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Straight to Ale

Huntsville, Alabama, Alabama, USA

ActiveOwnership unknownMicrobrewery
Founded
2009
Archive ID
TB-6F9GWM3T
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From the record

Summary

Madison County. Founder: Group of local home brewers. Status as recorded: ACTIVE. Founded in 2009; moved in 2016 into the former Stone Middle School at Campus 805.

A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.

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The Beer Library

Beers

Monkeynaut

Year-Round

American IPA

ABV7.3%

75 IBU. Tribute to primates that preceded human U.S. Spaceflight.

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Brother Joseph

Year-Round

Belgian Dubbel

ABV8.0%

24 IBU. Named for Brother Joseph Zoettl of Ave Maria Grotto in Cullman.

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Stout at the Devil

Year-Round

Oatmeal Stout

ABV7.8%

21.7 IBU. Brewed with sea-salt caramel coffee.

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Chill Pils

Year-Round

Pilsner

ABV4.5%

15 IBU. Current core beer.

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Unobtainium

LIMITED / BARREL AGED

Old Ale

ABV10.1%

22 IBU. Old ale aged six months in bourbon barrels; pale/black/crystal malts and molasses.

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Blood Brother

LIMITED / VARIANT

Belgian Dubbel with Blood Orange

ABV8.0%

24 IBU. Brother Joseph-derived Belgian Dubbel conditioned on blood-orange puree.

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Lily Flagg Milk Stout

HISTORICAL / EARLY CORE

Milk Stout

One of Straight to Ale's earliest commercially produced beers after Monkeynaut; named in Brewers Association feature.

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Sand Island Lighthouse Kölsch

HISTORICAL / EARLY CORE

Kölsch

One of Straight to Ale's first three commercial beers in 2009-era rollout.

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Bourbon Barrel Aged Laika Russian Imperial Stout

HISTORICAL / AWARD BEER

Russian Imperial Stout / Bourbon Barrel Aged

Award-winning barrel-aged Laika variant; 2014 World Beer Championship Platinum and RateBeer 2015 Best Beer in Alabama reported by Brewers Association feature.

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On the record

Awards

  • 2019

    Winner — Alabama

    RateBeer Best Beer in Alabama

  • 2019

    Winner — Alabama

    RateBeer Best Brewer in Alabama

  • 2014

    Platinum

    World Beer Championships

Only awards we could attribute to a named body and year appear here. An empty section means unresearched, not unawarded.

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Sources

  1. recordProbable

    Brewery record compiled in Tally's Alabama master, Pass 17 — Blount and outer north-east reconciliation (research workbook), which cited https://straighttoale.com/ 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 2026-08-19
    Claim last checked 2026-08-19

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