Nathan Hoeft owns it and brews it — First Street is a genuine owner-brewer operation in downtown Hastings, the kind of place where the person pouring your pint probably made it. The “#TasteOfHastings” tagline isn’t marketing; the brewery leans on regional ingredients and local identity hard.
The curveball is the kombucha: brewed in-house alongside the beer, giving the non-beer drinkers in your group something made with the same care. It’s a small detail that says a lot about how Hoeft thinks about hospitality.
Hastings doesn’t have a deep brewery bench, which makes First Street the town’s beer headquarters by default — and it earns the title.