The Phoenix sits in plain sight on North Diamond: red-brown brick from the old Schroer mortuary, the family name still visible high in the masonry, and that big arched window filled with the orange phoenix graphic you will recognize from cans and social posts. A newer black metal annex and fenced patios sit right on the sidewalk, so the whole corner reads as a working bar block rather than a cordoned-off landmark. For logistics, the taproom lists 131 North Diamond Street, Mansfield, Ohio 44902 and (419) 522-2552 on the contact page, which matches the Ohio Craft Brewers Association directory, and it is worth remembering that the whiskey-focused Spirit Room upstairs keeps different hours than the beer hall below.
Exterior photograph published on The Phoenix Brewing Company’s Squarespace homepage.
Opening downtown in 2014
The origin story is the same everywhere you look it up, from the brewery’s Our Story page to Ohio.org to the OCBA listing: local people who cared about beer wanted a craft revival downtown, the Phoenix opened in April 2014, and the taproom went into the restored Schroer funeral home near the old pre-Prohibition brewery strip Richland Source still calls the Carrousel district. Richland Source’s 2017 World Beer Awards piece names Scott Cardwell and Steve Zigmund as co-owners with Duncan Macfarlane as head brewer and co-owner, which is the same leadership trio the OCBA lists today with Macfarlane credited as brewmaster.
Untappd’s venue blurb repeats the April 2014 opening and describes the mortuary shell in round-number “years old” terms, while the Our Story page sticks to “restored former Schroer Funeral and Mortuary Home.” The small mismatch only matters if you are writing plaque copy; for visitors, the point is that the team chose a historic funeral home, then built a beer program where the building’s past shows up in series names and labels instead of being wallpapered over. Live music was part of the pitch from the beginning, and it still anchors the weekend calendar on the homepage.
The Schroer building and the renovation story
The history page on phoenixbrewing.com goes deeper than most marketing sites, and it is the best primary source on the architecture. Charles Schroer ran a furniture business in Mansfield before he opened the mortuary in 1914, when cabinet shops and casket building often lived under one roof. The page says the funeral home operated until 1932 and the death of Charles Schroer Jr., calls the building Mansfield’s first fireproof structure, and mentions a hand-operated elevator serving three floors. The brewery’s own tour language now puts brewhouse equipment and cold storage in the old embalming and prep level downstairs, puts the public taproom in the former chapel on the first floor, and says the casket elevator shaft became storage and HVAC after salvage, with some of that wood recycled into flight paddles.
When they renovated, they did not strip the place down to a blank box. The same history page says they refinished the original windows, sourced tables from a local bowling alley and from a couple who reached out when they heard a brewery was coming, moved a back bar that had already bounced through downtown businesses and an artist’s studio, peeled plaster by hand to expose brick, and reused lights salvaged from an Allstate building renovation elsewhere in Mansfield. The patio is paved with reclaimed Cleveland street brick, more than five thousand pavers by their count. That is a lot of specific inventory for a single paragraph, but it matters because it explains why the room feels assembled rather than ordered out of a hospitality catalog.
What they pour and what the competition record actually says
Marketing still promises sixteen taps of Phoenix beer plus Ohio guests, wine, cider, spirits, cocktails, and non-alcoholic options on the homepage welcome copy, and Our Story repeats the sixteen-handle setup with six flagship house beers in rotation next to seasonals and high-gravity releases. The craft portfolio page is the working menu for style notes and ABV, though a February 2026 banner on that page warns readers that production edits are still landing, so anyone planning a can run should read the availability line on each beer instead of assuming last year’s schedule.
Year-round brands on that portfolio still read like a cross-section of Midwest taproom staples, with names that nod to the building and the town: Ferryman oatmeal milk stout, Redemption IPA, Krampus Kandy white stout, Danger City brown ale, John Doe American wheat, Pale Ale 419, Turbidity NE IPA, and red band American lager, each with printed ABV and IBU. The portfolio also lists competition medals beside individual beers where it chooses to highlight them: Ferryman as 2020 Ohio Craft Brewers Cup silver, Krampus Kandy as 2024 U.S. Open Beer Championship gold, Treffenwolf German IPA as 2023 Ohio Craft Brewers Cup gold, Mary Jane Chai Baltic Porter as 2018 Ohio Craft Brewers Cup bronze, Ned Flander Style Ale as 2024 U.S. Open bronze, and Bourbon Barrel Aged Black Aggie as 2019 World Beer Awards USA’s Best in the wood-aged track. That gives readers something concrete behind the homepage’s “award-winning” language instead of leaving it vague.
