Escape Brewing Company
11495 Trinity Blvd
Trinity, Florida, 34655-4552
United States
(727) 569-7804 | map
escapebrewingcompany.com
The journey of Escape Brewing Company began many years ago with a brew kit and a passion for craft beer. What started off as a hobby, quickly became an obsession for making beer.
Our Founders, John McGregor and Matt Thompson, set their sights on opening a brewery in the area they call home, Trinity, FL. Just a short 35 minute drive north from Tampa you is where you will find Escape Brewing Company has laid its roots.
In 2014 Escape Brewing Company opened its doors as a small craft brewery. It started off brewing on a 3BBL Electric Brewhouse, (4) 3BBL Fermentation Vessels, (1) 3BBL Brite Tank, and a handful of Escape Beers on tap in a 1,200 sq/ft Taproom and Brewery.
Over the next couple of years, Escape will add several more beers to the tap list, won a couple of medals for their IPAs, Sours and Desserts Stouts at the Best Florida Beer Competition, took home a Silver Medal at GABF and slowly added a few more fermentation vessels to keep up with demand. Escape could not have done this without hiring some awesome employees to help them grow and continue to meet some amazing people in their community.
Fast forward to late 2016, Escape Brewing Company expands the Taproom and Brewery to 2,400 sq/ft, adds a 3,000 sq/ft warehouse a few miles away for offsite storage and purchases a 10BBL Brewhouse with additional capacity to keep up with the demand for the Taproom and Distribution.
Escape Brewing Company now has the capacity to produce just over 1,800+ BBLs per year in a 2,400 sq/ft Taproom and Brewery. We pump out a lot of beer in a tiny space. It’s takes a lot of hard work and dedication from our team to be able to produce high quality Ales and Lagers out of a tiny space with lots of challenges but our team grinds it out each day because it is what they love to do. Make Beer.
Controlling growth has allowed Escape Brewing Company to continue to make the beers they like to drink without sacrificing creativity and quality. Escape continues to grow the brand organically to ensure they remain focused on why they started brewing beer in the first place: To be creative, challenge the status quo and to brew full flavored, well balanced Ales & Lagers.
Escape Brewing Company was founded on the principles of creating a brewery that is embraced and valued by their community, committed to their customers, all while using the finest and best ingredients possible, and to have the passion and drive of brewing beer they are proud of.
Lots of blood, sweat and tears have been poured into Escape Brewing Company. The crazy dream of opening and running a brewery is alive and well.
John and Matt both started brewing beer in their garages as a way to "Escape" from their corporate sales jobs. It didn't take long for them to figure out that their true passion was making beer. What started off as a hobby quickly turned to a full on obsession of making beer.
They both decided to "Escape" corporate America, quit their day jobs, live the American Dream, and open a brewery.
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Reviewed by WillieThreebiers from Connecticut
4.39/5 rDev -0.2%
vibe: 4.25 | quality: 4.25 | service: 4.5 | selection: 4.5
4.39/5 rDev -0.2%
vibe: 4.25 | quality: 4.25 | service: 4.5 | selection: 4.5
Modern sheet steel building, housing the brewery, taproom, food hall, and a cocktail bar in what looks like the early stages of a mixed used community. Spacious high-ceilings give taproom an expansive feel with a large glass wall showcasing the brewhouse. There is an L-shaped bar that seats about 20 some tables about the room and a patio on the left side of the bar. 18 beers on tap, single cans to go. Friendly, knowledgeable bartenders.
Mar 24, 2026
Reviewed by clayrock81 from Florida
4.07/5 rDev -7.5%
vibe: 4 | quality: 4 | service: 4.25 | selection: 4
4.07/5 rDev -7.5%
vibe: 4 | quality: 4 | service: 4.25 | selection: 4
Went on a Saturday afternoon and it was low-key chill but a good vibe; good tunes were on, service was great and the pizza place next door that brought over food was good, too. Had a couple IPAs that were solid while the wife really enjoyed her stout, and they have more than just IPAs and stouts as they seemed to try to represent various beer styles on the dozen or so taps they still had. If you are in the area then this place is definitely worth a stop.
Jan 18, 2022
Reviewed by slander from New York
4.18/5 rDev -5%
vibe: 4.25 | quality: 4.25 | service: 4 | selection: 4.25
4.18/5 rDev -5%
vibe: 4.25 | quality: 4.25 | service: 4 | selection: 4.25
Only midway through this trip and have seen plenty. Another Flowida town, another brewery in a strip mall on the way back from another brewery in another strip mall. just a guess here but I’m thinking it must be the place with the 3 hops logo above the door. Tinted front windows as they do down here, taking up a double wide space…
In the center of the space sits a bar in between what would be rooms if there were still a wall dividing them. Hook shaped worn gray painted concrete topped with a horizontal plank base. Seating for 14 squared stooled, 7 & 7 on 2 sides, and nothing on the tail. The barback is a cold box with chalkboard exteriors listing tap selections (beer, style, ABV, serving sizes, & pricing for standard, shorty, & growls where applicable), plus wines, cider, & snacks listed. 14 taps on a stainless panel row with non-descript handles.
