In honor of Huntsville History Month we're having a Shelta Cavern History Day in the Straight to Ale Speakeasy on October 17th. The National Speleological Society will be on site with several cave scientists sharing the history of the cave. Our Distillers will be on site to answer questions about the spirits, and we'll have some special cocktails for the occasion! This will also be a brews to benefit style event, where Straight to Ale will donate $1 from every pint purchased between 5-8pm in the speakeasy to the National Speleological Society.
Founded by local home brewers in 2009, Straight to Ale has quickly grown to become one of Alabama’s largest production breweries. Starting small with a 3 Barrel brewhouse in 500 square feet in Huntsville’s Historic Lincoln Mill, we realized that we greatly underestimated Alabama’s thirst for locally produced craft beer and moved into a 10,000 square foot production facility on Leeman Ferry Road in south Huntsville. Over the next few years we added more and more fermentation capacity in that location until it was full, reaching 1,000 barrels of capacity. Though this location is no longer in operation, it was an integral step in our expansion.