For journalism outside the brewery’s own PDFs and Squarespace blocks, Richland Source in August 2017 walked through Toe Tag Belgian Tripel shipping to the World Beer Awards in May and coming back with U.S. gold in its style after a blind panel worked through more than nineteen hundred beers from thirty-six countries. The piece quotes Macfarlane on tripels as a favorite style and places Toe Tag in the high-gravity Mortuary Series with a dated tap and bottle plan through late 2017 into 2018, which is still the cleanest news clip tying one Phoenix beer to one trophy table.
Ohio.org adds the distribution picture for anyone who has seen Phoenix cans farther from Mansfield: a twenty-barrel brewhouse and canning line in a twenty-five-thousand-square-foot warehouse next door, feeding bars and retailers across northern and central Ohio on top of the five-barrel pilot language the taproom pages use. The April 2023 anniversary post on the brewery blog fills in the operational arc in plain numbers, from a 2014 five-barrel start through a second twenty-barrel system, roughly one hundred fifty barrels of fermentation capacity, the warehouse footprint, two delivery vans, and the shift from draft-only to bombers and then sixteen-ounce cans with an owned canning line. Staff headcount in that same post moves from five people to twenty-two, with roles that now include sales, distribution, cellaring, marketing, safety, accounting, IT, and bourbon stewards alongside bartenders and brewers, which tells you how much weight sits behind a sixteen-tap room that still reads small from the street.
Product photography published in the image gallery on The Phoenix Brewing Company’s Squarespace homepage.
Weekends downstairs, whiskey upstairs, food when you plan for it
The homepage still advertises live music every weekend, plus community events such as Oktoberfest, pop-up markets, tastings, and Tuesday nights for trivia, euchre, and bingo. Taproom hours on that same page are Monday closed, Tuesday through Thursday 3 p.m. to 9 p.m., Friday 3 p.m. to 11 p.m., Saturday noon to 11 p.m., and Sunday noon to 7 p.m. The Spirit Room block underneath is different: closed Sunday through Wednesday, Thursday 4 p.m. to 9 p.m., Friday and Saturday 4 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., so anyone who wants cocktails after a beer should check the upstairs clock instead of assuming the taproom close applies.
The April 2023 anniversary post describes the upstairs renovation into the Spirit Room at the Phoenix, links spiritroomphx.com, and mentions private rentals as part of how that space earns its keep. TourismOhio’s listing still describes the Spirit Room as bourbon, whiskey, Scotch, and cocktails above the beer service, which matches how the brewery wants travelers to file the concept. The same anniversary post also mentions a disco-themed night in the production brewery during that anniversary week, which is a useful reminder that the “quiet whiskey lounge” image is not the only mode the business runs in during big events.
Food is spelled out honestly if you read the fine print instead of the hero sentence. Our Story still lists seasonal food trucks, ordering from a local pizzeria, or bringing carryout, and the homepage welcome copy repeats seasonal trucks and carry-in from local restaurants. There is no standing promise of a full kitchen every night, so trucks, neighbor restaurants, and whatever you carry in remain the realistic plan.
To-go formats and the no-tipping model
Packaging language shifts slightly by page, but the overlap is clear. The homepage mentions four-packs, crowlers, and swag to go. Untappd’s venue blurb adds sixteen-ounce cans and growlers alongside crowlers. Our Story still says growlers in the carryout sentence, and Ohio.org lists growlers with four-packs and crowlers, so it is fair to tell readers to expect cans, crowlers, and growlers as parallel options rather than picking one format as the “real” story.
The April 2023 anniversary post also records a May 2021 switch to a non-tipping house, higher hourly wages, broader cross-training, and a rule that stray cash on the bar goes to a rotating charity each month. Policies can change, but that post explains why locals sometimes talk about wages and service model when they describe the taproom culture.
What showed up on Untappd in late April 2026
Untappd is messy, but dated check-ins still give you unfiltered wording. Greg T., posting as Barnurse, drank Deviant Offspring from a can at Boss Chick N Beer and called it delicious, roasty, with a bit of dark chocolate. Pat Robeck, as TravLpat, checked in the same beer the same week with Very coffee!, which lines up with how the portfolio sells Deviant Offspring when it returns as a limited coffee porter. Randy McClellan, as Randymcclellsn, tried Hekate at the Mansfield taproom and noted More bitter than I would like, which is the ordinary push and pull when a board mixes experimental releases with softer flagship pours.
