Best Breweries in Reno

The Brew Brothers has been named the Best Brewpub in America by Nightclub & Bar magazine and has been voted "Best Microbrew, "Best Beer Selection" and "Best Live Music" in several Best of Reno polls and was named the highest selling brewpub in North America. The Brew Brothers is located in the Eldorado hotel and casino in downtown Reno. It's a fun place where you can get great draft microbrews, food an live music. The Brew Brothers brew their own beer and their specialties include the Big Dog IPA and the Wild Card Wheat Ale. Food includes pizza, burgers, sandwiches and salads. Try the Margarita Pizza and the Chicken and Apple Salad.

StoneyHead Brewery is located in the central part of Reno and offers a wide range of beers that are shipped around the country. The brewery offers free tastings at their main location as well as special events. StoneyHead Brewery beers are affordable and they offer snacks along with their free tastings. With a large figure of an Easter Island Moai on their labels, the beers are just as fun. Choose from Galena Gold Amber Ale, Red Carmel Irish Ale or Sneak Attack IPA. You can order bottles or a growler of your favorite beer. Stoney Head also is available at special events around the city.

IMBĪB Custom Brews, located near Downtown Reno, is a brewery featuring old-world barrel aged beers plus malty, hoppy, and easy drinking brews. Designed as a community beer hall, IMBĪB offers memberships, classes, and custom orders as well as special events like beer and food pairings, craft beer week and food truck partnerships. The also offer a beer membership. IMBĪB serves a range of their own brews, but specializes in sour beers like Saison. They also have a nice range of Scottish ales, stouts, fruit beers and IPA. Each glass goes for around $5-$7 and the taproom is available for tours.

The Brewer's Cabinet, located just steps from the Truckee River in Downtown Reno, creates their own small batches of of craft beers as well as delicious food made from fresh, local ingredients. For both lunch and dinner, you can pick up one of their beers on tap. Try the Tahoe Pale Ale or the Tahoe Amber. The Sorry for Partying Pilsner is light and fresh and the stronger Dirty Wookie is for the dark-lovin' folks. The Brewer's Cabinet menu features salads, sandwiches and delicious burgers. The dinner menu features entrees like beer battered fish and chips with a lemon and caper aioli ($12.50) and the Baby Back Ribs with fries ($14.95). If you like burgers try the Lamb Burger with smoked tomato jam, goat cheese and lettuce on a rosemary bun ($11.50) or the Pulled Pork sandwich on a variety of homemade breads ($10.50).

This rustic, but classic brew pub in Midtown Reno was actually built over an artesian lake right in the middle of the city. The icy cold water from the lake is used to make this brew pub's selection of tasty drafts. The Brasserie's drafts include a variety of German Kolsch, ales, porters, lagers and a Farm-hand Saison called Daily Wages ($7 for a tulip glass). You can enjoy a $2 taster or larger pints, imperial pints and growler fills. The pub also serves European style dishes and American comfort food made from natural ingredients. The dinner menu features appetizers like salads and soups and starters such as Steak Tartare ($14) and Bone Marrow Canoes ($14) with bacon jam and toast. The entrees include the Brasserie Braise ($22) with short ribs and oxtails braised in dark ale and served with vegetables and creamed polenta. The Dixie Chicken ($17) is southern style with creamed kale and country grits.

The Silver Peak Grill and Tap Room (the downtown river location) is as popular for its ales and lagers as it is for its pub fare. With items such as salmon fish and chips dipped in Red Ale batter, grilled-lamb burger with kalamata olives and goat cheese, and their signature barley-crusted chicken-breast sandwich with applewood-smoked bacon, this isn't your average bar menu. The drinks include on-tap beers such as XXX Blonde, Battle Born Beer and Stella Artois. Located on the corner of First and Sierra streets, across from the Century movie theater, Silver Peak is a popular meeting spot, and the outdoor seating on the patio is a great place for people-watching. The second (original) location of the Silver Peak is in Midtown Reno on Wonder Street.

The Depot is Reno's first brewery and distillery that serves some excellent pub food with a local twist. The brewery portion serves up a selection of Nevada-inspired beers and the distillery creates spirits for purchase or for use in the bar's numerous cocktails. The lunch and dinner menu features salads and main dishes like Poutine with oxtail gravy ($8), various burgers and sliders and an excellent beet salad. Their snack dishes are great to share and include items like Shrimp Ceviche ($11) Steamed Cockles ($13) with beer broth and bacon, and a four cheese Mac & Cheese ($7.50) that will remind you of your cool Mom's dish.

One of the most popular places in Reno/Sparks for pub grub and microbrews. Great Basin is home to the hoppy Icthyosaur Pale Ale. "Gimme an Icky" is the calling card of this place located on Victorian Square. The Great Basin serves up food for both lunch and dinner that is inspired by the Nevada desert and mountains. Items such as Ale Battered Zucchini or Dill Pickles, Shepherd's Pie, Sonoran-Style Fish Tacos, and the classic Caesar Salad are all excellent. Other brews besides the Icky include the Wild Horse Ale, the Nevada Gold Pilser and the Jackpot Porter. Other drinks are offerer such Wyders Pear Hard Cider and wine from Kendall Jackson and Seven Deadly Zins. Live music is featured on most weekends and includes bluegrass and country bands such as Smokin' Bulldogs and Dust on the Bottle.

Located in the historic Wild West town of Virginia City, the Virginia City Brewery and Taphouse is run by experience brewmasters and chefs. Built in a former bakery, the building now serves various handcrafted beers made from alpine water from the Sierra Nevada. The beers range from IPA and pale ales to dark stouts and porters. Try the Marlette Red made from the water of the crystal clear Marlette Lake or the YellowJacket Honey Plae Ale named after the famous mine. The brews can be paired with small plates like pulled pork sandwiches, steam beer brats, soups and tamales. You can also order from other local Virginia City restaurants.

Located in an industrial/artistic area near Downtown Reno, the Under the Rose Brewing Company not only brews their own selection of beers, but they also have special events as well as tons of games. With a nod to European brews, choose from the Berlinerbeer, Saisonbeer or Roggenbeer. There are also a selection of flavorful pumpkins beers as well as seasonal blondes. The Nevadabeer is an American style pale ale that reflects the Silver State. While you drink you can enjoy ping pong, darts, giant Jenga, foosball, bocce ball or even board games.