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Coppertail Brewing Co.
2601 E 2nd Ave
Tampa, Florida, 33605-5503
United States
(813) 247-1500 | map
coppertailbrewing.com
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Rated by PA-Michigander from Pennsylvania
4.03/5 rDev -6.3%
vibe: 4.25 | quality: 4 | service: 3.75 | selection: 4.25
Jul 23, 2017
4.03/5 rDev -6.3%
vibe: 4.25 | quality: 4 | service: 3.75 | selection: 4.25
Jul 23, 2017
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by robotic_being from Illinois
4.2/5 rDev -2.3%
vibe: 3.75 | quality: 4.25 | service: 4 | selection: 4.5 | food: 4.25
4.2/5 rDev -2.3%
vibe: 3.75 | quality: 4.25 | service: 4 | selection: 4.5 | food: 4.25
The space is very large inside as well they have patio seating. No TV, just music and raucous conversations, it does get loud from the echo but it's visual decor is eclectic and thematic, tons of vintage found objects. They have a bunch of sour beers and hazy New England's as well light beers and stouts. Nice food selection and homemade sausage. Very cool brewery and well worth the visit.
May 01, 2021Reviewed by matt_chsi from Florida
5/5 rDev +16.3%
vibe: 5 | quality: 5 | service: 5 | selection: 5
5/5 rDev +16.3%
vibe: 5 | quality: 5 | service: 5 | selection: 5
I have been drinking Unholy for around 5 years and it is one of my favorite beers. The only thing I wish they would go back to bottles instead of cans.
Dec 25, 2020Reviewed by Billolick from New York
4.15/5 rDev -3.5%
vibe: 4.25 | quality: 4 | service: 4.25 | selection: 4.25 | food: 4
4.15/5 rDev -3.5%
vibe: 4.25 | quality: 4 | service: 4.25 | selection: 4.25 | food: 4
Tampa heavy hitting brewery that is well worth a visit...10-15 mins from the airport
Large, robust and busy spot, indoor bar and eating area with a merchandise store to the left and brewery equipment behind the bar...knowledgable and professional staff.....multiple quality tap options, cans and bottles available for on site consumption or to go...pretty typical food options sandwedges/burgers/fish tacos/salads. Add a nice but smaller out door eating/drinking area and what you have is a fun place to visit for a few quality pints and a bite to eat. Large enough to comfortably handle a larger group.
May 09, 2020Large, robust and busy spot, indoor bar and eating area with a merchandise store to the left and brewery equipment behind the bar...knowledgable and professional staff.....multiple quality tap options, cans and bottles available for on site consumption or to go...pretty typical food options sandwedges/burgers/fish tacos/salads. Add a nice but smaller out door eating/drinking area and what you have is a fun place to visit for a few quality pints and a bite to eat. Large enough to comfortably handle a larger group.
Reviewed by SunTzu from Tennessee
4.3/5 rDev 0%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 4.25 | service: 4.25 | selection: 4.25 | food: 4.5
4.3/5 rDev 0%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 4.25 | service: 4.25 | selection: 4.25 | food: 4.5
Incredible place. In an old industrial area in Ybor City, this is a repurposed warehouse. Great artwork, upstairs, downstairs, patio and deck. Very cool. Tours are a lot of fun and the food is delicious.
Apr 24, 2018Reviewed by YborEast from Florida
4.73/5 rDev +10%
vibe: 5 | quality: 5 | service: 4 | selection: 5
4.73/5 rDev +10%
vibe: 5 | quality: 5 | service: 4 | selection: 5
Probably the best brew space/facility in the Tampa Bay area, spacious, with high ceilings and a mezzanine in what was originally the Hellman's mayonnaise factory in the industrial district adjacent to Ybor City. Coppertail recently added a restaurant partner on site with interesting, creative bar eats that are very good. Can't say enough about this place, the vibe is off the charts.
Feb 20, 2018Reviewed by Tilley4 from Tennessee
4.31/5 rDev +0.2%
vibe: 4.25 | quality: 4 | service: 4.5 | selection: 4.5
4.31/5 rDev +0.2%
vibe: 4.25 | quality: 4 | service: 4.5 | selection: 4.5
Funky little place with a wide selection of house made beers and a couple of nice guest taps... I had a flight of their beers and enjoyed all of them. Great sours and a really nice imperial stout... I ordered the Schnitzel BLT and it was very good. Maybe the best tater tots I've ever had.... Great place that I would frequent if I lived close...
