Fairhope Brewing Company
Fairhope, Alabama, USA · Est. 2013
Tally's Take
Why this matters
Alabama Pass 17. Baldwin County. Founder: Michele Kane; Brian Kane; Dan Murphy; Gabe Harris; Jim Foley. Status as recorded: ACTIVE. First batch brewed December 21, 2012; opened January 6, 2013. Official history calls it Lower Alabama's first production craft brewery since Prohibition.
The Beer Library
Beers
Cheap Sunglasses
CURRENTKolsch-Style Golden Ale
Alabama Pass 17. Current packaged/draft beer.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Take the Causeway
CURRENTAmerican IPA
Alabama Pass 17. Current packaged/draft beer.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Fairhope 51
CURRENTAmerican Pale Ale
Alabama Pass 17. Named for the 51st recipe entry in brewery recipe book.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →I Drink Therefore I Amber
CURRENTAmber Ale
Alabama Pass 17. Current packaged/draft beer.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Blue Steel
CURRENTBlueberry & Lemon Sour
Alabama Pass 17. Current packaged/draft beer.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Take the Railway IPA
CURRENT / MOBILE FLAGSHIPIPA
Alabama Pass 17. Fairhope Brewing announced this Mobile-location IPA to mark the Aug. 18, 2025 return of Amtrak passenger service between Mobile and New Orleans.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Everyday Ale
HISTORICAL / FOUNDING TAPROOM BEERAle
Alabama Pass 17. One of the two beers on tap when Fairhope Brewing opened Jan. 6, 2013.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Section Street Wheat
HISTORICAL / FOUNDING TAPROOM BEERWheat Beer
Alabama Pass 17. One of the two beers on tap when Fairhope Brewing opened Jan. 6, 2013.
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.fairhopebrewing.com/ourstory 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 reliabilityAccessed 2026-08-19Reviewed 2026-08-19
Only the claims above are sourced. Everything else on this page is the archive's own research and has not yet been tied to a document — which is worth knowing rather than hiding.
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