10 Best Breweries in Mississippi—and 30 Beers Worth Trying

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Suzy B gives this Hattiesburg flight a useful starting point: an unfiltered blonde ale at 5%, with the brewery describing a malt foundation and balanced bitterness. Its pleasant hop aroma does not turn it into a pale ale, which was an incorrect classification in the older guide.

Use Suzy B as the lower-strength reference before the two IPAs. Compare the malt impression and finish rather than treating pale color as a promise of identical flavor. The brewery’s description identifies an unfiltered beer; it does not establish a fruit addition or a particular dietary certification.

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Devil’s Harvest is the session IPA in this trio, listed at 4.9% on the brewery-authored profile. Oats support its cloudy presentation, while Citra and Mosaic provide the hop focus. The brewer specifically describes whirlpool and dry hopping as ways to emphasize aroma while limiting bitterness.

This is a useful comparison with Crowd Control because the hop-forward character arrives at a much lower alcohol strength. Taste how aroma, body and finish relate before assuming that more hops must mean more bitterness. The selected beer is regular Devil’s Harvest, rather than a separately named variant.

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Crowd Control moves the same brewery flight to 8% ABV. The brewery-authored description emphasizes Mosaic hops, dry hopping and a solid malt backbone, while the current menu describes citrus, pine and mango notes. Those are flavor descriptions; they do not establish added mango or citrus juice.

Place this stronger beer after Suzy B and Devil’s Harvest if you are comparing the three in small pours. Its imperial IPA identity is the useful distinction, with more alcohol than either companion. Do not treat the three selections as interchangeable simply because all can show some hop aroma.

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Surfside combines a wheat-beer base with a specific fruit ingredient: the brewery-authored profile says real pineapple juice is added during fermentation. White and red wheat contribute to the described soft mouthfeel. The producer places Surfside in its year-round portfolio, rather than its rotating-beer group.

Compare this 4.8% wheat beer with Guava Jelly’s sour identity before deciding that every tropical fruit beer tastes alike. Pineapple is an actual recipe claim here, unlike the pineapple tasting language used for some IPAs elsewhere in the guide. Year-round portfolio status still does not guarantee today’s stock.

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Guava Jelly occupies the sour side of this Gulfport trio. Chandeleur’s producer sales sheet lists 6% ABV and explains that a golden ale is soured with the house culture before guava puree is added during secondary fermentation. This is an explicit fruit ingredient, not a guessed tropical flavor addition.

Compare its tartness and guava presentation with Surfside’s pineapple-and-wheat base. The sales sheet also mentions banana, pear and other tropical fruits as flavor comparisons; it does not identify all of those as additions. The producer’s Gulf Sour Series listing describes this release without guaranteeing continuous availability.

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Curlew’s Toasted Coconut Porter adds a darker beer to the flight, with a 5.8% strength on the producer’s sales sheet. The brewer describes coconut being added to the aging tanks. Its portfolio places Curlew among rotating beers, a distinction that matters when planning around a particular draft.

Use the porter to explore a different malt foundation after the wheat and sour selections. The producer attributes coffee, chocolate and toffee notes to roasted malts, while coconut is an actual addition. That distinction does not establish added coffee or lactose; confirm the actual formulation when an ingredient restriction matters.

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Amber Coastal Lager is the beer featured by name on Fly Llama’s current home page, and its exact profile records 5% ABV. It is an amber lager selection, not the older pale Fly Llager profile at 4.7%. Keeping those names separate avoids attaching an older beer’s details to current packaging.

Start the Biloxi comparison with this lager, then move to Bridget’s wheat-and-yeast identity and Fly-Pa’s hop emphasis. Color can help organize the flight, but it cannot supply an ingredient list. The producer’s older beer-page heading remains ambiguous, so this card avoids transferring its rice claim to Amber Coastal Lager.

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Bridget is a Belgian-style witbier at 5.1% on the producer’s beer page and exact profile. The brewery explicitly identifies citrus peel and spices alongside delicate yeast character. Those recipe details distinguish it from a plain wheat ale, even when both can pour pale and lightly cloudy.

Compare Bridget’s spice-and-yeast impression with Fly-Pa’s hop-derived citrus language. Here, citrus peel is an actual brewing ingredient, while the IPA’s tropical and citrus notes describe its hop presentation. The available description does not name every spice, so it should not be expanded into a guessed recipe.

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Fly-Pa completes Fly Llama’s trio as an American IPA at 5.6%. The producer describes a little malt, a large dry hop, some bitterness and a bold tropical-citrus impression. This is the hop-focused comparison beside Amber Coastal Lager and Bridget, rather than another flavored wheat beer.

A useful flight follows the source of flavor: lager structure, witbier peel and spices, then IPA hops. Fly-Pa’s description does not establish added tropical fruit, even though those words appear in the tasting language. Follow the actual package and batch if a newer release changes the stated strength.

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Forgotten Space is the hop-led member of Fertile Ground’s Jackson trio. Its producer page lists 6% ABV and names Galaxy, Citra, El Dorado, Cashmere and Pacific Sunrise in the dry hop. The description emphasizes a soft tropical-fruit impression followed by subtle bitterness.

Those named hops give the beer a concrete point of comparison with the guide’s other IPAs, but the tropical language does not prove fruit was added. Explore how the finish differs from Lingering Leed’s malt-led lager character. The producer’s year-round designation describes the portfolio rather than guaranteeing a particular visit’s pour.

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Lingering Leed is a Munich-style helles lager described by Fertile Ground as clean, malty and crisp, with low floral or herbal hop flavor. The current producer page lists 4.4% ABV. Its older beer profile retains 4.3%, so this card uses the producer figure without averaging the two.