Feb 17, 2018Rated by Jim_Rich from Florida
4.73/5 rDev +10%
vibe: 5 | quality: 5 | service: 5 | selection: 4
4.73/5 rDev +10%
vibe: 5 | quality: 5 | service: 5 | selection: 4
Good Beer, too many choices
Dec 27, 2016Reviewed by slander from New York
4.41/5 rDev +2.6%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 4.5 | service: 4.25 | selection: 4.5 | food: 4.25
4.41/5 rDev +2.6%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 4.5 | service: 4.25 | selection: 4.5 | food: 4.25
Down in Flowida doing dare I say ‘vacationlike things’ with J & D, and they are most hospitable to my beer whimsy-ings. Saw the sun, that was fun, but now we’re down from Tarpon and out in Tampa for drink and food. It took a bit of doing, and by that I mean, arguing about how to get out here, but we calibrated and recalibrated. Hey, what ever happened to that guy from Flying Fish, I wonder…
Giant standalone space, entered into the tasting room. ‘L’ shaped, pieced plank sturdy wood bar, horizontal and vertical wood pieced base, & and a railroad tie foot rail (haven’t seen that one before); seating for 24 on hightop metal stools. Drop single bulb lighting tracing the bar. Barback holds a 20 tap barbell on stainless steel, with growlers countered to the left, and glassware to the right and shelved below. A 3 panel board horizontal sits above the barback listing merch and beer (name, style, ABV, pricing for 4oz, 12oz, 16oz, and growls 32oz, 64oz, & I’d swear they had pricing for 128oz growls when I was down a year or three ago), each and all where applicable.
The Core 4 are listed above (Unholy, American Tripel, 9.2%, great Belgian esters; Free Dive, IPA, 5.9%, nice bite, hoppy hoppy; Night Swim, Porter, 6%; roasty & chocolatey; Wheat Stroke, American Wheat Ale, 5%), and at least a dozen rotating beers below (Weequasher, Sour Session IPA, 4.8%, good easy drinking sour; Pinky Swear, pink lemonade Floridaweisse, 3.5%, like the tartest pink lemonade ever; Big Rons Pils, Pilsner, 5.5%, clean, hoppy pils; Hopoccino, IPA w/Buddy Brew coffee, 5.9%; Baby Genius, Gose, 3.5%, good gose, yo; Seasonal Relief, Baltic Porter, 8.5%; Dangerous Frank, Berliner Weisse, 3.5%, beauty berliner; Cherry Chocolate Porter, just that, 6.2%, ‘Amazing’, say Dena; Capt’n Jack’s, Stone Crab Stout, 8.3%, briny, + a very nice double IPA and a Guava something berliner of awesome). The Weequasher, Pinky Swear, Big Rons Pils, Baby Genius, Dangerous Frank, Capt’n Jack’s, Stone Crab Stout were the best of ‘em, but there’s not a bad beer here.
J&D opted for the sun, as in, to sit outside in it, while I went on walkabout. Large windows behind the bar with brew room views. Brick & cinderblock space with lots of reclaimed wood, and concrete floors. A dozen and a half tables, high & low mismatched. Corner confessional and the pipe organ drawing. Copper colored pressed tin ceiling piece mounted on the far wall with an octopus drawing exudes a certain badassedness about it. Other pieces of art, retro, nautical, and more, and lots of red iron.
Upstairs event space and lookout over the brewhouse and survey all that is yours, or Casey’s anyway. Small ‘L’ marble bar with seating for a handful, and a bunch of tables riddled about. Light art, very nicely done. Took a quick tour and saw the space, and what they’re looking to grow into. Old coaster displays and defunct brewery crates in the walkway.
Returned about a year later on a Sunday post Yankees victory and the place is jamming. Set up at the bar with some local beer traveler people. They have seen a lot of Florida; we may be trading stories. I may have more to tell, true. What’s new on tap? Well, a lot, actually and I sampled a good bunch of ‘em. Standouts (Silver Bar, hoppy Pils, 5.5%, solid Pils; Slam Piece, a cucumber Floridaweisse, 3.5%, the absolute jam and best of goddamn show; Sometimes You Don’t, porter with cocoa nibs, vanilla, & coconut, 6.2%, a mounds bar in a glass, lovely; Passionfruit HRIS, a Belgo style rice beer with passionfruit, 5.2%). Hey, food trucks, nice addition.
