Oak Creek Brewery in west Sedona has closed after 31 years. The brewery, which opened in June 1995, shut its doors last Saturday and hosted a farewell gathering on Sunday, Mouth by Southwest reported on Nov. 10. That is the west Sedona production brewery and brewpub, at 2050 Yavapai Drive. It is not the same business as Oak Creek Brewery & Grill in Tlaquepaque, which remains open.
Mouth by Southwest’s Jess Harter, writing Tuesday, described Oak Creek Brewery as one of Arizona’s oldest craft breweries and said it had poured its last pint at the west Sedona room. In a social media announcement cited by that report, the brewery thanked the locals, mug club members, musicians, friends and family who made the place a home for more than three decades. The Sunday gathering was a farewell, held the day after the close, not a sign that the Yavapai Drive room had reopened.
We tried, on the morning of Nov. 11, 2026, to confirm that announcement on the brewery’s own site and social channels. The official website at oakcreekbrew.com did not load from our newsroom check (the request timed out), and we could not reach a readable public view of the brewery’s Instagram or Facebook posts without a login wall. The last Internet Archive snapshot of the official homepage, captured July 14, 2026, still presented the west Sedona room as open, at 2050 Yavapai Drive, Sedona, Arizona 86336, with a 928-204-1300 phone number, and described the business as Sedona’s oldest microbrewery, “crafting authentic brews since 1995.” That snapshot is useful for the address and the brewery’s own then-current description; it is not a current hours listing, and it predates last Saturday’s close. The closure facts that follow, including the Saturday shutoff and the Sunday farewell, are attributed to Mouth by Southwest’s Nov. 10 report and to that outlet’s account of the brewery’s social post.
Oak Creek Brewery closed last Saturday; the Tlaquepaque grill did not
This distinction matters, because the two rooms share a name and a town. Oak Creek Brewery on Yavapai Drive, in west Sedona, is the location that closed last Saturday after 31 years. Oak Creek Brewery & Grill, a separate brewpub in the Tlaquepaque Arts & Shopping Village, remains open. Mouth by Southwest was explicit about that, and the grill’s official website was still live when we checked Nov. 11, listing hours of 11:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. every day and an address of 336 AZ-179, Suite D201, Sedona, AZ 86336, with a phone number of 928-282-3300.
The grill’s official FAQ, also checked Nov. 11, says the restaurant brews on site and that guests can see its copper tanks from the room. That FAQ still refers to “our sister company the Oak Creek Brewing Co. in West Sedona” as a place with live music, and it had not been updated, as of that check, to reflect last Saturday’s closure. We are not treating the stale FAQ line as evidence that the Yavapai Drive room is open. We are treating it only as the grill’s own description of the two businesses as sister companies, and as further reason to keep them straight: the grill is a different room, at a different address, with its own official site, and it is still listing hours.
Hoodline repeated the Mouth by Southwest account later on Nov. 10 and likewise stressed that the Tlaquepaque brewpub is separate and remains open. Hoodline also noted, citing the grill’s FAQ, that the Tlaquepaque location identifies the west Sedona operation as its sister company and says it brews its own beer on site. The same Hoodline item said the exact reasons for the west Sedona closure have not been disclosed. Mouth by Southwest did not give a reason either, and this article does not supply one.
What we know about the west Sedona room, and what we don’t
From the brewery’s own July 2026 homepage, Oak Creek Brewery presented itself as a west Sedona brewpub with an outdoor beer garden, a kitchen, weekend live music, and a mug club, at the Yavapai Drive address. Those were the brewery’s words before the close. They are not a menu or a hours listing for last week, and they should not be read as a plan for a new location, because no new west Sedona address has been announced in the coverage we have.
The 31-year span is straightforward arithmetic from the June 1995 opening that Mouth by Southwest, and the brewery’s own “since 1995” language, both use, through last Saturday, Nov. 7, 2026. Harter called Oak Creek Brewery one of Arizona’s oldest craft breweries; the brewery, on its official site, called itself Sedona’s oldest microbrewery. Those are their characterizations. This article does not independently rank Arizona brewery ages.
A last call at a 31-year-old brewpub is part of a harder stretch for small breweries, including rooms closer to home. Black Market Brewing in Temecula is preparing to close on Nov. 15 after 17 years, and Wilding Brands is shutting its Denver Canworks production plant while moving beer to a contract brewer. Those are different companies, with different reasons on the record. They do not explain Oak Creek Brewery’s decision, which, again, has not been explained in the reporting we have. For a longer view of how brewery ownership itself can shift, see our recent look at who owns Modern Times now.
If you went to Oak Creek Brewery for the west Sedona beer garden, that chapter ended last Saturday, with a farewell on Sunday. If you are looking for a pint in Sedona this week, Oak Creek Brewery & Grill at Tlaquepaque is the room that is still posting hours. Confirm those hours on the grill’s official site before you go, and do not confuse it with the Yavapai Drive brewery that has closed.
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