Craft Advisory Brewing

No brewer at the present time. So full tap list of other brewery beers, very few from Mississippi. Seem like a cool place to hang out, I hope they hire a brewer pretty quickly.

Craft Advisory Brewing & Bistro is right in the middle of everything on Government Street, adjacent to the food truck yard, in the ever-more-happening downtown entertainment and shopping district of the sometimes quaint, occasionally kitschy, more often beautiful and always interesting Mississippi Gulf Coastal town (and artists' colony) of Ocean Springs.

Inside, the single large room of the coastal casual Bistro contains a nice-sized bar, and high-top tables, all open to the micro-brewery, which fills the windows facing the street. There is a foosball table, and, apparently, a game of beer pong ready at any time. Branded merchandise is available.

Outside, the sizable courtyard has an eclectic collection of seating and umbrellas, for relaxed people watching on Government St.

There are about 15 Craft Advisory beers and seltzers on tap, with great variety on the tap wall, which on my visits included a light lager, two cream ales, a gose, the pelagic sour series with your choice of added fruit or other flavorings, two wheat beers, and a dark lager, four IPAs including a "black" IPA, and a couple of stouts and a bourbon-barrel aged maerzen. There are also several mostly regional guest beers and a cider on tap.

Craft Advisory will fill its own growlers, half-growlers, and pint cans for beer to go, and at reasonable prices.

Food menu is excellent gastropub, with southern touches and local shrimp dishes, as the Ocean Springs shrimp fleet harbor is less than a mile due south of the brewery. There is a children’s menu.

There is some (free) street parking, and a number of (free) city parking lots are nearby.