Mad Beach Craft Brewing

The food wasn’t very good and the portions were very small. The A/​C was not working. The service wasn’t good too.

This is MY kind of place. Great beers on tap and the Sangria from tap was to die for. Red Sangria and Watermelon… YUM. Only had the pretzel with beer cheese, but that was pretty tasty. I hear it gets pretty busy and I can see why. Very cool vibe. Nice wait staff. Definitely will be back to try more.

Pretty nice brewery in John’s Pass! Visited today and the staff was very friendly and attentive. I had a combo of their notorious white sangria and the mead on draft. Gotta love a drink that’s dressed with an umbrella, even so a beer! :)
The brewery is also a restaurant and I plan to go back for some of their selections. They have plenty of table space and TVs. They accommodate kids both indoors and out, and also your pups on the deck outside. Most beers are around $ 5-​$ 8 depending on the complexity. I can see this brewery going far because they have so many different things to offer. Many beers, plenty of space and a broad food menu. I hope to see lots from Mad Beach in the future!

Mad Beach brews a grapefruit ale which, INHO, is the best I’ve ever tasted!
Because Mad Beach sponsors the Madeira Beach 5K Sunset Series, I want to support them. So, because I was working Madeira Beach Triathlon Packet Pickup, I decided to grab a bit and a brew beforehand.
It was my first visit and I had no idea what to expect! A tasting room made to party your azz off? A menu that can compete and has something for everyone!
I decided on trying Life’s a Beach, an Orange Blossom Honey Wheat! I selected the Triple Threat Sliders for variety and didn’t want to get too filled up. Pulled pork, Seared Pork Belly, & Ground Angus Burger! Yeah, so tasty and achieved my goal! Damn, it was tasty! I’m repeating myself. But that’s how good it was.
I got to meet Chef Tyson, and give him props for a special I saw on the menu and didn’t order. His creation, a «Wasamelon Scallops,» is a bacon wrapped sea scallops over a watermelon crean sauce made with fresh watermelon, ginger and their own Wasa watermelon sangria! Are you kidding me? I might come back tonight for dinner!
My review can’t do Mad Beach justice! Make your way to Mad Beach and prepare to be served! Aloha!

Upstairs in johns pass you will find this amazing brewhouse, with its own beers and ciders in draft this place is a winner winner chicken dinner. Talking of food this place excels itself with a wide variety of dishes on offer, each one we have tried has been excellent.
Any place that takes the time to have two ciders brewed in house and these excellent tots fondue is a must stop when in this part of the country.

Love this place just across from Maderia Beach! Great for us locals and tourists as well. Some great craft beers with a little twist. Try the Coco Cidar ¼ and the keylime draft ¾. Something the summer can’t live without.
The food is clean and fresh from the kitchen. They care so much that each time we have been there the Chef/​Manager Tyson comes around himself asking and speaking with the guest. Their sliders are phenomenal as well as the pulled pork. I do it without the cheese.
It’s great to have place where the food is good and the band is as good Try a growler of your favorite brew to take home!

Fish Spread, Nachos, Burgers, Poutine, not a bad thing on the menu. Great for adults and families. Craft brews are delicious.

