Three Floyds Brewing
craft brewery in Munster, IN
Three Floyds Brewing (3 Floyds) is a brewery founded in 1996 by brothers Nick and Simon and their father Mike Floyd in Hammond, Indiana. Since 2000, the brewery has been located in Munster, Indiana. In 2011, an article in The Washington Post said that Three Floyds "has won over the beer geek elite", and "has been making the best beers on the planet for four of the past five years—at least according to the more than 1 million beer reviews logged each year on RateBeer.com. (In 2008, it slipped to second place.)"
In 2018, Three Floyds cracked the top 50 list of Brewing companies by sales volume reaching the #39 spot in craft brewery sales and #49 spot in overall brewery sales. By 2026, Three Floyds had expanded distribution to 22 states.
History
Nick, Simon, and Mike Floyd opened Three Floyds Brewing in 1996 in Hammond, Indiana operating out of an old auto garage. The original brewing system was made of a Canfield's cola tank with wok burners and Swiss cheese fermenters salvaged from Wisconsin. The three purchased a warehouse in Munster in 2000 to house the brewery. Three Floyds opened a brewpub adjacent to the brewery in 2005. By 2012 Three Floyds was producing 10,000 barrels per year.
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