepper aioli, spinach, grilled scallions (king of all onions), on a toasted brioche bun. Again, trading up the chips & salsa for tots. It was a good goddamn sandwich. Jed had the west coast fish wrap, deemed excellent, and D had the Caesar salad with blackened chicken. Said she, “the lettuce was fresh, unlike what Chuck left us at the condo”.

Service is super attentive, like ‘super super’ and the food is always very good. I like going through the mix of beers, some are better than others. And they definitely do some crazy range beyond the core beers, although a bunch of the beers are grainy. Not necessarily in a bad way, just strangely ‘homebrewlike’. Still, I’ve had some fine offerings here. Florida’s first microbrewery is something to look in on.
Mar 29, 2017
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Reviewed by jwtroxell from Florida

4.34/5  rDev +7.4%
vibe: 4 | quality: 4 | service: 4.25 | selection: 5
My oh my can this place draw a crowd! This place got too big for it's building real quick. Most given nights, especially when a prestigious musical guest is having a free show, you will be very lucky to find standing room, much less breathing space. Terrific selection and great people, if only a bit densely packed!
Mar 03, 2017
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Reviewed by Kerghan from Florida

4.46/5  rDev +10.4%
vibe: 3.75 | quality: 4.75 | service: 4.5 | selection: 4.25 | food: 4.75
Live music is usually pretty terrible, but then again, I hate live music. Beer is always excellent. Food is always excellent. I usually hang out in the back room because it's quieter, and the servers are super nice
Feb 07, 2017
 
Rated: 4.1 by mortnoir from New York

Feb 04, 2017
 
Rated: 3.53 by TheWhaler from Florida

Jul 20, 2016
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Reviewed by illpass78 from Maine

5/5  rDev +23.8%
vibe: 5 | quality: 5 | service: 5 | selection: 5 | food: 5
Classic Florida roadhouse. Tons of their own beers on tap and good traditional bar food. The beers I had were kind of average, but they clearly know their stuff and have stood the test of time.
Jun 02, 2016
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Reviewed by SpoiledInVT from Vermont

3.74/5  rDev -7.4%
vibe: 4 | quality: 3.75 | service: 3.75 | selection: 3.5 | food: 4
Pretty solid spot if you want to sit outside in the sunshine, have a beer, and have some pretty good pub fare. Beer was nothing too wild, but it certainly was good. The selection is limited, but across the board there are enough styles to find something you will enjoy. Food was definitely good, as was the service.
Apr 08, 2016
 
Rated: 3.88 by shadyside from Georgia

Mar 19, 2016
 
Rated: 4.13 by Jason_cs from Florida

Mar 09, 2016
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Reviewed by scream from Wisconsin

4.01/5  rDev -0.7%
vibe: 4 | quality: 4.25 | service: 4 | selection: 3.75 | food: 4
Today was stop #4 in the last 2 wks. Usually just for a pint but today lunch as well. I like the fact that they open at 11AM whereas most other places not until 3 PM. If there were more variety to available brews I would rate it higher in the Quality and Selection categories.

No Tv which to me is a plus

3/22 2017 Back again today. I just like this place-especially the Mundofolbick on cask as delish as ever !
Feb 14, 2016
 
Rated: 3.75 by Gobzilla from California

Jan 23, 2016
 
Rated: 4.4 by Ironred88

Dec 08, 2015
 
Rated: 3.76 by jrb378 from Pennsylvania

Nov 01, 2015
 
Rated: 4.88 by rfd from Florida

Oct 24, 2015
 
Rated: 3.7 by JaredSammy from New York

Sep 12, 2015
 
Rated: 3.74 by davidanastas from Texas

Aug 18, 2015
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Reviewed by Beer4B from Florida

3.54/5  rDev -12.4%
vibe: 4 | quality: 3 | service: 3.75 | selection: 3.75
Pretty cool local spot with indoor and outdoor seating. They often bring in live music on the weekends. Not a huge tap selection but the few times I've been there were between 7-10 beers on tap.
The quality of beer isn't great, but you can find something you will enjoy. Unique interior that helps tell the story instead of some of the more typical industrial boxes.
Jul 24, 2015
 
Rated: 4.5 by Spock_Savage from Florida

Jul 12, 2015
 
Rated: 3.96 by RebornStussy from Ohio

Jul 03, 2015
 
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Rated by DuffDaddy from Florida

3.94/5  rDev -2.5%
vibe: 4.25 | quality: 4 | service: 3.5 | selection: 3.75 | food: 5
Great food, ok service and pretty good selection...really wished they had a porter or stout on tap....visiting Dunedin for the day with the fam.
Jun 01, 2015
 
Rated: 3.51 by Steban from North Carolina

May 16, 2015
 
Rated: 3.96 by InspectorBob from New Jersey

May 02, 2015
 
Rated: 4.11 by RobDB from New Jersey

Apr 30, 2015
 
Rated: 4.32 by ksbuell from Illinois

Apr 14, 2015
 
Rated: 3.55 by twb0392 from Wisconsin

Apr 13, 2015
 
Rated: 4.11 by markgugs from New Jersey

Mar 16, 2015
 
Rated: 4.2 by tommy5 from Michigan

Mar 01, 2015
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Rated by maxson924 from Florida

4.18/5  rDev +3.5%
vibe: 4 | quality: 4.75 | service: 3.75 | selection: 4
The venue itself was nothing special, but their beers certainly are. I didn't have any of the food so I can't comment on that.
Feb 28, 2015
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Reviewed by wabridges from North Carolina

3.4/5  rDev -15.8%
vibe: 4 | quality: 3.5 | service: 3 | selection: 3 | food: 4.5
There are several other breweries in the Tampa Bay area that are producing far better beer. This stands out because they serve decent pub food but if I just want a great beer I go elsewhere. The atmosphere is great.
Feb 11, 2015
 
Rated: 4.09 by citruscane from Florida

Jan 18, 2015
 
Rated: 4.08 by Jfishe13313 from Florida

Jan 17, 2015
Dunedin Brewery in Dunedin, FL
Brewery rating: 3.75 out of 5 with 756 ratings