The other craft rooms: Crooked Ewe, Studebaker Brewing, and the Ivy Alley brewery

2015 — present

Crooked Ewe Brewery & Ale House: The east side got the era's second brewery. The Crooked Ewe, at 1047 Lincolnway East on the riverfront, opened its taproom officially on 6 June 2015 — the date in the brewery's own directory description — brewing on site in a ten-barrel brewery, and it put a South Bend beer on a national medal stand within a year: the house Scotch Ale took bronze at the 2016 World Beer Cup, as the brewery's own menu records. It stands in November 2026 operating at the Lincolnway East address, the city's riverfront brewery.

Studebaker Brewing Co.: In 2018 a brewery opened inside Tippecanoe Place, Clement Studebaker's mansion at 620 West Washington Street — brewing returned, under the wagon-and-automobile name, to the house of the company's founder, a conjunction the Studebaker leg's record frames and this entry simply dates. The mansion brewery operated for eight seasons; in November 2024 the company opened a second, larger brewpub in New Carlisle — that town's own ground, thirteen miles west, printed here at boundary size as the company's continuation — and when the Tippecanoe Place restaurant closed for good in January 2026, as the Architecture and Today sections of this history record, the mansion brewery closed with the house, and directory listings now mark it permanently closed. Studebaker Brewing brews on in New Carlisle; in South Bend its record is 2018 to January 2026, the only documented closing of the craft era in this city.

Ivy Alley Social House — the newest maker: The era's most recent entrant brews inside a garage. Ivy Alley Social House opened just before Christmas 2025, after a nine-month build-out, in the rehabilitated Spenner Garage at 321 West Wayne Street — the 1926 garage the Architecture section prints — combining a brewery, a restaurant and duckpin bowling under one roof. The house was developed by Nathan Klein with his parents, David and Karen Klein, in the Embertons' Historic Hearthstone rehabilitation of the building, whose cost passed $2.9 million; Indiana Landmarks' magazine carried the opening in its May/June 2026 issue. It stands operating in 2026: the city's newest brewery, and the third in nine years to make beer inside a building another South Bend industry built.

The boundary of the rooms: The making is this section's; the rooms are the Bars & Nightclubs section's, and the two meet at the taproom door. Three breweries a South Bend drinker uses are not this city's and are printed once, here, so the map is honest: Evil Czech Brewery, Sun King and the Hop Station stand in Mishawaka, and Bare Hands Brewery stands in Granger — their records belong to those places' histories when they are built.

Sources:

1. Crooked Ewe Brewery & Ale House, the brewery's own publications (crookedewebrewery.com and its Indiana brewers' guild directory description, read November 2026) — the 1047 Lincolnway East address; the taproom's official opening 6 June 2015; the on-site ten-barrel brewery; the Scotch Ale's 2016 World Beer Cup bronze, from the house menu.
2. Studebaker Brewing Co. — the 2018 opening inside Tippecanoe Place as carried in the mansion's published history (bestattractions.org account of the house); Indiana on Tap (indianaontap.com, March 2025) — Josh Goins and the New Carlisle brewpub's opening in November 2024; Architecture and Today sections of this history — the Tippecanoe Place restaurant's January 2026 closing; current directory listings marking the mansion brewery permanently closed.
3. Indiana Landmarks, Indiana Preservation, May/June 2026 — the Ivy Alley Social House opening just before Christmas 2025, the Spenner Garage at 321 West Wayne Street, the Klein family's development, the nine-month build-out, the $2.9 million rehabilitation; Architecture section of this history — the garage, opened 14 February 1926.