SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA
Wide open spaces out there. A full room in here.
Fernson Downtown is our taproom, coffeehouse and kitchen on Phillips Avenue. Coffee and breakfast from 7:30 in the morning, Totally Rad Eats until late, and whatever we have poured onto the tap wall that week.
Find Fernson
Four doors with our name on them, and only one of them is a taproom
People still drive out to Robur Drive expecting a pint. Here is where everything actually is, so you end up in the right room.
Open seven days
Fernson Downtown
The one to come to. Taproom, coffeehouse and kitchen in the same room on Phillips Avenue, with a patio out the back. Crowlers to take home.
Events and kegs only
The brewery on Robur Drive
Where the beer is made. There are no regular taproom hours here at the moment, so please do not drive out for a pint. The room is still ours for parties, and kegs are still sold from this door.
On tap and in cans
Around South Dakota
Liquor stores, grocery stores, bars and restaurants across the state carry us. If your local does not, ask them for it. That is genuinely how we end up there.
Next door
Totally Rad Pizza
The pizza side of the family. If you came for Totally Rad and left wanting a whole pie, this is where that happens.
Totally Rad Eats
A kitchen that takes a smash burger seriously
Breakfast sandwiches and burritos from half past seven, burgers and tendies through the day, biscuits and a brunch burger at the weekend. The Totally Rad was on GGG, and it is still $16 with fries. Every price is on the menu page, and you can build an order while you read it.
Our beer
Four we brew all year, and a few that come and go
Every one of them has a number on it, so here they are with the numbers showing. If you are standing at the bar deciding, start at the top of the list and work down by strength.
Shy Giant IPA
Grapefruit and citrus on the nose, then enough malt behind it to stay upright. A big beer that does not beat its chest about it.
- ABV
- 7.0%
- IBU
- 55
- Dry hop
- Mosaic, Citra
- Year round
Lion’s Paw Lager
Deep copper and properly malty, and still tame enough to drink all evening. Pluck a thorn from the paw of a lion and you have a companion for years.
- ABV
- 4.5%
- IBU
- 24
- Hops
- Hallertau Mittelfrüh
- Year round
Curio Sour ale
Tart and full of citrus, finishing somewhere between lemonade and grapefruit. The one to hand someone who says they do not like beer.
- ABV
- 4.0%
- IBU
- 4
- Hops
- Cascade
- Year round
Farmhouse Petite saison
French-style, citrus and spice, bright and crisp. It took the session beer gold medal at the 2018 World Beer Cup.
- ABV
- 4.5%
- IBU
- 24
- Hops
- Belma
- Year round
Gallivant Hazy IPA, wandering hop series
Same beer, new hops every batch, which is the whole point of it. Batch 11 was Mosaic, Idaho 7 and Cryopop.
- ABV
- 7.3%
- IBU
- 50
- Dry hop
- Changes
- Limited
Your event at Fernson
Three rooms, a full bar and a kitchen that caters
Holiday parties, retirements, networking nights, baby showers, wedding rehearsals and receptions. Tell us the date and roughly how many, and we will tell you which room fits and what it costs.
The brewery taproom
Looks straight out over the brewhouse, so your guests get to watch the tanks while they eat. A variety of seating. Robur Drive.
The Totally Rad basement
Downstairs at Fernson Downtown, with the kitchen directly above it. A room with a door you can close.
The Downtown back patio
Outside on Phillips Avenue, for the handful of months South Dakota allows it.
Our story
It started with a friendship and a garage brew
For as long as we have made beer, we have cared about the stories around it. The one about your trip to Germany, the one about how IPAs came to be, the one your dad tells that probably is not true.
Despite the wide open spaces on the Great Plains, we make beer that brings folks closer. Humbly made with people in mind, proudly brewed in South Dakota.
