Having worked at the brewery since 2012—he left in 2018 to open his own brewpub in Lake Highlands—and after years of preparation, Bradley was set to launch Vector Brewing alongside his wife, Veronica, in April 2020.
Opening a new brewpub during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic had its difficulties, he said. Nevertheless, the Bradleys managed to quickly adapt by canning many of their beer offerings and making them available to-go, a practice the brewpub continues to this day.
Nestled on the southeast corner of Walnut Hill Lane and Audelia Road, Vector Brewing offers a range of food, including appetizers, such as the herbed sourdough cheese-filled So-Fried Onions; pastas, such as the Papa Carlo with spicy pork sausage and fettuccine noodles; and its trademark Stone Deck pizzas.
Made with ingredients procured from local farms, popular pizzas include the Angry Bee—made from housemade Alfredo sauce, shaved habanero and a hot glitter honey drizzle— as well as the Fine Swine, a pizza covered with housemade crumbled pork sausage, smoked bacon and caramelized onions.
Bradley said Vector Brewing’s main draw, however, is its beers.
“We have a variety of beers that you probably won’t see in a lot of other breweries,” Bradley said. “As breweries, we always have a love for making beer, and you fall into a trap sometimes of making what you feel people all want to drink the same. We believe that there is a market for a lot of different tastes and different kinds of [beer].”
Vector Brewing has offered around 200 different beer varieties since its launch, though it typically offers 15 selections at any given time, and due to the pandemic, the brewpub is equipped to offer any of its beers to-go.
Vector Brewing, 9850 Walnut Hill Lane, Ste. 405, Dallas
469-676-0797. www.vectorbrewing.com
Hours: Mon.-Thu. 4-10 p.m., Fri. 11 a.m.-10 p.m., Sat. 11 a.m.-10 p.m., Sun. 11 a.m.-8 p.m.
