Campfire Brewing on Frost Road reads as a neighborhood taproom that grew out of a garage hobby, not a polished franchise prototype. The bar leads with house beer but also pours wine, spirits, cocktails, and non-alcoholic beer, which fits the mixed tables you actually see in suburbs on a Friday. The address is 6300 Frost Road, Westerville, Ohio 43082. After 8 p.m. the taproom is adults only, and posted hours can still move with holidays or private events, so it is worth confirming the day you go. Onsite parking fills on busy nights; overflow is across the street at Shamrock Towing.
Hero photography published on Campfire Brewing’s Squarespace homepage.
Neighbors, garage smoke, and a bet that became a brewery
Campfire’s published origin is straightforward neighborhood lore. Four Westerville dads bonded over family, community, and beer. It starts on a Saturday morning in 2019 when Dan fired up a homebrew session in his garage. Eric, a neighbor with roughly a decade of homebrewing behind him, and Brett, the hands-on fixer type from next door, crossed the property line to help instead of only waving from the driveway. Football on the radio, steam off the kettle, and shared samples turned three households into a crew.
Weekends settled into a routine. Someone would joke about a “smoke signal” when a new batch was ready, and the backyard campfire drew neighbors with kids, music, and yard games. The story mentions the COVID years as a stretch when the outdoor fire still gave people a place to see each other with distance. Roland joined in 2021, and in their telling he pushed the group to turn the project into a brewery instead of leaving it in the garage forever.
What followed was three years of upgraded gear, hundreds of gallons of practice beer, and steady talk about standards and flavor targets until the team opened professionally on Frost Road in 2025, about one mile from that first garage. Columbus Monthly contributor Joshua M. Bernstein, writing in Columbus Alive in April 2025, reported a January opening for Roland Reeb, Brett Haaser, Dan Haskins, and Eric Hatton in a building that had most recently been a salvage yard, with board games, yard games, and open views of active brewing on site.
The Ohio Craft Brewers Association lists the same four names as owners with Eric Hatton as head brewer. The association page still mentions food trucks among amenities, while Campfire’s own visitor-facing pages now center Antonio’s Pizzeria inside the building, so I treat the brewery site as the current operating picture and OCBA as a directory that can lag behind day-to-day changes.
Frost Road nights and the clock on the door
Monday through Thursday the taproom runs 4 p.m. to 10 p.m., Friday opens at 2 p.m. and runs to 11 p.m., Saturday and Sunday open at noon with a Saturday close at 11 p.m. and Sunday at 9 p.m. That Friday 2 p.m. start and Sunday 9 p.m. close differ from what you will see in some third-party tables, including the OCBA grid as of this writing, so I would trust Campfire’s published contact block when you set a meetup time. For questions or event chatter, the team publishes contact@campfirebrewing.com.
Those hours skew toward after-work pours through the week, a longer Friday window, and a Sunday close at 9 p.m. that still respects school-night logistics.
Beer list hero image from Campfire Brewing’s published beer list page.
Beer on the board
The house list is wide enough that a single visit will not cover it. An online tap list updated April 23, 2026 still opens with Hop Monster, a New England IPA on Columbus, Citra, Amarillo, and Mosaic pitched as approachable rather than punishingly bitter. Winter Warmer sits at 8.1 percent ABV with cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove in the description, while Frosted Tents is a cold IPA built around Citra with lager yeast noted for a dry finish.
Spicy Nights habanero stout sits on the same board as Hefe 62 hefeweizen, Big Boy wee heavy, and Dawn doppelbock, which is a wide spread from heat and roast to lighter wheat and big malt sweetness. Ember stays in Irish red territory, Mosaic Double IPA lists 7.5 percent ABV and eighty IBU, and THE Campfire is the house specialty IPA with Centennial hops and a light smoked-malt note.
Belgian pale, dunkelweizen, Berliner Weisse, Mexican lager, rye IPA, and other year-round styles fill the middle of the sheet, plus guest cider from Seek-No-Further for cider drinkers. Flights are four five-ounce pours, which fits a board this long.
Bernstein’s spring 2025 roundup described the tap list leaning toward warming, fire-adjacent beers, including a malty Scottish ale and a chocolate stout pitched alongside s’mores, plus a lightly smoky IPA. Names rotate, so treat that column as a snapshot of the opening season rather than a frozen menu, and use the dated online list when you want proof of what is pouring now.
Antonio’s back under the same roof as the taps
Westerville already knew Antonio’s before Frost Road. Sam and Frances Giuliani opened the original Uptown shop in 1977, ran it for decades on scratch recipes, then stepped away when a chain sale pulled the name off the block. Frances came back with her son Robert and niece Rita. Campfire’s Antonio’s page now carries a “NOW OPEN” headline and the same neighbor-focused language about feeding the community from the Frost Road kitchen.
