Our Story

Urban Artifact is a Cincinnati, Ohio brewery dedicated to producing world-class beverages that are made exclusively with real fruit. In 2015 we started our humble beginning with thrifted furniture for the taproom, a bar that was built from a felled tree, and an extremely small team of dreamers. Now we’re the largest dedicated fruit brewery in the world! Urban Artifact has defined and coined new brewing styles, techniques, and expertise that have helped shape the way people think of fruit. Our award-winning Fruit Tarts have redefined the beer industry and built a cult following we never saw coming.

We began brewing experimental beers in 2015, some occasionally being reiterated to this day and others, well, staying buried in our memories. In 2016 we labeled the original "Midwest Fruit Tart" with the first batch of Gadget, our flagship Mixed Berry MWFT. That same year we created the first ever original Pickle beer and are still shocked how far it’s gone. In 2025 we celebrated our 10th anniversary and with it our 1,000th beer - that means we’ve averaged a new beer every 3.6 days! We currently use over 1,000,000 lbs of real fruit each year and have used over 150 different kinds of fruit.

Urban Artifact has three original co-founders that continue to manage the brewery along with a phenomenal team of creative and hard-working folks. We operate in the historic St. Patrick's Church in Cincinnati's Northside neighborhood; offering a taproom, full bar, music recording soundstage, radio station, and event space.