I went here with a group of 6 people on a day of drinking and cheating on our diets, and this place definitely enhanced our ability to do that. The drinks were good but the food was the fatty, to-​die-​for fare of a legendary cheat-​day.
I’ve gotta say, walking in here I was expecting a very average burgers-​and-​brews type of place. It’s a very basic bar/​restaurant concept upstairs at John’s Pass. The main dining area is compose of long raised tables, there’s a few pool tables, but all the decorations are beach and Florida related. It’s sort of exactly what you would expect when you step into a beer-​based restaurant on a beach, but a bigger space than one would usually find for that sort of place.
Our waitress was awesome. The restaurant wasn’t really busy so she felt very comfortable chatting with us, giving us recommendations, and just all around being pleasant to talk to. She also got us our food in a timely manner, and there were no mistakes in our order, so A+ on that respect.
Their drink offerings are surprisingly small for a place with brewing in the name, but all of the beers we ordered were greatly enjoyed. Instead of beer, I got the mead, which is something I haven’t had in ages, and it was incredibly delicious. Now, the food there is not what you’d call light. I’m sure it’s *possible* to eat light there, but that was not our goal. We started off with the Tots Poutine and the Pork Pulling Nachos. Both were delicious, with a good meat to cheese to base ratio, but the Tots Poutine was disappointingly small, especially compared to the mountain of nachos. For our main, I got the Beer Belly Sandwich, the rest of my table got various sandwiches and one person got the Smuggler’s Pie. My sandwich was a monstrosity of pork belly and onion rings, too big to get your mouth around, but exactly what you need after a day of being out in the sun drinking. Everyone else cleaned their plates as well, and overall the opinion was that this was a great choice for our meal.
The prices were fair but sorta all across the board. The Tots Poutine was almost as much as my Beer Belly Sandwich but maybe a quarter the amount of food, and I think that’s because the Beer Belly is almost unreasonably cheap. On the other hand the fish is pretty pricey here and some of the bigger apps like the Nachos cost more than the main meal. It’s not unfair or anything, it’s just tough to gauge what to look for if you’re eating on a budget. But then again you could go in there and get a beer and a huge pork belly sandwich and pay less than $ 20, and that’s an amazing deal.
This place is a great place to go for a treat. Let yourself eat more than you usually would, and order some great beer. But if you’re looking for a fine dining establishment this isn’t your place, which is fine, but just know what you’re going for.

Dear Susie, thanks for the liberal pours and the lively conversation. I enjoyed the libations but one urinal is a little too short. The doughnut onion rings really hit the spot; PS that’s what you should call them. Your beer flights are pretty good deal minus the 2 ounces you screwed me out of but that’s just math and I’m not mad at you for it. I think you’re great bartender and everyone should have to work in the service industry at least some point in their life. your regular IPAs pretty good but people probably shouldn’t drink the session one also your yam beer is GD terrible but I think you guys already know that. People you should go here not because I said so but kind of because I’m smarter than they are.

When thinking of craft dining, you dont expect Madeira Beach to deliver in a more remarkable fashion! Tourists can now experience a tasteful menu of creativity that can’t be found anywhere on the boardwalk. From seafood to savory apps, there was something for everyone (Gluten-​free choices as well!). The service was phenomenal. Our server, Jessica was funny, charismatic and knowledgeable just adding to our experience.
The beers, along with the ciders were tasteful and plentiful.
We discovered this place after a stroll in search of a seafood lunch on the boardwalk. Mad Beach Restaurant and Brewery provides a cleaner/​refreshing family atmosphere than any spot we walked past. Make this your first stop on your visit to keep your spirits high (and standards!) for the rest of your time at Mad Beach!

Cool place for craft beer. Has corn hole, pool tables, and air hockey. Or just come in and watch a game on one of their large Tvs. Good place to chill!

I’m always on the lookout for brewpubs, I’m a big craft beer fan. The problem is my friend is not a big beer drinker so she usually ends up the designated driver by default. I hope that other brewpubs follow the example of Mad Beach and start to brew an array of ciders. She really liked the Watermelon Cider as well as the Coconut and Key Lime Pie. Beers were also good Dolphins Drool and Octohopupus were pretty good IPAs and the I Yam What I Yam with the cinnamon sugar on the rim tasted just like pumpkin pie. The outside, upstairs, balcony seating was nice. The benches were nice, they had thick cushions to sit on and metal siding underneath that I kept kicking.
The food was a mix. The smoked fish dip was really good but the onion rings had an off day. They were huge but a little over done. Our waitress, Mitzi, was fantastic, helped us with our drink choices, explained the rings were usually better, tried to fix them and eventually took them off the bill. She was attentive, friendly, a real delight.
The other plus to this place is that it is about the only true brew pub on the St. Petersburg Gulf Coast.