And again last year. Casey gave us the runaround, expanded into that side space strong and now a kitchen (tacos and tots, hello!) Beers were solid as usual and they’ve got a good mix of guest taps. Looking forward for another spin when I head down in May.
Dec 26, 2016Giant standalone space, entered into the tasting room. ‘L’ shaped, pieced plank sturdy wood bar, horizontal and vertical wood pieced base, & and a railroad tie foot rail (haven’t seen that one before); seating for 24 on hightop metal stools. Drop single bulb lighting tracing the bar. Barback holds a 20 tap barbell on stainless steel, with growlers countered to the left, and glassware to the right and shelved below. A 3 panel board horizontal sits above the barback listing merch and beer (name, style, ABV, pricing for 4oz, 12oz, 16oz, and growls 32oz, 64oz, & I’d swear they had pricing for 128oz growls when I was down a year or three ago), each and all where applicable.
The Core 4 are listed above (Unholy, American Tripel, 9.2%, great Belgian esters; Free Dive, IPA, 5.9%, nice bite, hoppy hoppy; Night Swim, Porter, 6%; roasty & chocolatey; Wheat Stroke, American Wheat Ale, 5%), and at least a dozen rotating beers below (Weequasher, Sour Session IPA, 4.8%, good easy drinking sour; Pinky Swear, pink lemonade Floridaweisse, 3.5%, like the tartest pink lemonade ever; Big Rons Pils, Pilsner, 5.5%, clean, hoppy pils; Hopoccino, IPA w/Buddy Brew coffee, 5.9%; Baby Genius, Gose, 3.5%, good gose, yo; Seasonal Relief, Baltic Porter, 8.5%; Dangerous Frank, Berliner Weisse, 3.5%, beauty berliner; Cherry Chocolate Porter, just that, 6.2%, ‘Amazing’, say Dena; Capt’n Jack’s, Stone Crab Stout, 8.3%, briny, + a very nice double IPA and a Guava something berliner of awesome). The Weequasher, Pinky Swear, Big Rons Pils, Baby Genius, Dangerous Frank, Capt’n Jack’s, Stone Crab Stout were the best of ‘em, but there’s not a bad beer here.
J&D opted for the sun, as in, to sit outside in it, while I went on walkabout. Large windows behind the bar with brew room views. Brick & cinderblock space with lots of reclaimed wood, and concrete floors. A dozen and a half tables, high & low mismatched. Corner confessional and the pipe organ drawing. Copper colored pressed tin ceiling piece mounted on the far wall with an octopus drawing exudes a certain badassedness about it. Other pieces of art, retro, nautical, and more, and lots of red iron.
Upstairs event space and lookout over the brewhouse and survey all that is yours, or Casey’s anyway. Small ‘L’ marble bar with seating for a handful, and a bunch of tables riddled about. Light art, very nicely done. Took a quick tour and saw the space, and what they’re looking to grow into. Old coaster displays and defunct brewery crates in the walkway.
Returned about a year later on a Sunday post Yankees victory and the place is jamming. Set up at the bar with some local beer traveler people. They have seen a lot of Florida; we may be trading stories. I may have more to tell, true. What’s new on tap? Well, a lot, actually and I sampled a good bunch of ‘em. Standouts (Silver Bar, hoppy Pils, 5.5%, solid Pils; Slam Piece, a cucumber Floridaweisse, 3.5%, the absolute jam and best of goddamn show; Sometimes You Don’t, porter with cocoa nibs, vanilla, & coconut, 6.2%, a mounds bar in a glass, lovely; Passionfruit HRIS, a Belgo style rice beer with passionfruit, 5.2%). Hey, food trucks, nice addition.
And again last year. Casey gave us the runaround, expanded into that side space strong and now a kitchen (tacos and tots, hello!) Beers were solid as usual and they’ve got a good mix of guest taps. Looking forward for another spin when I head down in May.
