JDub’s Brewing Company

The best microbrew in the Manatee/​Sarasota area! Excellent selection of beers that will please all types of beer drinkers served by friendly staff. If you aren’t a beer drinker, they will help navigate you to a beer you’ll enjoy. The outdoor space is wonderful, and the tap room actually has a personality. There’s so many microbrews in this area that all seem kind of the same. This place is original, fun, and serves great beers. Come here if you want to have a good time and drink great beers.

Stopped in yesterday afternoon. I have had the beers that are available through distribution, and they are really good… especially the Bell Cow, Chocolate Milk Porter. They had the Bell Cow on a Nitro tap. Even better! Picked up a six pack of the Blueberry IPA to go!
The only dislike was that it was kind of warm in the tasting room. It was a hot, sticky day yesterday, and it was only slightly cooler inside.

This place really does have the coolest front door ever. (As seen in other reviews and pics)
They have the beer to back it up too. The passion wheat was so good. I also had the Sweet n Sour which I really really liked.
I got here just in time because right after me an entire tour trolley showed up.

This place is SO awesome ! It’s a small, friendly brewery that produces huge amounts of great craft beer. The tasting room is just feet from the actual brewery.
They have tasting flights, growlers, 6 packs and more. Most of the time they have 10 different beers on tap. Every one of the beer tenders has been knowledgeable, friendly and encouraging.
The general feeling is way laid back and fun. I haven’t been here during the occasional outdoor parties but I hear they’re a blast.

Minutes from Downtown, dog friendly beer garden, more than half rotating taps and new beers weekly. Check out
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Best brewery in town! I tried a flight of beer for my first visit and there wasn’t one that I didn’t absolutely love! Not to mention the atmosphere is fabulous and the service was excellent! Go now!

Best brewery in town. Excellent beer and a great atmosphere. There blueberry ale is intense and delicious. It’s super relaxed and the back area is very spacious and dog friendly.

So many good sounding beers, my wife and I got a sampler, we haven’t ordered a sampler in a long time, because many breweries we’ve been to have had enough beers that appealed to us. My wife loved the Blueberry IPA, and I was blown away by how chocolaty the Bell Cow milk chocolate porter was, and amazing how well it blended with the hazelnut! My only complaint is that they did not have the Caramel Bacon Stout that was on their «on tap now» list on Unilocal that got me in the door.

Great beer, great people, dog friendly (truly dog friendly — they’re welcome INSIDE, not just on a patio) and good food trucks. Could it get any better? Visited this place after landing at the Sarasota airport recently and had a great time. Can’t wait to go back.

Awesome chill spot! Great beers and knowledgable staff!

Love this place. Best beer in the area, and it’s a great place to enjoy and hang out with family and friends.

Let’s first start off with the décor and ambiance, this placed nailed it ! Cathedral like door greet you and the inside is very eclectic. Now on to the beers, a flight of 4 beers are $ 10 and all of them were good. They have multiple fruit based beers and various seasonal IPAs. Overall a funky cool spot to grab a beer and chill. They even have various events during the week (yoga, movie nights, cheese pairings, running group)

Loved this place! Up Top is one of my local favorites so it was cool to check this place out. Inside had lots of seating and board games. Outside has covered and uncovered patio as well as grassy area. Outside they had giant connect four, jenga, corn hole and darts. Dogs are allowed outside and they have a different food truck daily. Check it out!

I don’t easily give 5 starts unless the place is really worth it, and this brewery pretty much has it all.
While visiting Sarasota to hangout with friends for my wife’s birthday, I was on the mission to try some of the best local beer and that is how I ended up here. First of all, the décor on this place is amazing, from the old wood 8 feet tall doors, to the crazy stickers characters on the tanks. The place is small on the inside, but they have a great outdoor area with picnic tables and a bunch of different games such as gigantic Jenga, and corn hole, but lets talk turkey.
Their beers (I had some of Jdubs stuff before and I was never impressed with their can line) but I still decided to try every single one of their beers on tap.
My favorites: Pineapple habanero, holy smokes… Yes spice with a little bit of sourness from the pineapple make this beer one of my favorite from these guys. Great Scot was the second one, english scotch red ale, with notes of toasty malts and a little bit boozy, just the way I like my scotch ale’s. But the winner was their latest released beer… American Wild, this is a beer that they aged in George Dickel barrels for 8 months with notes of brett and cherries, what a treat this beer was! Im really sad about this one cause while I was there I found out they released bottles that day at noon, and I didn’t know about it. I would’ve love to get my hands on some of these babies, unfortunately they were all gone by the time I got there, I remember the bar tender mentioned bottles last about 45 minutes but considering of the quality of this amazing brew I’m not surprised at all.
Service was amazing, wife and friends were a little bit hungry so bartender (I think his name was Karl) help us out ordering some bites from a neighbor restaurant. Overall this place is really cool, with really good quality suds. Please if you are in the are so your self a favor and stop by Jdubs and have a cold one for me.

After the soap reveal… they have ginger mint beer soap! Beers are good too… always 3 or 4 something new in the rotation.

Order the black beauty. Oh, and everything else on their beer menu. My boyfriend and I were in Tampa and decided to scope out breweries on the way home to Miami. Thank Rama and Zeus of the heavens that we found this place in Sarasota. I can’t stop raving; from the life sized images of Jules from Pulp Fiction (favorite movie) to the quote by Jack Burton (Big Trouble in Little China) for a beer name, this place did not disappoint. The crowd was a nice mix of seasoned gentlemen in polo shirts watching golf and most-​likely-​to-​ride-​a-​harley types watching women’s MMA. For the rest of us, Fast and Furious was playing on the big screen, because who doesn’t love F&F 1 – 7? We sampled a few flights (thank you for having them available) and I noticed they do beer and cheese pairings, which I would drive 3 hours for because these beers have wonderful pairing qualities. We stopped into a few breweries and bars that sold local brews on tap, and this was our favorite stop. Also, the guy behind the bar (I’m sorry I didn’t catch his name but he was there on a Sunday evening-Mother’s day, to be exact) was extremely nice, which was much appreciated as we had come from another brewery where they had more of the too-​cool-​for-​you attitude. The beers here were very original and memorable. JDub’s, I would move to Sarasota for you.

We went in late on New Year’s Day and we were the only customers, which is ok by me. The place is in an industrial area but close to downtown. It’s painted really cool with murals everywhere. The backyard is a nice touch too. The beers were okay IMO. Nothing really stood out as super special, but I’m sure some people would like their brews more than I (I like weird flavors and fusions). Cool solid pub. Oh they also have lots of board games and a huge projection screen!

Awesome beer and nice tap room.
Everyone is wicked friendly and I managed to come back within a few days of first discovering this place. I highly recommend checking this place out

Been coming to Sarasota 1−2x/year forever, on my most recent trip we stumbled upon JDubs when looking for a local brewery and were not disappointed.
It’s a little off the beaten path but well worth the trip; we stopped in for a flight or two before heading to dinner at Darwins.
I worked my way through the board so I was thankful for the small tasting glasses; my favorite being the coffee milk stout aka Colombian Mouth Candy but all of them were good.
Friendly employees, one of whom bought us a round; and very reasonable prices. Great space to relax indoors or out.
Will definitely be back next time we’re in town.

This place has the coolest front door ever. Definitely a newer brewery not a ton of options on tap but definitely good beer. I really enjoyed the atmosphere and would love to go back.