Our Story

Like most brewers, our journey of brewing beer started on our kitchen stove. From there, we scaled, created and innovated our own unique style of beer and in 2018, opened the doors to our very own brewery and tap room! Since the very first kit beer, all the way up to professional brewing, our passion to create unique, fun, and flavor beers as well as classic styles we all know and love is second to none!

Our Brewery

Harbor Brewing Company opened in May 2018. We started on a small 1bbl brewhouse utilizing 4 1bbl fermenters. Quickly realizing we could not keep up with demand, we added 4 more 1bbl fermenters shortly after. Within the first few months we struggled to keep beer on tap.

After 4 months, we still could not keep up and decided to scale up our brewhouse to a 3.5bbl system. A few years later, in January 2022, we opened the doors of our new Lake Villa Brewery, Taproom and Event Venue sporting a new, much larger 15bbl brewhouse to keep up with production!