(I've clipped the whole piece on atmosphere as they’ve moved to a new facility and this is valuable real estate in character count).
13 beers up just now; 11 house beers and 2 guest taps (Green Bench Sunshine City IPA & Florida Ave Brewing Neopolitan Berliner). I sampled or shortied through roughly 2/3 of the house beers (Diversion IPA, 7%, meh, a bit more malt forward than I’m looking for; The Other West Coast, IPA, 7.1%, a solid IPA; Scandalous Double IPA, 9%, it’s just that, doesn’t seem to pack like the 9% it is, but damn; Goofy Footed Wheat Ale, 5.5%, slight citrus, a nice wheat ale; FoShizzle, Imperial Sweet Stout with Coconut & Cinnamon, 10%, Oooofta!; Juiced Up, Berliner with red dragonfruit, passionfruit, orange, & lemon, 4.5%; prominent red dragongfruit & passionfruit, me thinks, tasty; Five Flags, Pils, 5%, seemed more like a Kolsch than a Pils but was pleasant just the same; Brown Chicken Brown Cow, Brown Ale, 5.5%, very good Brown Ale, chocolate, and I’m not sure but I think I’m getting star of anise). The Other West Coast IPA, Scandalous Double IPA, & Brown Chicken Brown Cow for the wins.
Yep, it’s a chill Sunday. Decent crowd, good tunes, and a few beers with friends.
**** and updated now 6 years later****
Down for Jed’s surprise 60th (his turning 60 was not a surprise to him, but rather my appearance there). We played to the south yesterday, today, we’re heading east some. Second stop, a whole .6 of a mile from the last place. Of course, Jed missed the turn because he said he didn’t hear it being told to him (due to his being, you know, old). Standalone off of Trinity, on the backside of 54. Now part of a collective, being a food hall and all…
Spacious space, enter and through to the rear. ‘C’ shaped concrete topped bar with a panel base. Seating for a dozen and a half on black leather steel chairs. Bar island holds a 20 logo tap stainless tower split 10 & 10 and booze on both ends, over glassware shelved below. Jockey boxes tucked behind with wine fronting the wall of panel windows looking in on the brewery.
Polished concrete floors, and a black angled corrugated slanted ceiling with ducts, drop spot cylinders & cluster 8-tube chandeliers. Far wall of horizontal slats to both sides of a center ESCAPE mural piece, and the wall painted off-white otherwise around the forward panel windows and the 2 roll up doors to the outside space. Large flats on all walls; there, there, & there doubled (me, pointing). Medals framed near the entrance and merch & a can cooler corner to the far side. 15 tables mix & match; shorty squares & recs, long shared hightops + 10 chairs on the front window ledge.
And on walkabout, the outdoor space on artificial turf, penned with strung lighting. 9 picnics umbrella’d up in 3 rows of 3 + sets of Adirondack chairs forward near a small concrete pad for band play, maybe. And cornhole for the play.
13 beers up, dealt in 4oz, 8oz, & 16oz serving sizes. I dodged most things hoppy and got into nearly everything else through shorty & sampler, true (Five Flags Pilsner, Other, 5%, I don’t know what they mean by ‘Other’ in defining the style, but it was a crisp, with a little citrus to it; Thursday Chugs, Czech Pils, 5.5%, Sweet, malt, okay, but I liked the Five Flags Pils better; Flucht, Marzen, 5.5%; malty goodness love, damn!; The Collective, American Lager, 4.2%, has some slight fruitiness to it, easy drinker, quite good; The Other West Coast, American IPA, 7%, a solid IPA, floral, citrus, bitter, win; Brown Chicken Brown Cow, Brown Ale, 5.5%, malty good, chocolate & coffee notes). I’m thinking Marzen, The Other West Coast IPA, & Brown Chicken Brown Cow Brown Ale for the wins. 2 of those I named as bests of show on my visit 6 years back, by the way.
Beers were solid, I could do a session here. Justintender today, nice kid. He gave me beer when I asked for it. Nice, shiny new place with a 6 stall food hall and a cocktail bar. There’s a good thing happening here.
Jun 01, 2020In the center of the space sits a bar in between what would be rooms if there were still a wall dividing them. Hook shaped worn gray painted concrete topped with a horizontal plank base. Seating for 14 squared stooled, 7 & 7 on 2 sides, and nothing on the tail. The barback is a cold box with chalkboard exteriors listing tap selections (beer, style, ABV, serving sizes, & pricing for standard, shorty, & growls where applicable), plus wines, cider, & snacks listed. 14 taps on a stainless panel row with non-descript handles.
