Bold City Brewery

Bold City Brewery was opened by Brian and Susan Miller after Brian moved from home brewing, which he started in 2002, and involvement with CASK, Jacksonville’s home brewers club, into running a commercial craft brewery. The company has been a member of the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce since 2010. The Rosselle Street address, in the Brooklyn area just west of downtown, is Bold City’s production facility and original taproom, and it’s worth knowing that the company closed its separate Downtown tavern on East Bay Street in June 2026. The Rosselle Street location was unaffected and, per the company, is absorbing the brewing equipment and operations that were running out of the Downtown spot. In other words, Rosselle Street isn’t a satellite location, it’s the core of the business.

Bold City is a certified independent craft brewery, carrying the Brewers Association’s independent seal, and the taproom runs a rotating tap list built around a set of core beers alongside seasonal and one-off releases. The kitchen isn’t an afterthought here: it serves smash burgers, hot dogs, tacos, sliders, and brunch items, and food is built into most of the week’s programming rather than offered as a side note. Tuesday is taco night, Wednesday pairs a slider basket and BOGO wine with trivia starting at 7 p.m., Thursday is bingo at 6:30 p.m. with burger specials, Friday brings live music, Saturday runs a Duke’s Dawgs basket with BOGO beer, and Sunday brunch comes with $3 mimosas and core beers. That’s a heavier events calendar than most breweries in town run, and it’s a big part of why Bold City functions as a neighborhood hangout rather than just a place to pick up a six-pack.

Hours are worth checking before heading over, since it isn’t a typical seven day operation: closed Monday, open Tuesday through Thursday from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday from noon to 10 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 6 p.m. That means no weekday lunch service, but weekend hours start early enough for an afternoon beer and a burger before the evening crowd shows up. The taproom itself sits in a light industrial pocket of the Brooklyn neighborhood, next to the brewing operation rather than in a retail strip, so it reads more like visiting a working brewery than a polished bar.

For a first visit, go on a night tied to one of the weekly events, trivia or bingo nights especially, to get a feel for why locals keep coming back, and expect a casual brewery crowd rather than a dressed up bar scene. Since the Downtown location just closed, Rosselle Street is now the only place in Jacksonville to get Bold City’s beer straight from the source, which makes it a more essential stop for anyone tracking the city’s brewing scene than it was a year ago.