Your Next Night Out Should Be an Epic Bar Crawl of Downtown Las Vegas’s Best Breweries

Able Baker Brewery

Follow this turn-by-turn usher to research the burgeoning Brewery Row successful the Las Vegas Arts District

The “18b” Las Vegas Arts District was formed successful 1998 to beforehand creator endeavors of each forms. Over the past decade, the 18-block inaugural has welcomed different mean — the trade of brewing brew — which helped turn the territory into a burgeoning brew lover’s paradise, opening with the opening of Hop Nuts successful 2015 and the caller 2024 debut of Cin Cin Brewhouse and Seafood Bar. This do-it-yourself circuit on a quarter-mile agelong of Main Street with stops connected Third Street and Casino Center Boulevard encompasses visits to the 5 breweries and 2 brewery taprooms successful the bustling Las Vegas Arts District.

5 p.m. Start astatine Able Baker Brewing Co.

Start astatine Wyoming Avenue and Main Street connected the confederate extremity of the Arts District. The Able Baker Brewing Co. founders are past buffs, truthful they named the brewery aft the archetypal 2 atomic bombs detonated astatine the Nevada Test Site: “Able” and “Baker.” This wonderland of a brewery is renowned for having 1 of the largest pat selections (31) of its beers successful town, covering a wide scope of brew styles. Two of its astir fashionable beers are the malty Atomic Duck IPA and roasty and beardown Honey Dip Imperial Stout.

Make definite to get immoderate nutrient to assistance get done the remaining breweries and taprooms. Arts District Kitchen, situated wrong the brewery taproom, serves crowdpleasers similar pork belly tacos and a burger with onions, cheese, and fry condiment meant to satisfying immoderate post-pint hunger.

5:45 p.m. Cross the Street to Nevada Brew Works and HUDL Brewing Company

To find Nevada Brew Works, caput northbound 2 blocks to the country of Imperial Avenue and Main Street and look for the logoed silo. This family-owned concern offers respective creaseless true-to-style beers similar a aureate blonde ale, a refreshing lightly hopped brew, and the Ariana Rye, a well-balanced lightly hopped rye airy ale. For the latter, a information of proceeds is donated to a section foundation connected behalf of the Ariana Rye Foundation. The brewery besides doubles arsenic a bourbon bar, with astir 100 prime pours, including E. H. Taylor Rye and a Buffalo Trace tube exclusive to Nevada Brew Works. If inactive hungry, instrumentality vantage of the ceramic oven pizzas with 11 antithetic pies (try the Windy City with Italian beef, blistery giardiniera, and cheese). Enjoy the nutrient and drinks connected the dog-friendly patio facing Main Street.

Nevada Brew Works.

After exiting, marque a close and locomotion 2 doors down to HUDL. Head brewer Joe Cuozzo ever has a fewer precocious gravity malty brews, similar his 10 percent ABV 2024 Great American Beer Festival golden medal award-winner, Soul of a Star wheat wine, brewed with 50 percent reddish wheat. Also effort respective lighter selections specified arsenic Super Mini American lager and the low-carb Scorched Meadows hazy IPA. For immoderate fantabulous barbecue, next-door neighbour SoulBelly volition present straight to the taproom oregon the shared patio.

HUDL

6:45 p.m. Walk Three Blocks to Las Vegas Brewing Company

At this point, it should beryllium casual to locomotion disconnected immoderate of the brews. Head northbound connected Main Street to Colorado Avenue, marque a right, proceed 3 blocks to Third Street, and bent a near to find the recently opened taproom of Las Vegas Brewing Company decked retired with old-style Vegas decor featuring chill mini neon replicas of Vegas Vic and Vegas Vickie. The brew is brewed successful northwest Las Vegas, and this taproom is equipped with 24 lines of beers crafted by brewers Amanda Koeller and Becca Halpin. Their halfway brews screen a scope of styles from the mild Vegas airy lager to the roasty and toasty Nitro 1677 Irish stout. A room turns retired a constricted but potent paper of pub nutrient — smash burgers, house-made kettle chips, and brew food fondue.

7:30 p.m. Continue North to CraftHaus Arts District

After getting backmost connected Third Street, caput northbound to California Avenue, crook left, and locomotion a fractional artifact past Casino Center to the CraftHaus Arts District taproom. The taproom, which has 24 draught handles, pours beers brewed astatine its Henderson brewery, including 2 that are disposable year-round: Evocation, a Belgian-style saison with citrus and capsicum notes, and the 2024 GABF golden medal-winner Czech Plz, a snappy and thirst-quenching unfiltered Czech pilsner. Like successful Henderson, determination are cuckoo clocks and a lime greenish colour scheme, but determination are immoderate unsocial differences successful Arts District, similar a beauteous mural of a classical Vegas showgirl. Snack connected the paper of European sausages, cheese, and charcuterie boards.

8:15 p.m. Get Back connected Main Street and Walk to Hop Nuts

Exiting the taproom, crook near to caput fractional a artifact to Main Street and past crook right. Half a artifact down connected the westbound broadside of the thoroughfare is Hop Nuts, the archetypal brewery to unfastened successful the Arts District wherever it helped motorboat the area’s brew renaissance successful 2015. 20 taps see 2 year-round gems: Harry Porter, a full-bodied robust porter with affluent cocoa and roast quality notes; and Green Mamba, a West Coast-style treble IPA with loads of kettle hops and a steadfast adust hop that logs successful astatine much than 100 IBUs (international bittering units). As 100 represents the astir quality sensation buds tin detect, this brew is considered a bitter hop monster.

9 p.m. Make a Final Stop astatine Cin Cin Brewhouse & Seafood Bar

The last halt is simply a quarter-mile jaunt connected Main Street heading northbound of Charleston, crossed from the English Hotel. As the sanction suggests, the Cin Cin Brewhouse and Seafood Bar is conscionable arsenic overmuch a edifice arsenic a brewery. Seafood offerings see ceviche, crudo, sashimi, oysters connected the half-shell, sushi rolls, grilled fish, shrimp, calamari, and mussels. Brewmaster Cisco Talley designed the beers to complement the food. As such, the 20 taps are chiefly creaseless and casual drinking, specified arsenic Lemon Drop Blonde, an American aureate ale; Oyster Stout, an oatmeal stout brewed with full oysters successful the boil for a malty decorativeness with conscionable a interaction of salinity; and British Bitter connected nitro, an English peculiar bitter airy ale, which, contempt the misleading benignant name, is mildly hopped, creamy, and soft.

Throw backmost a pint with a dispersed of poke nachos, baked clams, and shishito peppers for the array to headdress disconnected a agelong day of exploring the bosom of Vegas’ trade brew scene.

Cin Cin Brewhouse & Seafood Bar.