(I've clipped the whole piece on atmosphere as they’ve moved to a new facility and this is valuable real estate in character count).
13 beers up just now; 11 house beers and 2 guest taps (Green Bench Sunshine City IPA & Florida Ave Brewing Neopolitan Berliner). I sampled or shortied through roughly 2/3 of the house beers (Diversion IPA, 7%, meh, a bit more malt forward than I’m looking for; The Other West Coast, IPA, 7.1%, a solid IPA; Scandalous Double IPA, 9%, it’s just that, doesn’t seem to pack like the 9% it is, but damn; Goofy Footed Wheat Ale, 5.5%, slight citrus, a nice wheat ale; FoShizzle, Imperial Sweet Stout with Coconut & Cinnamon, 10%, Oooofta!; Juiced Up, Berliner with red dragonfruit, passionfruit, orange, & lemon, 4.5%; prominent red dragongfruit & passionfruit, me thinks, tasty; Five Flags, Pils, 5%, seemed more like a Kolsch than a Pils but was pleasant just the same; Brown Chicken Brown Cow, Brown Ale, 5.5%, very good Brown Ale, chocolate, and I’m not sure but I think I’m getting star of anise). The Other West Coast IPA, Scandalous Double IPA, & Brown Chicken Brown Cow for the wins.
Yep, it’s a chill Sunday. Decent crowd, good tunes, and a few beers with friends.
**** and updated now 6 years later****
Down for Jed’s surprise 60th (his turning 60 was not a surprise to him, but rather my appearance there). We played to the south yesterday, today, we’re heading east some. Second stop, a whole .6 of a mile from the last place. Of course, Jed missed the turn because he said he didn’t hear it being told to him (due to his being, you know, old). Standalone off of Trinity, on the backside of 54. Now part of a collective, being a food hall and all…
Spacious space, enter and through to the rear. ‘C’ shaped concrete topped bar with a panel base. Seating for a dozen and a half on black leather steel chairs. Bar island holds a 20 logo tap stainless tower split 10 & 10 and booze on both ends, over glassware shelved below. Jockey boxes tucked behind with wine fronting the wall of panel windows looking in on the brewery.
Polished concrete floors, and a black angled corrugated slanted ceiling with ducts, drop spot cylinders & cluster 8-tube chandeliers. Far wall of horizontal slats to both sides of a center ESCAPE mural piece, and the wall painted off-white otherwise around the forward panel windows and the 2 roll up doors to the outside space. Large flats on all walls; there, there, & there doubled (me, pointing). Medals framed near the entrance and merch & a can cooler corner to the far side. 15 tables mix & match; shorty squares & recs, long shared hightops + 10 chairs on the front window ledge.
And on walkabout, the outdoor space on artificial turf, penned with strung lighting. 9 picnics umbrella’d up in 3 rows of 3 + sets of Adirondack chairs forward near a small concrete pad for band play, maybe. And cornhole for the play.
13 beers up, dealt in 4oz, 8oz, & 16oz serving sizes. I dodged most things hoppy and got into nearly everything else through shorty & sampler, true (Five Flags Pilsner, Other, 5%, I don’t know what they mean by ‘Other’ in defining the style, but it was a crisp, with a little citrus to it; Thursday Chugs, Czech Pils, 5.5%, Sweet, malt, okay, but I liked the Five Flags Pils better; Flucht, Marzen, 5.5%; malty goodness love, damn!; The Collective, American Lager, 4.2%, has some slight fruitiness to it, easy drinker, quite good; The Other West Coast, American IPA, 7%, a solid IPA, floral, citrus, bitter, win; Brown Chicken Brown Cow, Brown Ale, 5.5%, malty good, chocolate & coffee notes). I’m thinking Marzen, The Other West Coast IPA, & Brown Chicken Brown Cow Brown Ale for the wins. 2 of those I named as bests of show on my visit 6 years back, by the way.
Beers were solid, I could do a session here. Justintender today, nice kid. He gave me beer when I asked for it. Nice, shiny new place with a 6 stall food hall and a cocktail bar. There’s a good thing happening here.
Rated by KurtBrust from Florida
5/5 rDev +13.6%
vibe: 5 | quality: 5 | service: 5 | selection: 5
5/5 rDev +13.6%
vibe: 5 | quality: 5 | service: 5 | selection: 5
Love this place! Great people, Great owners, Great Beer!
Mar 26, 2015
Rated by IrrelevantFan from Florida
4.5/5 rDev +2.3%
4.5/5 rDev +2.3%
Nice clean little nano brew house run by a friendly group.
Dec 11, 2014
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