White Elm’s brewer, Kolby Wood, doesn’t believe in a house style — and that’s the house style. One tap pours Pulpagogo, a smoothie sour loaded with fruit; another pours a barrel-aged stout built for winter. The distance between those two poles is the fun of the place.
The Van Dorn Street taproom is unpretentious and comfortable, the kind of room where regulars camp out for the evening. It’s south Lincoln’s neighborhood brewery in the truest sense — not a destination taproom, a local.
In a beer scene that loves its flagships, White Elm’s refusal to pick a lane is refreshing. Come thirsty and indecisive.