Bernstein’s April 2025 piece still mentioned rotating food trucks, including Texas Steele BBQ, as part of the campfire theme. Campfire’s own FAQ today points visitors to Antonio’s menu for meals and lists s’mores kits, pretzels, and chips as taproom snacks, which is the clearest read on how dinner service has settled since opening.
On a late April 2026 flight night, Untappd user 5oz-queen compared Dawn to a whiskey Gold Rush in beer form and logged tasters of Winter Warmer, Spicy Nights, and Starry Nights at the bar. Jacob Fair, posting as Cobb24, checked in Campfire IPA the same weekend, which at least confirms those handles were live even when the tasting notes stayed short.
Food photography published on Campfire Brewing’s Antonio’s Pizzeria page.
Campfire still sells s’mores kits, pretzels, and chips for snackers, and the house asks you to leave outside food at home except for celebration sweets, which lines up with running a pizzeria partner on site. On One Bite’s thread for the Frost Road Antonio’s listing, daniel.js scored an 8.2 in June 2022 and called the pies crisp, flavorful, and consistent across cheese and specialty orders. don.harter landed at 7.1 in May 2020 with praise for sauce and cheese but a note about thicker crust than they prefer. david.s.armstrong went 6.6 in July 2024 with sharper complaints about cheese placement, sweet sauce, and a bland crust. That range is what you get when a decades-old name moves: loyalists, skeptics, and everyone in between.
Trivia, runs, cards, and live music
Campfire’s public events calendar leans on repeat weekly anchors. Tuesday trivia runs through Crowdpurr, is free to enter, and awards a twenty-five-dollar gift card to the winning team; listings on the calendar show a typical block such as 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday run club meets at 6:15 p.m. for a three- to four-mile route sponsored by Columbus Running Company, with walkers explicitly welcome. Thursday pairs euchre night with a ten-dollar buy-in and a separate Queen of Hearts drawing with five-dollar cash-only tickets and posted prize splits. Fridays and Saturdays carry live music slots; the calendar names acts such as Sparky Brewer on May 1, 2026 and Summer Strays on May 2, 2026, and points guests to social channels for future lineups.
That programming stack matches a taproom that wants steady weekday traffic instead of only a Saturday crush. It also sits comfortably beside Bernstein’s reporting on patio fire pits, indoor communal tables with small controlled flames, and families roasting s’mores while adults pair pints. One detail in that 2025 column is already stale: it said the room goes adults-only after 7 p.m., while Campfire’s own homepage and contact materials now say 8 p.m., so follow the current posted rule when you plan a family visit.
Kids, dogs, and patio rules
Campfire welcomes supervised kids, bans running in the taproom and on the patio picnic area, and asks that after 9 p.m. children stay with parents while staff address behavior that drifts. Leashed dogs are welcome on the patio, water bowls are available on request, and the published FAQ says staff may ask to greet a friendly pet.
Bottom line
Campfire is a Frost Road taproom with a January 2025 opening date on the public record, a salvage-yard past on the same record, and a beer program wide enough to keep regulars rotating styles. Antonio’s on site updates the food story past the early truck mentions in press, while the events calendar shows how the room fills the week between trivia, runs, cards, and weekend music. Confirm hours, the 8 p.m. age cutoff, and the beer list date the day you visit, then order pizza when you are ready instead of splitting the group across town.
Photography published on Campfire Brewing’s Our Story page.
FAQ
What’s the address for Campfire Brewing?
6300 Frost Road, Westerville, Ohio 43082, matching what Campfire publishes for the taproom and what the Ohio Craft Brewers Association lists for the brewery.
What are Campfire Brewing’s taproom hours, and when does the room become 21+ only?
They post Monday through Thursday 4 p.m. to 10 p.m., Friday 2 p.m. to 11 p.m., Saturday noon to 11 p.m., and Sunday noon to 9 p.m., and they switch the taproom to 21 and over after 8 p.m. Posted hours can still change, so visitors should confirm the schedule the day of a visit.
Does Campfire Brewing allow children and dogs on the patio?
They describe the taproom as family friendly with supervision, ban running in the taproom or on the patio picnic area, and ask that after 9 p.m. children stay with parents while staff address behavior that drifts. Leashed dogs are allowed on the patio, water bowls are available on request, and their FAQ says staff may ask to greet a friendly pet.
What food does Campfire Brewing serve, and is Antonio’s Pizzeria available there?
They sell Campfire snacks (mini and large s’mores kits, s’mores dip, pretzels, and chips) and run Antonio’s Pizzeria at the brewery with its own menu. They ask guests not to bring outside food except sweets for special celebrations. Their Antonio’s page is marked open with a “NOW OPEN” headline and retells the Giuliani family story from the original Uptown shop to Frost Road.
Where can guests park when Campfire Brewing’s main lot is full?
They provide onsite parking and send overflow across the street to Shamrock Towing when the main lot fills.
Sources
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