None of that replaces a reporter sitting at the bar for a week, but it is closer to how people actually describe glasses than anything pulled from a press kit.
Taproom-style photography published in the image gallery on The Phoenix Brewing Company’s Squarespace homepage; the accompanying site caption references Deviant Offspring glassware.
A Mansfield corner, not a generic taproom kit
After rereading the Our Story page, Richland Source’s Toe Tag piece, the OCBA listing, and the 2023 anniversary essay, the story still hangs on one address with a lot of paperwork behind it. The building history is unusually well sourced on the brewery’s own site, the portfolio page puts competition claims next to specific beer names instead of hiding behind adjectives, and the Spirit Room is a second concept with its own hours and URL rather than an upstairs afterthought. For planning a visit, the homepage hours block beats most third-party apps on Sunday closes, and the portfolio is still the fastest way to match medals to beers before you order a flight. If you are already in Richland County, North Diamond is an easy stop: old brick on the street, sixteen taps and two patios on the ground floor, and the Spirit Room running its own Thursday-through-Saturday night upstairs.
FAQ
Where is The Phoenix Brewing Company located, and how do I reach someone by phone?
131 North Diamond Street, Mansfield, Ohio 44902, with the main line at (419) 522-2552, matching the Ohio Craft Brewers Association directory and the brewery’s published contact block.
What are the taproom hours compared to the Spirit Room upstairs?
The taproom is closed Monday, Tuesday through Thursday 3 p.m. to 9 p.m., Friday 3 p.m. to 11 p.m., Saturday noon to 11 p.m., and Sunday noon to 7 p.m. The Spirit Room is closed Sunday through Wednesday, Thursday 4 p.m. to 9 p.m., and Friday and Saturday 4 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., per the hours block embedded on the brewery homepage.
How does food work if there is no full kitchen on site?
The Our Story page still describes seasonal food trucks, ordering from a local pizzeria, and bringing carryout, and the homepage welcome copy repeats seasonal trucks with carry-in from local restaurants, so food is a mix of trucks, neighbor restaurants, and whatever you carry in, not a fixed nightly kitchen menu.
Which beers show up most often in the flagship conversation, and where are medals documented?
The craft portfolio page still centers Ferryman Oatmeal Milk Stout, Redemption IPA, Krampus Kandy White Stout, Danger City Brown Ale, John Doe American Wheat, Pale Ale 419, Turbidity NE IPA, and red band American lager as year-round brands, and it prints Ohio Craft Brewers Cup and U.S. Open Beer Championship medals for several releases plus World Beer Awards recognition for Bourbon Barrel Aged Black Aggie, while Richland Source documents the 2017 World Beer Awards gold for Toe Tag Belgian Tripel.
What production footprint does the brewery describe beyond the five-barrel taproom system?
The Our Story page states that beers are brewed on a five-barrel brewhouse and on a twenty-barrel production system with sustainable practices, and the April 2023 anniversary blog post on the brewery site describes adding a second twenty-barrel brewhouse, about one hundred fifty barrels of fermentation capacity, a twenty-five-thousand-square-foot warehouse, and an in-house canning line as distribution grew.
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The Phoenix Brewing Company. Ohio Craft Brewers Association member listing (address, phone, owners, brewmaster, amenities, hours grid). https://ohiocraftbeer.org/breweries/the-phoenix-brewing-company/ (Accessed May 2, 2026).
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Macfarlane, Carmone. “One Fantastic (9 Year) Voyage.” The Phoenix Brewing Co. April 25, 2023. https://www.phoenixbrewing.com/blog/2023/4/25/one-fantastic-9-year-voyage (Accessed May 2, 2026).
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Pat Robeck (Untappd display name TravLpat). Untappd check-in for Deviant Offspring by The Phoenix Brewing Company, May 1, 2026. https://untappd.com/user/TravLpat/checkin/1566731503 (Accessed May 2, 2026).
Randy McClellan (Untappd display name Randymcclellsn). Untappd check-in for Hekate by The Phoenix Brewing Company at The Phoenix Brewing Co., April 30, 2026. https://untappd.com/user/Randymcclellsn/checkin/1566515691 (Accessed May 2, 2026).