Archive record · Brewery
Braided River Brewing Company
Mobile, Alabama, Alabama, USA
- Founded
- 2020
- Archive ID
- TB-DNZM81ER
- Last checked
- Not yet checked
Who owns this brewery?
Named in dated ownership records. No parent company is held, and each owner's sources are shown below.
From the record
Summary
Mobile County. Founder: David Nelson. Status as recorded: ACTIVE. Opened in February 2020 at 420 St. Louis Street. Official site centers the Mobile-Tensaw Delta in the brewery identity; founder David Nelson is listed on the current team page.
A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.
Ownership & corporate history
- Owned by Braided River Brewing Company, LLCDate unknown
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
Directory/entity evidence supports the LLC company identity; it does not identify current equity ownership or parent group. Source: https://www.beersyndicate.com/app/Place?page=170&sortOrder=806%3D806
Ownership history is kept as dated events, so a change of owner never overwrites the one before it.
The People
Behind the beer
The Beer Library
Beers
Hoppy By Nature
CURRENTIPA
Visit Mobile identifies Hoppy By Nature as a flagship IPA; brewery's current keg program continues to list it.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Del Golfo
CURRENTMexican-Style Golden Lager
Official brewery merchandise page describes Del Golfo ('From the Gulf') as its signature Mexican-style Golden Lager.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Harvest Ale
HISTORICAL / SPECIAL RELEASEPale Ale
Released Oct. 13, 2023 using Alabama-grown barley malt and experimental Alabama-grown Cascade hops.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Gulf Pils
CURRENT / KEG PROGRAMPilsner
Current first-party keg-to-go request lists Gulf Pils as an available core keg option.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Hang Loose
CURRENT / KEG PROGRAMHazy Pale Ale
Current first-party keg program lists Hang Loose; independent Alabama brewery travel coverage identifies it as a citrus-forward hazy pale ale.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Summer Crush
Year-RoundFruited Sour
Tropical sour with passion fruit and sea salt. (Official brewery platform / availability unknown)
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Beer Here Now
Year-RoundKölsch
Crisp German-style ale; official platform lists 109 calories. (Official brewery platform / availability unknown)
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Winter Crush
Year-RoundFruited Gose
Pink-guava, pineapple and blood-orange sour with tiki-inspired spices. (Official brewery platform / availability unknown)
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Battleship
Year-RoundAmber / Red Lager
Collaboration with Battleship Rugby; amber lager with a Motueka-lime note. (Collaboration archive / availability unknown)
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Boom Boom
Year-RoundAmerican Pale Ale
Mardi Gras-themed pale ale with grapefruit, oak and coconut hop character. (Official brewery platform / availability unknown)
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Oktoberfest
Year-RoundMärzen
Golden, crisp Märzen with biscuit malt and mild spicy hops. (Seasonal archive / availability unknown)
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Coastal Stout
Year-RoundOyster Stout
Tropical-style stout brewed with recycled oyster shells for smoothness, minerality and light salinity. (Official brewery platform / availability unknown)
Drank this? Add it to your passport →The Great Destroyer
Year-RoundImperial / Double IPA
Nelson Sauvin dry-hopped DIPA with wine-grape and tropical-fruit notes. (Official brewery platform / availability unknown)
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Lil’ King Cake Baby
Year-RoundBlonde / Golden Ale
Carnival-season collaboration with Dropout Bakery brewed with king cake in the mash. (Collaboration archive / availability unknown)
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Slice N’ Spice
Year-RoundFruited Gose
Watermelon-and-Tajín gose. (Official brewery platform / availability unknown)
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Alternate Route
Year-RoundTraditional Altbier
Five-grain copper ale with caramel, hazelnut and toasted-bread notes. (Official brewery platform / availability unknown)
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Seize the Night
Year-RoundCoffee Stout
Mobile collaboration with Carpe Diem Coffee. (Collaboration archive / availability unknown)
Drank this? Add it to your passport →New Wave
Year-RoundNew Zealand Lager / Pilsner
Official 2026 limited-release page includes New Wave package image, upgrading the 2023 award beer to a verified 2026 release without changing its 2023 medal history. (CURRENT 2026 Limited release)
Drank this? Add it to your passport →False Fall
Year-RoundWhite / Golden Stout