The producer describes four to six weeks of lagering and natural carbonation, useful process details beside Forgotten Space’s dry-hop focus. Compare the malt balance and restrained hop impression with Mr. Sippi’s pilsner later in the guide. Check the actual batch if the label or tap menu gives a newer strength.

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Colson’s Original is Fertile Ground’s golden ale at 4.6% ABV on its own product page. The producer describes light citrus and fruity notes rather than documenting an added fruit ingredient. That makes it a separate point of comparison from both the helles lager and the IPA in this trio.

Golden ale and helles can occupy similar-looking places in a flight while reflecting different beer identities. Compare the described fruity character with Lingering Leed’s malt and restrained floral-herbal hops. Keep Colson’s Original tied to its exact name and formulation; a pale appearance alone does not establish the same recipe.

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Mississippi Queen is a core blonde ale at 5.2% on Key City’s producer page. The brewery describes a bright, toasty character and lists both draft and twelve-ounce cans. Its history on the producer page establishes it as an early brewery beer, without making today’s inventory a certainty.

Use Mississippi Queen to compare a blonde ale with Mr. Sippi’s pilsner identity in the same Vicksburg flight. Similar color does not establish the same fermentation or finish. The brewery’s toasty description supplies a tasting direction; it does not justify inventing a specific malt bill or hop variety.

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Mr. Sippi is the pilsner in Key City’s core portfolio, with the producer describing doughy bread, honeysuckle and slight bitterness. Its current product page lists 4.5% ABV, while the older exact profile retains 4.2%. The current producer figure takes priority in this guide.

Honeysuckle appears as tasting language rather than a verified flower addition, and doughy bread describes the malt impression. Compare that balance with Mississippi Queen’s toastiness before the stronger double IPA. Follow the actual serving batch if an updated package or menu supersedes either of the retained online strengths.

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Death on Two Legs is Key City’s double IPA at 9.5% on its producer page. The brewery’s tasting language moves through dank hops, pineapple, orange marmalade, blood orange and a pithy stone-fruit finish. Those descriptors are not a documented list of fruit ingredients.

This is the strongest beer selected in the Mississippi guide, so a small comparison pour helps keep its role distinct from the blonde ale and pilsner. The producer identifies a core beer available in draft and cans. Core status does not establish the current inventory, and the actual package should settle batch-specific details.

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Bluff City is Natchez’s American blonde ale, listed at 4.5% on the venue’s online draft menu and its exact profile. The brewery-authored description identifies a straw-colored, light-bodied beer with a hint of hops. It offers a lower-strength reference beside Capital and Uncle Neville the Devil.

Compare Bluff City with Mississippi Queen to explore two breweries’ blonde-ale descriptions without claiming they share a recipe. The Natchez selection is tied to the named beer on the current menu snapshot. Check the day’s actual menu before travel, because a retained online listing cannot guarantee the next keg.

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Capital is a New England-style hazy IPA at 6% on the brewery venue’s online menu and exact profile. Natchez’s brewery-authored description identifies Citra, El Dorado and Mosaic in the dry hop. The selected beer is Capital, with that exact name and strength, rather than an invented Old Capital variant.

Compare its hop combination with Forgotten Space’s five-variety dry hop, then consider the red IPA beside it in this flight. Haze and hop aroma are useful tasting observations, but they do not establish added juice. The beer description supplies hops, not a complete recipe or a promise of stock on every visit.

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Uncle Neville the Devil is a red IPA at 7% on Natchez’s online venue menu. The brewery-authored profile names two-row, Carahell, Caramunich and a little chocolate malt, alongside Cascade and Centennial in the whirlpool and dry hop. Its described citrus-pine character sits over a caramel malt foundation.

This selection gives the Natchez flight a malt-and-hop comparison beyond the hazy IPA. Chocolate malt is a named grain here, not proof of added chocolate confectionery. Compare how the richer malt impression changes the hop presentation while keeping the profile’s formulation separate from any later recipe revision.

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Arm Chair Amber is the exact name on Mississippi Ale House’s brewery-authored profile, with a strength of 5.3% ABV. The profile classifies it as an American amber ale. It is a house-beer selection for comparison, while the venue’s wider rotating tap collection also includes beers from other producers.

Compare Arm Chair Amber with Ale House Light before the more hop-forward Old Towne IPA. The available profile provides style and strength but little recipe detail, so this guide does not invent a malt bill or a guaranteed caramel flavor. Ask for the current house-beer list when visiting Olive Branch.

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Ale House Light is listed at 4.2% on Mississippi Ale House’s brewery-authored profile and classified as a blonde or golden ale. The word Light does not establish a lager, a calorie count or a dietary claim. Its lower alcohol strength is the documented contrast within this three-beer selection.

Use it as the starting point if the current house menu includes all three selections, then compare the amber and IPA. The profile does not provide a complete ingredient list or process description. This card keeps the limited evidence visible rather than supplying an assumed adjunct recipe from the beer’s name.

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Old Towne IPA is the house American IPA listed at 6.2% on Mississippi Ale House’s brewery-authored profile. Its description identifies Centennial hops, giving it a concrete comparison point with Natchez’s Cascade-and-Centennial red IPA. Shared hops do not establish the same malt foundation or fermentation profile.

This selection completes an Olive Branch flight across a lower-strength blonde ale, amber ale and IPA. Check whether all three house beers are actually available rather than treating the venue’s many taps as proof. The retained beer profile documents the named recipe, while the current tap list settles what can be ordered.