Welcome to Webb’s!

When we opened Webb's City Cellar in 2019, it was on the heels of our fifth anniversary as downtown St. Petersburg's first production brewery. Our city's growing and thriving beer scene has paralleled an engaging and supportive art community, both fueled by passion and confidence. Inspired by our community, we built Webb's City Cellar to challenge both ourselves and the market by focusing on three very important elements, all supported by executing on the highest level of hospitality found in beer worldwide.

Firstly, curiosity: We love learning. It's one of the reasons we built Webb’s City Cellar in the first place. This isn’t only a space to explore the production of our products, but also a space for our customers to explore new and otherwise unheard-of styles, with unique processes, and exceptional flavors. And, because education never ends, our staff go through extensive, industry-leading training on beer, cider, wine, and service.

Secondly, equity: We strive to be a place for all. Webb's City Cellar is centered around challenging what your typical brewery tasting room would look, feel, and taste like. We focus on fermentation-forward products with nuanced and graceful characters that appeal to all - beer lovers as well as those a bit less enthused by the general flavors and/or marketing of beer. And because beer is for everyone, Khris Johnson personally sits as a board member of several organizations who work to diversify the industry from the top to the bottom, like Beer Kulture, The Michael James Jackson Foundation for Brewing and Distilling, and the National Black Brewers Association of America.

And lastly, pride: We're fiercely proud of what we make, how we serve it, and of the community that we serve. Our commitment to our customers means that we have a responsibility to produce the highest quality beers and ciders. That's why our space, our service, and our products, are second to none.

About the space…

Webb’s City Cellar is our second tasting room and barrel aging facility adjacent to our original location. While it specializes in mixed culture, sour and wild ales, it shares the beer garden in the middle of the two facilities. The name is an homage to Webb’s City Drug Store, the World’s Most Unusual Drug Store which first opened in Downtown St. Petersburg in the mid 1920’s. It took up seven city blocks, and was complete with 77 departments ranging from a meat market, to a beauty salon; a hardware store to a Mermaid Show.

Webb’s City Cellar allows us to experiment with mixed culture fermentation, oak aging, and wood fermentation. Webb’s also allows us to develop high quality blends and alternative whole fruit and spontaneous ferments, while also broadening our Mead and Cider branch of the business. 

The expansion and development of this project includes: an intimate bar setting, a lounge space, an outdoor patio, balcony seating, and an upfront view of our barrel facility. Alongside our own products, we carry a rotating bottle menu of packaged products from parallel breweries with similar programs.

Webb’s City Cellar opened to the public early 2019.

In addition to our production facility, we built a climate controlled cellar for the production of Wild Ales and Mixed Culture Sour beers. After we brew on our Brewhouse, we pump the wort under the beer garden to the cellar, into more custom build Foeders. These all have a house mixed culture of wild yeast and bacteria that ferment the wort over the course of several weeks before they are transferred into barrels (mostly wine barrels but we often use spirit, as well), where they age for many months before we prepare to harvest. Once their aging process is complete, we blend the beer together and will age on various fruits, hops, or any other additions that we would like to experiment with. Webb’s City Cellar has one custom build 90 HL Foeder, as well as three 40 HL Foeders, a few stainless tanks for fruiting, and a 60 BBL bright tank, all dedicated to Mixed Culture production. We can house up to 700 wine barrels in our cellar, which is open to the public.

Housed inside of Webb’s City Cellar is also our Mead + Cider production equipment.

We have two stainless 2,000L Red Wine fermenters, two stainless 2,000L White Wine fermenters, two stainless 15 BBL conical fermenters, one 10 BBL Foeder, and a 25 BBL bright tank.