Brewery Row — with its losses stated

The full walking crawl of Arts District Brewery Row was filmed in 2021, when the stretch north of Charleston was becoming the center of Vegas craft beer: Able Baker (named for the first two atomic test shots; the Atomic Duck IPA; a garage-door taproom where you watch the brewhouse), Nevada Brew Works (the row's busiest room, sharing a quad with a barbecue joint), and Cerveza (flavored micheladas with chamoy and Tajín rims). Read it with its updates, which our summaries carry and this page repeats plainly: HUDL Brewing closed in December 2025 after five years; Beer District Brewing rebranded as Neon Desert Brewing in 2022 and moved to Henderson in 2024 — the Main Street original no longer exists; the upstairs Mad Fermentist inside Three Sheets closed in August 2022 (the bar below continued). A 2025 crawl runs the district as it stands now — Able Baker the anchor, four stops, murals between pours — and an August 2026 walk plus First Friday footage and the City of Las Vegas's own three-new-bars sampler (September 2025) keep the district current.

The Brewery Row in the Arts District - DOWNTOWN LAS VEGAS

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A full walking crawl of Brewery Row in the Arts District, filmed in 2021, when this stretch north of Charleston was becoming the center of Las Vegas craft beer. The crawl starts at Able Baker Brewing — named for the first two atomic test shots, with a duck mascot from test-site legend — pouring its flagship Atomic Duck IPA alongside guest taps like Ryan Reaves' Shiver Giver, plus garbage fries, a TJ-style dog and a craft burger in a garage-door taproom where you can watch the brewhouse. Then Beer District Brewing, the family-owned spot that opened in February 2020 and survived the pandemic's grilled-cheese era (year-round pour: Captain Haze, a Citra-and-Galaxy New England IPA; trivia on Thursdays); the Three Sheets craft-beer bar with The Mad Fermentist brewing upstairs (a homebrewer of 18 years with 36 medals); Nevada Brew Works, the row's busiest room, sharing a quad with HUDL Brewing and Soulbelly BBQ; HUDL's hazy IPAs and 9.4% Salty Swabber double IPA; and finally Cerveza, the Mexican-themed taproom where flavored micheladas with chamoy and Tajín are the house specialty, backed by a walk-in fridge of local cans and a rotating food-truck lot serving birria tacos. Note: the crawl was filmed in 2021 — HUDL Brewing has since closed (December 2025), and Beer District later rebranded as Neon Desert Brewing and moved to Henderson.

Key takeaways
  • The row in 2021: Able Baker, Beer District, Three Sheets/The Mad Fermentist, Nevada Brew Works, HUDL and Cerveza
  • Able Baker's Atomic Duck IPA is the row's flagship pour; the duck is a nuclear-test mascot
  • Nevada Brew Works, HUDL and Soulbelly BBQ share one quad — two breweries and a barbecue joint

Best Places To Visit in the Las Vegas ARTS DISTRICT

Jaycation

Jaycation's March 2025 Arts District brewery crawl, run with Pregame Excursions from the gateway of the district: Able Baker Brewing first, then three more stops — flights ranked as they go, a Trumer Pilsner from Salzburg, a sour that drinks like pineapple juice — with the murals and street art of 18b woven between pours. It's the district framed as a tasting route rather than a bar list.

Key takeaways
  • The Arts District (18b) sits just south of downtown, around Main Street and Charleston. A guided brewery tour is an easy first visit — four stops, no driving. Able Baker is the anchor brewery. Go in the afternoon and stay for dinner; the district's restaurants cluster nearby.

🎊 Brew Dog Las Vegas Rooftop Brewery

Exploring Las Vegas

Filmed at the industry preview just before BrewDog Las Vegas opened to the public in December 2022, this tour covers the Scottish brewer's Strip rooftop at 3761 Las Vegas Boulevard, across from Park MGM. An elevator ride reaches the third-floor taproom — brew vats along one wall, a big main bar, shuffleboard and booth seating — and upstairs opens into the Sinatra room and a huge patio with bars, cabana-style seating and fire pits, with Strip views running both north and south. The food is premium-priced even by Strip standards; he tries the smoking-box wagyu cheeseburger (the '150' burger) with haircut fries. Practical notes: there is a parking lot directly behind, limo drop-off works from the Target side alley, and T-Mobile Arena event nights make the whole corner chaotic.

