By Bob Barnes
HUDL Brewing Now Open in Arts District As the burgeoning Arts District in Downtown Las Vegas continues to blossom with new eateries and craft beer establishments, last month’s opening of HUDL Brewing brings the total of breweries and taprooms to 7, along with a handful of craft beer bars now pouring or opening soon. Situated at 1327 S. Main in the same building and just steps from Nevada Brew Works (which opened a month earlier), the two breweries share a sizeable outdoor patio. Inside you’ll find a coated concrete floor, repurposed wood wall and a black and gray color scheme with black tables and black/gray chairs. There’s also an attractive high def screen above the bar listing the beers with descriptions. Like many other new ventures, this one was two years in the making and COVID slowed things down, including the backlog of required inspections. At the soft opening I was informed by Co-owner Ken Cooper that the name HUDL is a shortening of huddle, but is not a football reference, but rather denotes a community getting together to have a good time. Head Brewer Joe Cuozzo had a full roster of eight beers ready to pour. I especially enjoyed the Wrathful Rose, made with raspberries
and hibiscus tea, which thankfully was more tart than sweet; Shaggy Assassin, a hazy IPA; Vanilla Oak Cream Ale with a slight oak character; Salty Swabber, a 9.4% American DIPA made with all US hops; and best of all, the 8.2% 115° Imperial Stout on nitro aged on dark chocolate in a bourbon barrel. Joe tells me up next will be a pilsner. I’ve talked about the Arts District morphing into a beer district, and although I’m not suggesting changing the name, with this and other recent openings and more coming soon, it certainly qualifies as one.
Trustworthy Brewing Reopens
three new Vegas beers, which included Test Pilot Unfiltered Ale, which GM Robert Parekh informed us was the initial batch and the name references how unforeseen mechanical issues with the never before used brewhouse proved to be challenging, yet it still came out to be pretty good. Also poured were Palazzo Pale, an American pale ale, and A Year in the Making, an American amber ale named for how long it took to finally obtain their brewers license, which ironically was issued the day before the shutdown in March. Regarding the beers he is making, Head Brewer Zach Johnson, who started brewing at Trustworthy in Feb. 2017, said, “I don’t try to get too much into one style of
On October 1 Trustworthy Brewing at The Palazzo reopened, which happens to be the only brewery on the Vegas Strip. A few weeks later a media event was held, hosted by Co-founder Chipper Pastron, who said, “We’re really happy and so excited to get the doors open again and the staff back to work.” He also shared with the group that the brewery is now brewing its own beers. (When Trustworthy opened in July, 2019 government licensing was still pending and beers were being sent over from the other Trustworthy location in Burbank, CA.) It was an honor to be one of the first to try
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Bob Barnes is a native Las Vegan, editorial director of The Las Vegas Food & Beverage Professional and covers the LV restaurant scene for Gayot.com. He welcomes your inquiries. Email: bob@lvfnb.com
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