USA, OK: Oklahoma’s Vanessa House Beer Company confirms permanent closure

The latest Oklahoma brewery to close shuttered quietly following months of scaling back production and limiting hours of operation at its Oklahoma City taproom, AOL.com reported on September 30.

Vanessa House Beer Company, 118 NW 8 St., posted to the bio sections of its social media accounts that it was permanently closed over the weekend, forgoing a large announcement.

Founded in 2016 by five friends who met at a house on Vanessa Drive in Norman, the brewery was representative of their love of beer and each other.

Like many craft breweries in OKC, Vanessa House was hit hard by the pandemic. It rebounded fairly well, however, and despite facing additional hardships like equipment failures and other obstacles, like a road closure by the city in front of the tap room that led to a lawsuit in 2022, Vanessa House ownership continued pushing forward, releasing new brews as late as May of this year.

But the tides began to shift late last year, when, on Dec. 5, 2023, the brewery posted to its Facebook and Instagram asking for the support of the community.

"We are not ready to leave yet, and in these trying times we need your help to keep our doors open," the post read in part.

The brewery managed to keep doors open for another nine months following the post, though production was scaled back, with even some of the brand's flagship beers missing from the taps in the taproom at times.

Now, tag lines of "PERMANENTLY CLOSED. It’s been real," and "Permanently closed. For those that are left may the odds forever be in your favor," adorn the social media of the brewery, solidifying the finality of its closure.

01 October, 2024