Where does a northeast Indiana craft beer actually get made, and where can someone sit down with a pint of it next to a plate of food? Mad Anthony Brewing Company answers both at once. It runs three brewpubs, the original on Broadway in Fort Wayne plus spots in Auburn on North Main and in Warsaw on East Center Street, and it pours house ales and lagers that change with whatever the brewers feel like making. The lineup is not fixed, which means a regular has a reason to keep checking back instead of ordering the same thing twice.
Three brewpub locations across northeast Indiana
The food at Mad Anthony Brewing Company is a full menu, not an afterthought tacked onto a tasting room. Each location does dine-in service, and there is a weekday lunch special running from 11am to 2pm Monday through Friday, dine-in only, which slots the brewpubs into the ordinary rhythm of a workday lunch rather than treating beer as a strictly evening proposition. Live music turns up weekly, so an evening visit can carry more than just the taps. Between the rotating beer, the kitchen, and a band on the schedule, a single building is doing the work of three different reasons to walk in.
Full food menu with weekday lunch specials
Beyond the bar stools, Mad Anthony Brewing Company puts its beer into the wider Indiana market. There is a "Find Madbrew" store locator that points drinkers to the shops, bars, and grocery stores carrying the packaged MadBrew labels, and the site treats distribution as a working arm of the operation in its own right. That distribution reach is what separates a local taproom from a brewery serving an entire state, and it gives someone outside Fort Wayne a way to drink the beer without driving to one of the three addresses. The Fort Wayne brewpub at 2002 Broadway remains the original and the primary brewing site, so the ales and lagers that fan out across Indiana trace back to that one Broadway address.
Live music performances on weekly schedule
The convenience layer is built out further than a lot of regional brewpubs bother with. Online ordering runs through the site itself, DoorDash, and Waiter on the Way for the Fort Wayne location, so a Mad Anthony order can land at a kitchen table instead of a booth. Catering lives on its own dedicated website, which usually signals that the catering side handles enough volume to warrant being treated as a separate operation. There are e-gift cards, a merchandise shop selling shirts and hats, and a careers section for anyone looking to work behind the bar or in the back.
Distribution network and online ordering options
Loyalty gets real attention too. A rewards program covers repeat customers, and the 2026 Mug Club membership is the kind of thing aimed squarely at regulars who want a standing perk for showing up. Mad Anthony Brewing Company also handles event scheduling and a band booking inquiry, the latter being a nice touch that turns the venues into something musicians can approach directly. Two community programs sit alongside all of it: "Pints for Half Pints" and "Dine 2 Donate," both fundraising angles that tie the brewpubs into local causes. None of this is unusual on its own, but having all of it gathered under one roof is more than a lot of breweries bother to assemble, and it sketches a fair picture of how Mad Anthony Brewing Company sees its place in the towns it serves.
Checking beer availability through store locator
On reputation, the outside numbers for Mad Anthony Brewing Company are solid and consistent. Tripadvisor carries 128 reviews at 4.0 out of 5, with the Fort Wayne brewpub ranked 48th of 514 restaurants in the city, which is a respectable spot in a crowded field. Yelp has 203 reviews and 159 photos, enough of a record that a prospective visitor can see the food and the room before going.
Delivery via DoorDash or Waiter on the Way
Beer-specific sites tell their own story: BeerAdvocate scores the Fort Wayne brewery at 3.67 out of 5 across 40 ratings and the Auburn location at 3.58 across 9, and there is an Untappd profile with individual beer ratings for anyone who wants to judge by the glass rather than the establishment. The catering side picks up its own praise on WeddingWire, where 5 reviews average 4.5 out of 5. Across general dining sites, dedicated beer raters, and the wedding market, the picture holds steady in the low-to-mid four-star range. That kind of agreement across very different audiences is worth more than a single glowing score on one platform.
Rewards program and Mug Club membership
Contact at Mad Anthony Brewing Company is straightforward. The footer carries a Contact link, the Fort Wayne address sits on the homepage next to the Auburn and Warsaw locations, and a phone number, (260) 426-2537, shows up in the third-party listings. Anyone trying to confirm a detail, ask about a private event, or check whether a band slot is open has a clear route in. With three separate addresses published up front, there is no ambiguity about which town a given visit is headed to. One small wrinkle is hours: the homepage does not put them front and center, and the Monday-through-Thursday 11am-to-10pm schedule shows up on Yelp instead, so a late arrival is worth a quick call to confirm before driving over.
How do ratings compare across different platforms?
If there is a soft spot, it is that the beer ratings on the enthusiast sites are good without being exceptional, sitting just under the 3.7 mark where many well-regarded craft breweries land. The rating volume on BeerAdvocate is also fairly low, especially for Auburn with its nine entries, so the beer-nerd sample has far less depth than the broad dining numbers. That is a fair caveat for a hardcore beer hunter chasing top-shelf scores, though it says little about whether Mad Anthony Brewing Company is an enjoyable spot to spend an evening, which the Tripadvisor and Yelp counts answer well enough.
Mad Anthony Brewing Company suits a few clear kinds of visitor. A Fort Wayne local who wants a reliable lunch with a house pint, a beer drinker working through northeast Indiana taprooms, and a couple weighing breweries for a wedding caterer all have something concrete to act on here. The most useful next step depends on who is asking: a diner can place a Fort Wayne order through the site or DoorDash tonight, a regular can sign up for the 2026 Mug Club, and anyone planning an event should call (260) 426-2537 or pull up the separate catering site to ask about availability. Three towns, a distribution network, a working kitchen, and a catering arm is a lot to keep coordinated, and Mad Anthony Brewing Company does it without burying the practical details.