Key takeaways
  • BrewDog's Las Vegas rooftop sits at 3761 Las Vegas Blvd, across from Park MGM
  • Two levels: brewery taproom below, Sinatra room and a huge fire-pit patio above
  • Strip views run both directions from the rooftop

The Strip-side pours

BrewDog Las Vegas (filmed at its December 2022 industry preview): the Scottish brewer's rooftop at 3761 Las Vegas Boulevard, across from Park MGM — third-floor taproom with brew vats, then the Sinatra room and a huge fire-pit patio with Strip views both ways; food premium-priced even by Strip standards; T-Mobile event nights make the corner chaotic (use the Target-side alley). One block off the Strip behind the Horseshoe, Ellis Island's Front Yard is the locals' answer: a two-story beer garden under a retractable roof, the casino's own brews (brewed on site for decades), barbecue, $5 blackjack tables inside the venue, and Saturday waits that can hit an hour.

The night-cap pairing

An adults-only night (March 2026) frames a brewery tour around Absinthe — dinner, pours, then the tent — for groups who want the evening in one arc. Between the Row's honest archaeology and the two Strip-side rooms, this page is the complete pour map: what opened the scene, what closed, and what's pouring now.

Sources: the eight videos on this page — the 2021 Brewery Row crawl with its closure updates, a 2025 district crawl, a BrewDog preview tour, an Ellis Island beer-garden guide, an adults-only brewery night, two Arts District walks and the city's new-bars sampler — summarized from their entries in our catalog.

🥳 Ellis Island Las Vegas – Front Yard Brewery

Exploring Las Vegas

The Front Yard at Ellis Island, the two-story beer garden attached to the locals' casino one block east of the Strip behind the Horseshoe. The room is built around a retractable circular roof that opens on nice nights, with a DJ or band, and it pours Ellis Island's own brews — the casino has brewed on site for decades — alongside barbecue from the attached restaurant; the pork belly bites are the popular order. Unusually for a brewery, there are $5 blackjack tables inside the venue itself, in keeping with Ellis Island's low-roller identity. The host, who books party packages here (two hours of all-you-can-drink beer runs about $70-80 per person through his company, tax and tip included), warns that Saturday nights can mean an hour's wait, and notes the Front Yard also runs a party brunch.

Key takeaways
  • Two-story beer garden at Ellis Island, one block off the Strip behind the Horseshoe
  • Retractable roof, DJ or band on nice nights, Ellis Island's own brews on tap
  • $5 blackjack tables inside the brewery — true to the casino's low-roller roots

Adults Only Vegas: Absinthe The Wildest Show on the Strip & Las Vegas Brewery Tour

Dani.702

Dani.702's adults-only Vegas night (March 2026) is built around Absinthe — 'what might be the raunchiest show in town, and for Sin City that says a lot' — with dinner and a brewery tour as the frame. The Absinthe portion is a genuine attendee's account of the wildest-show-on-the-Strip billing, from inside the tent.

Key takeaways
  • An attendee's Absinthe night, Mar 2026
  • 'The raunchiest show in town' tested
  • Dinner + brewery tour frame the evening

Other Side of Downtown Las Vegas Most Tourists Miss! Arts District to Fremont East

Dani.702

Dani.702's August 2026 walk from the Arts District into Fremont East — the side of downtown most tourists never see. An award-winning wine spot, a Mexican pastry shop with a line before it opens (the guava-and-cheese empanadas earn the hype), and three bars that couldn't be more different from each other, plus a 1940s building turned into one of downtown's most creative corners.

Key takeaways
  • Filmed August 2026. The Arts District and Fremont East blur into one walkable stretch. Come hungry — the food stops carry this tour. Lines form early at the pastry shop; go in the morning.

Watch: Las Vegas Breweries And Taprooms, guided

2 videos · summaries from the actual guides

Downtown Vegas Arts District Walking Tour In August 2026

Vegas Ready

Vegas Ready's August 2026 evening walk from the Sahara down into the Arts District for First Friday — 105 degrees at 7:15 p.m., sunset coming on, the monthly festival filling the streets with food stalls, performers and open galleries. The film is mostly the walk and the festival grounds themselves: what First Friday actually feels like after dark, heat and all.

Key takeaways
  • Filmed August 2026. First Friday is the district's big monthly art-and-street festival. Parking near the district on festival nights is scarce or paid — the host parks at the Sahara and walks. Summer evenings stay hot well past sunset; dress for it.

3 New Bars to Check Out in the Arts District in Downtown Las Vegas!

City of Las Vegas

The City of Las Vegas' own September 2025 sampler of three new Arts District bars: Dustland, pouring a pickle beer that tastes like a sip and a bite at once; a second stop's shimmering lavender potion in a heart-shaped glass; and a final kitchen-bar slicing its own potatoes for house chips under chimichurri. Three bars, three vibes, five minutes.

Key takeaways
  • Produced by the City of Las Vegas (2025). A quick orientation, not a deep guide. New bars open constantly in 18b — check current listings. All three stops sit within a few blocks of Main Street.

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