A few weeks so my husband asked about breweries to take his friend too. I listed a few and they decided to come here. Now it’s my first time here. We came with my husbands friend and one of his coworkers and her friend. We all decided to order flights. Great thing about it was we could create our own flights! Nothing that’s already pre-​done for the menu. Choose your 6 choices and they bring it out in order as you had written them on your card. We didn’t order food since we had eaten prior. One of the girls order pulled pork nachos for the table. And fighting out temptations was so hard! I had a few and it was delicious! So, since beers have been a problem for me for a few years now I have to stick with ciders. Luckily they had some to choose from and then I chose some of the different sangria’s. Here is my flight in order and how each tasted to me:
Savvy cider — lovely bubbly and sparkly flavor.
Coco Cidra — a creamy flavor of coconut in my mouth, smells like spices. Ok… literally it tasted like I was drinking coconut lotion and it left a thick film in my mouth. Sounds weird, but it’s a good thing. ;)
WaSa — a liquid watermelon jolly rancher!
Cabia– light smooth ginseng/​green tea flavor
Sevora — red sangria just a nice fruit punch flavor.
Life’s a Beach– light honey taste and that beer feel as it goes down.
Really loved coming here and meeting new people. The nachos taste amazing. My husband mentioned the onion rings on his first visit and said they were bland. I still want to give them a try because I love onion rings!
My only reason to give it 4 stars was our server. When he asked if we had more people coming we said yes. He must’ve taken it as we planned to wait for them to arrive before ordering. So we literally sat there what felt like an hour. Finally the other girl came and we were still waiting. Our server walking by and I looked at him, asked, «we’re ready to order», and it’s like he didn’t even hear me.” Another server noticed and asked us if we needed to order and she got our guy. This happened not once but twice. It was like he was zoned out. But still a good experience here. Will come back to try more of the food.

The shining star of this place? Chef Tyson. All through the night he was checking in on us. Making us laugh. Even got me a drink to make up for being out of vanilla ice cream ;) Talk about hospitality! In a world where service is lacking, this guy is a rock star.
The space is open and has some huge tables that can accommodate some large groups. Indoor Cornhole. Reggae playing in the back ground. You could stay awhile. When there are 20 drafts it makes it even easier.
The good Floridian she is, my wife drank the orange wheat beer… three of them. Obviously she was a fan. They have sangria on tap.10%abv. I had two of the white and chef Tyson let me try the watermelon. Both refreshing and tasty. I’d recommend the watermelon after dinner as it taste almost like a jolly rancher ;)
The French onion soup broth was very good. Instead of croutons it has pork belly. I didn’t realize until I put it on my mouth but it was a nice surprise. Lol
We had the Gaspar shrimp. Love the veggies and slightly sweet coconut flavor of the rice. Shrimp cooked perfectly. We tried the cheese dip. I could eat this like soup! It was a highlight. The wedge salad had great blistered tomatoes but I wish there had been a few more. My wife was crazy about the sweet potato casserole. I stole a bite of the marshmallow top. Yum! We finished with the key lime crème brûlée. The top was not that hard sugar that I love but the custard was perfectly done and my wife ate every bite.
Thanks Mad Beach! We had a great night ;)

Let’s start with the drink selections. They have a large craft beer selection for a variety of palates. Personally, I dream about the house-​made white sangria. Its like Capri Sun for adults. The ciders are also tasty with unique flavors, like coconut and key lime. We have been a few times for the brews and have always enjoyed ourselves.
The ambiance gets 5 stars. You forget that you are in strip shopping center in the heart of tourist-​ville.
Now for the food. I will say that we went during the Super Bowl and that they were unexpectedly slammed. The full service food menu is also somewhat new for them. Our wings and tots fondue took a ridiculously long time. Well, it really wasn’t until we said something that they appeared. The tots fondue was mediocre, basically tots with Velveeta. The wings are fine but the blue cheese is kind of watery.
The desserts were fabulous. This is actually food that requires them to cook and they do it right. The crème brulee and the banana split were a nice way to top off the meal and I recommend the drink pairings with them.
We were pretty unhappy about the length of time it took for the initial food but will say that Tyson, the manager/​chef made it right.
This is a great place for locals to go and also a perfect place to bring out of town guests.