Official 2026 limited-release page includes False Fall package art; current 2026 release status upgraded from archive-only availability. (CURRENT 2026 Limited release)
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Mutual Friends
RetiredSour Brown Ale / Wine Barrel Aged Expression
Raspberry sour brown ale; a wine-barrel-aged entry won 2023 U.S. Open silver. (Historical / award beer)
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Monster Mash
Year-RoundSour Ale
First-party 2026 package art: sour ale with plums, pomegranates and spices. (CURRENT 2026 Limited release)
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Barrel Aged Dubbel Down
Year-RoundBelgian-style Dubbel Ale
First-party 2026 package art; aged in a Willett bourbon barrel and brewed in collaboration with Shawn Cochran. (CURRENT 2026 Limited release)
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Tiki to the Limit
Year-RoundFruited / Spiced Sour Ale
Mobile Tiki Week release; first-party package art says passion fruit, pineapple and cinnamon. (CURRENT 2026 Limited release)
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Tailing Red
Year-RoundRed Ale
Mobile Baykeeper collaboration; package text ties the beer to coastal-water health and restoration work. (CURRENT 2026 Limited release)
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Rainbow Sherbet
Year-RoundSmoothie Sour Ale
Second Line Series smoothie sour; package lists tangerines, raspberries, calamansi, lime peel, vanilla and lactose. (CURRENT 2026 Limited release)
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Downtowner
Year-RoundVienna-style Lager
Brewed for the anniversary of the Downtown Runners Thursday night run club; first-party can art gives 5.0% ABV. (CURRENT 2026 Limited release)
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Trail Ale
Year-RoundAmerican Wheat Ale
First-party package supports Crepe Myrtle Trail and low-impact development projects along the Mobile Peninsula. (CURRENT 2026 Limited release)
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Little Batteau
Year-RoundFrench Saison
Mobile Baykeeper collaboration; first-party package text ties it to coastal-water health and restoration work. (CURRENT 2026 Limited release)
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Lemon Face
Year-RoundRaspberry Lemon Shandy
Aubreigh's Army Foundation 328 special edition; package says raspberry lemon shandy with citrus and berry notes. (CURRENT 2026 Limited release)
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Barrel Aged Where Da' Gold At?
Year-RoundSpringtime Golden Ale / Barrel-Aged
First-party package art: springtime golden ale aged in a Willett bourbon barrel. (CURRENT 2026 Limited release)
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Black Lager
Year-RoundSchwarzbier-style Lager
First-party 2026 package art; brewed in collaboration with The Haberdasher. (CURRENT 2026 Limited release)
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Azalea City
Year-RoundUNKNOWN
Official 2026 limited-release page includes a package image named Azalea City; style and ABV remain UNKNOWN because the image fetch timed out. (CURRENT 2026 Limited release)
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Spotted Tail
Year-RoundClassic American Lager
Current first-party keg request lists Spotted Tail; current brewery-platform data describes it as a pre-Prohibition-style American lager brewed with American pilsner malt, corn and hops. (CURRENT / KEG PROGRAM)
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Old School
Year-RoundUNKNOWN
Current first-party Braided River keg-to-go request explicitly lists Old School among the brewery's $75 keg options; style and ABV remain UNKNOWN. (CURRENT / KEG PROGRAM)
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Classic American Lager
Year-RoundAmerican Lager
Current first-party keg program lists Classic American Lager; 2026 Alabama venue menus/check-ins corroborate current draft availability at 4.4% ABV. (CURRENT 2026 / KEG + DRAFT)
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Hazy Shade of Spring
Year-RoundHazy IPA / Saison-yeast hybrid
Braided River's current 2026 limited-release page includes the hazy-spring package art; brewery-platform detail gives 7.1% ABV and describes a hazy IPA recipe fermented with saison yeast, Amarillo and Summit hops. (CURRENT 2026 Limited release)
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Show your working
Sources
- recordProbable
Brewery record compiled in Tally's Alabama master, Pass 17 — Blount and outer north-east reconciliation (research workbook), which cited https://www.braidedriverbrewing.com/about for this entry. The cited page has not been opened by the archive.
Tally's Alabama master, Pass 17 — Blount and outer north-east reconciliation (research workbook) · Compiled with ChatGPT web search under the Tally's workbook protocol · 2026-08
CommercialMedium reliabilitySource accessed 2026-08-19Claim last checked 2026-08-19
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