J. Wakefield Brewing

Smallish footprint in Wymwood. Cozy, with a friendly staff. Very solid selection of outstanding beer on draft and to-go. No food, so eat before you show up!

Cool taproom with a Star Wars-y vibe in the heart of Wynwood. Service was friendly and knowledgeable. Lots of beers on. Flights available. Liked most the beers we tried, particularly liked the Gourdita imperial pumpkin ale. No food. Bit expensive. Still well worth a visit.

Having read other reviews, I was ready to be blown away by J. Wakefield. Maybe my expectations were too high, or their beer list just didn't agree with my taste. In any case I wasn't terribly impressed. I tried one of their fruit-flavored Berliner Weisse beers and an "orange dreamsicle" sour, both of which I thought played entirely on one super-puckery extremely sour note without letting any other flavors come out. The Resilience IPA was severely unbalanced even for a West Coast style. The boysenberry braggot may have been good -- I don't know how to appraise that sort of drink, which is a long way from beer -- but it was like brandy mixed with fruit juice. The Tank Tops saison was the best of the bunch for my taste, a peppery farmhouse with a nice undertone of orange-peel bitterness. At any rate, if you visit, be prepared for some challenging styles, and to drink a lot of beers (beverages) at 12% or above!

Esto es otro nivel, J. Wakefield están en lo más alto a nivel mundial elaborando Berliner Weisse y Sour, juegan otra liga. Durante nuestra estancia en Miami nuestras visitas fueron innumerables. El local es mediano en su interior, y la verdad es que las barricas convertidas en taburetes no son muy cómodas, la terraza tampoco es muy grande pero está bien, la decoración es 100% de la guerra de las galaxias y mola mucho, así que si eres fan te gustará incluso más. En cuanto a la birra... esta peña manda muchísimo… unos 20 surtidores aproximadamente, cervezas como la Nice Kicks, Space odditty, Nuzzle, What’s in a name, Meet me halfway, A long Time Ago, I Believe in a thing called stout… son cervezas elaboradas al otro lado de la pared de los surtidores y son auténticos trallazos con un nivel de complejidad y frescura fuera de serie, difícil de explicar con palabras. También se dispone de una nevera con cervezas propias y colaboraciones, unidades limitadas, como todo lo que elaboran estos magos, que cuentan con una clientela consolidada y experta que van pasando a cuenta gotas y acaban con las existencias en tiempos record, de hecho le pregunté por su mítica Berliner Weisse de fruta del Dragón, número uno en Ratebeer del estilo y me dijeron que la última vez que la elaboraron, la peña acampó en la calle para poder llevársela a casa, ya está todo dicho. Los días de más gente tienen un sistema rotativo de comida en el exterior, cada día una foodtrack diferente. Todo un referente.

Top Brewery in Wynwood. 15 eigene Taps. Dazu leckere Empenadas. Hier ist ein Besuch Pflicht. Sehr netter Barstuff.

Great place to visit ..it was a little busy on a Saturday Afternoon..El Jefe was my favourate tipple..

went here to pick up the Wakefest bottles, and couldn't not stop into this taproom, since wakefest is currently one of my favorite breweries ! the service was friendly, but perhaps a bit hasty. I can give them a freecard for that, regarding the fact they have this big fest coming up, they must be stressing like hell. The taplist was pretty extensive, and contained some cool beers ( pecans are forever is NOT a good breakfast, BTW ) , they also do flights for the more basic stuff ( which was surprisingly less great than expected, knowing only their raved-about beers, but still more than decent ! ) the prices were OK. To go ( in the brewpub ) there was only 1 bottle ( a sour ), or 4-packs of cans ( no singles ) of regular beers. There were shirts, but barely any left ( again, at this time, i can understand that ) . The interior is nice, not compeltely my style, but nicely done for sure. We met Jonathan himself, who kindly shared 2 great beers with us. Overall, as a place, this might not be thé place to go. As a Brewery, i would still recomend it very much though. And with all the other stuff going on in Florida right now, you can righteously say a combination of stops like this, is well worth an ( international ) trip !

Located in a trendy neighbourhood that was packed on a Saturday night, the tasting room is very beautiful, with Star Wars artwork all over the walls. Just over a dozen tap when I went, with 5 oz pours of anything on tap. Prices are beyond absurd, ranging from $3 / 5 oz for the basic stuff (hef, amber and brown) and $4-7 / 5 oz for some of the fruited sours. Beer quality was frankly not overly impressive - everything we had was decent to good, with nothing better than that. Even the highly priced fruited berliners that were on tap were kind of lacklustre. Service was friendly. Maybe I happened upon a less worthy taplist, or maybe they are just overhyped. Either way, it was just a solid stop.

Had a great time here. Lots of taps, beer is very good. Pretty pricey, even for sample sizes - pretty much a buck an ounce for most things in the sample size level. I mean, they have a fucken kolsch on today for $5 for a 5-oz pour. But whatever.