Local Craft Breweries near Desoto, TX (25)

Oak Highlands Brewery is a brewery and taproom in the Lake Highlands area of Dallas, Texas that offers awesome beers at great prices. They operate a “fully automated 3-vessel, 30-barrel brewhouse” that was manufactured by Alpha Brewing Operations. They feature taproom beers alongside their year-round and seasonal options. Large glass windows allows you to look out into the brewing area. This is the most “family-friendly brewery in Dallas!” They have old-school arcade games, ping pong, air hockey, beanbag toss, crayon buckets with coloring pages on every table. With a non-alcoholic apple soda on tap next to their badass craft beer selection and Double M BBQ out front, you could bring the whole family and easily spend the afternoon here. Their place is spacious and allow outside food on the premises. At times, they have food trucks available for your convenience.

Providing locally crafted beer on East Side of Dallas, Lakewood Brewing Company is a small batch craft beer outlet that offers “tastings, tours, food trucks & live music events.” Their brewery and taproom produces high quality ales and lagers for whichever neighborhood you call home. Lakewood Brewing Co is proud to be part of a great list of independent Texas craft beer breweries. They strive to create the “highest quality, internationally inspired, local craft beers” that are full of flavor and combine the best of classic brewing techniques with unique, new ideas. They have seasonal varieties of their flagship “Temptress beer,” plus other hard-to-find beers, offered in the tap room. If you are feeling adventurous, “The Witch” is a deliciously decadent blend of stout, spice, and heat!

3 Nations Brewing Co. Founder and brewmaster Gavin Secchi and his four partners combine ancient European brewing traditions with American innovation and ingenuity to come up with its line of craft beers. Their brewing process is “a fresh take on old world style” and launched mainstay beers American Wit and GPA, a German pale ale. Founded in 2015, they’ve since expanded the lineup to include, among others, Texas Gold, Mango Smash IPA, Bull’s Brown Ale, and Haze Wizard IPA. The brewery is celebrating new milestones with a win as Best Brewery in Dallas by the Dallas Observer, and the brewery's move in October 2019 to the Historic Downtown Carrollton (just 1.5 miles from their current location at Farmers Branch). The new facility includes a spacious taproom, patio, and a private events room.  The taproom will also double up as a test market serving new brews.

The owners of Turning Point Beer had another name in mind for their brewery. Luckily, they settled on “Turning Point”, which appropriately describes the different milestones they accomplished to get where they are. These milestones, among others, include two of its founders working for “two of DFW’s most respected craft beer breweries” prior to putting up their own. They also had to win the support of the Bedford community, some of whom opposed the opening of the brewery. Despite the challenges, they finally opened on March 2018. The owners chose the Mid-Cities location because it “is where a lot of people live”. The brewery specializes in New England-style hazy beers, with one publication saying they put “unique spins on underrepresented beers”. The owners hope “to mark a ‘turning point’ for craft beer” in the neighborhood. By the way, you have six seconds to guess what the name of the brewery could have been.

Breaking Brew Meadery is a family-owned brew meadery and is the first mead taproom located in Dallas, Texas. It can be found "in an industrial-looking strip mall" and "it could be hard to find if you aren't watching out for the signs pointing to the meadery". This is a "great place to relax" with "great service and super nice owners too". "If you have never tried meads before, this is the place to get your first and learn more about the process and how meads got their taste". Mead is one of the oldest alcoholic beverages which is fermented from honey.  There are "dry, fruity, or hoppy meads" such as the "Ginger Bear" and "Raspberry Beret". They have "light, flavorful, gluten-free" meads such as the "Comb Over" and the "Bee Sting". You can bring a growler and discount its cost on your next refill. They offer flights too.