This is a pretty cool brewery located in the John’s Pass area (near Treasure Island). This place has a big open floor plan, with plenty of long tables and room for pool tables and other games like cornhole and jenga. The lighting in Mad Beach is unique as well, not too bright and not too dark. There are also tables outside on the deck when you enter.
The craft beer menu had some pretty interesting brews. We got a flight of a few different ones to try and you can get six of any beer in your flight. The most interesting was the Girl Scout stout, which tastes like thin mints. They also had a maple bacon stout, which has a great smoky flavor and gives you that «breakfast at ihop» feeling. The IPAs were also very good here, up to 9−10% abv
I wasn’t too crazy for the onion rings but I highly suggest ordering the wings! The wing sauce is pretty addicting! The food menu has some interesting choices, esp a jelly donut burger if you’re feeling adventurous. Some of the food can be a little on the higher side, but there are still plenty of good food items if you tend want to spend as much. Overall, very good experience and would definitely come here again.

Craft breweries are kind of my thing. I knew that I needed to visit Mad Beach when the opportunity presented itself on a recent beach trip.
Mad Beach is a large tasting room. There are several tables, some games, and a stage. Seating is in somewhat of a banquet hall style and we all gathered at large tables. Our waitress was extremely attentive and frequently checked on us.
We ordered beers samplers and the nachos. The beers were quite tasty and unique. The nachos were out of this world — much better than I would have expected for brewery food. Next time I’m at the beach, I will certainly make it a point to visit Mad Beach Craft Brewing again!

I’ve been a fan of Mad Beach Brewing for a while. The space is gigantic and full of fun including giant Jenga, pool, and air hockey. There’s plenty of seating at tables and the bar. The giant screen is fun for sports or their movie nights. There’s also a DJ some nights and room for dancing.
Added to this is the awesome décor and some pretty tasty IPAs. The staff is ALWAYS nice and efficient. However, the addition of the menu has brought this brewery to a whole new level! I enjoyed the plantanos and putine side. The bacon cheeseburger was also quite enjoyable.
I will definitely be back to try to conquer the beer belly!

We visited the Mad Beach Brewery during the John’s Pass seafood festival on Madeira Beach and even though it was busy, the bar is very long and this place is huge with high ceilings to give the place a real open airy feel! The side wall has a shell of a huge school bus, they have the largest Jenga I have ever seen, they have 2 air hockey tables, corn-​hole, and darts! Mad Beach Brewery offers food too but we already ate elsewhere for the seafood festival. We had the 6 flight sampler for $ 10 and the flights were big enough to split with 2 people. The mango habanero brew had a nice kick to it, pirate booty orange honey Mead was my favorite, the key lime pie beer was sweet and tangy, sweet potato beer was nice, and dolphin drool beer had a funny name and was pretty good too. They also have a Vanilla Coffee stout that sounded nice but I didn’t try that. They even had sangrias.
Cons: Service is slow and pricing is a bit higher than average. Parking by John’s Pass is not easy either as this area is always full of tourists.

Really great tasting beers with an awesome place to hang out at the bar or play some games with friends in the back. Some of the best tasters if the day were the honey mead and key lime pie cider… yum!
As with all breweries, the prices are right and the flights that get you six for $ 10 is the way to go. We tried a wide variety including a couple of stouts, ipas, and a double ipa all of which were very drinkable.
My only drawback for this place is being located in what is now a true tourist trap of Johns Pass. I think we were the only local people in the area which is kind of weird in a local craft brewery, but I won’t hold that against them. I will definitely be back to drink more of their delicious beverages and will hopefully take home a growler next time.