Chandeleur Island Brewing Company

Mississippi didn't legalize homebrewing until 2013 — one of the last states in the country to end the ban. Every brewery operating on the coast is working against a century of legal hostility to the craft. Chandeleur Island Brewing Company, named for the most remote barrier island chain in the Gulf, opened in downtown Gulfport in 2011 as part of the coast's small but determined brewing scene alongside Lazy Magnolia and Fly Llama. The taproom hosts live music and food trucks; the beers are available across the coast. This is a region that rebuilt after Camille in 1969 and Katrina in 2005, that legalized gaming in the early '90s to survive, and that has always drawn its character from the Gulf. A brewery naming itself for barrier islands a hundred miles offshore fits. Check locally for taproom hours.