Rated by Lew904 from Florida
4.75/5 rDev +10.5%
vibe: 4.75 | quality: 4.75 | service: 4.75 | selection: 4.75
4.75/5 rDev +10.5%
vibe: 4.75 | quality: 4.75 | service: 4.75 | selection: 4.75
Just an awesome vibe and great beer.
Sep 12, 2016Reviewed by clayrock81 from Florida
4/5 rDev -7%
vibe: 4 | quality: 4 | service: 4 | selection: 4
4/5 rDev -7%
vibe: 4 | quality: 4 | service: 4 | selection: 4
Went on a Saturday afternoon and place was packed but quick and easy to get a beer. Have a good selection of their own beers and a few guest taps as well. Enjoyed my time there and plenty of seating in a big space so worth the visit if you're a local or a tourist like me.
Aug 18, 2016Rated by WeCameAsKillers from Florida
5/5 rDev +16.3%
vibe: 5 | quality: 5 | service: 5 | selection: 5
5/5 rDev +16.3%
vibe: 5 | quality: 5 | service: 5 | selection: 5
By far one of the best breweries in the Tampa area, and most of Florida
Jun 16, 2016Reviewed by PapaGoose03 from Michigan
4.07/5 rDev -5.3%
vibe: 4 | quality: 4 | service: 4 | selection: 4.25
4.07/5 rDev -5.3%
vibe: 4 | quality: 4 | service: 4 | selection: 4.25
This is stop #4 of 14 brewpubs for my wife and I on this one week vacation and pub crawl. We stopped here just to try their beers, but we were on a tight schedule so that our visit here had to be short, and that was a problem. We liked the beer and the place so that we didn't want to leave, but we did with the hopes that we'd find time to come back the next day. Unfortunately that didn't work either. Maybe next year.
We chose 4 beers on a sampler flight of the 19 beers that were available. It was a very nice selection that included 2 Berliners, 1 Gose, 4 Saisons, 3 IPAs, 1 DIPA, 1 Pils, 1 Porter, 1 Stout and 1 Brett Saison, in addition to the brewery's 4 core beers. There is something here for everyone. The Mi Bicicleta Gose was the most notable. It is brewed to mimic a Margarita, and they nailed it! There were 6-pack bottles of the core beers for sale to-go in a cooler.
The vibe was nice here while sitting at the bar and looking through the windows into the brewery. A return trip is a must-do next year.
May 27, 2016We chose 4 beers on a sampler flight of the 19 beers that were available. It was a very nice selection that included 2 Berliners, 1 Gose, 4 Saisons, 3 IPAs, 1 DIPA, 1 Pils, 1 Porter, 1 Stout and 1 Brett Saison, in addition to the brewery's 4 core beers. There is something here for everyone. The Mi Bicicleta Gose was the most notable. It is brewed to mimic a Margarita, and they nailed it! There were 6-pack bottles of the core beers for sale to-go in a cooler.
The vibe was nice here while sitting at the bar and looking through the windows into the brewery. A return trip is a must-do next year.
Reviewed by The_Snow_Bird from Michigan
4.71/5 rDev +9.5%
vibe: 4 | quality: 4.5 | service: 5 | selection: 5
4.71/5 rDev +9.5%
vibe: 4 | quality: 4.5 | service: 5 | selection: 5
Has a great atmosphere, tons of beer available on tap. They offer sample sizes up to 64oz growler fills. Able to see the whole brewery from inside the tasting room. I would really recommend this place.
May 05, 2016Reviewed by FrancisSmooth from Florida
4.1/5 rDev -4.7%
vibe: 4.25 | quality: 4 | service: 4.25 | selection: 4
4.1/5 rDev -4.7%
vibe: 4.25 | quality: 4 | service: 4.25 | selection: 4
Beautiful facility. Definitley can tell a lot of money has been put in. Cool vibe but a little cold feeling, I think it was the high ceilings. Beers are tasty, but no food in the area.
Apr 21, 2016Rated by valrxman from Florida
3.31/5 rDev -23%
vibe: 3.75 | quality: 3.25 | service: 3.5 | selection: 3
3.31/5 rDev -23%
vibe: 3.75 | quality: 3.25 | service: 3.5 | selection: 3
First time rating but I love going here. Always fresh bottles in the cooler and a wide variety on tap.
Cheers
Mar 16, 2016Cheers
Coppertail Brewing Co. in Tampa, FL
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