Straight to Ale
Huntsville, Alabama, USA · Est. 2009
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Why this matters
Alabama Pass 17. 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.
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Beers
Monkeynaut
Year-RoundAmerican IPA
Alabama Pass 17. 75 IBU. Tribute to primates that preceded human U.S. spaceflight.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Brother Joseph
Year-RoundBelgian Dubbel
Alabama Pass 17. 24 IBU. Named for Brother Joseph Zoettl of Ave Maria Grotto in Cullman.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Stout at the Devil
Year-RoundOatmeal Stout
Alabama Pass 17. 21.7 IBU. Brewed with sea-salt caramel coffee.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Chill Pils
Year-RoundPilsner
Alabama Pass 17. 15 IBU. Current core beer.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Unobtainium
LIMITED / BARREL AGEDOld Ale
Alabama Pass 17. 22 IBU. Old ale aged six months in bourbon barrels; pale/black/crystal malts and molasses.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Blood Brother
LIMITED / VARIANTBelgian Dubbel with Blood Orange
Alabama Pass 17. 24 IBU. Brother Joseph-derived Belgian Dubbel conditioned on blood-orange puree.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Lily Flagg Milk Stout
HISTORICAL / EARLY COREMilk Stout
Alabama Pass 17. One of Straight to Ale's earliest commercially produced beers after Monkeynaut; named in Brewers Association feature.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Sand Island Lighthouse Kölsch
HISTORICAL / EARLY COREKölsch
Alabama Pass 17. One of Straight to Ale's first three commercial beers in 2009-era rollout.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Bourbon Barrel Aged Laika Russian Imperial Stout
HISTORICAL / AWARD BEERRussian Imperial Stout / Bourbon Barrel Aged
Alabama Pass 17. Award-winning barrel-aged Laika variant; 2014 World Beer Championship Platinum and RateBeer 2015 Best Beer in Alabama reported by Brewers Association feature.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →On the record
Awards
- 2019
Winner — Alabama
RateBeer Best Beer 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
- 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 reliabilityAccessed 2026-08-19Reviewed 2026-08-19
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