After nearly twelve years of serving as a beloved neighborhood anchor in Dublin, California, Three Sheets Craft Beer Bar is permanently closing its doors. Co-founders Stefanie Jackel and Wendy Rather have decided not to renew the taproom’s lease on Village Parkway, making this weekend their final hurrah. The venue’s farewell celebration, aptly named the “One Last Cheers Weekend,” kicked off recently and runs through closing time, offering loyal patrons a final opportunity to gather, reminisce, and empty the remaining inventory.
A Community Hub Built Around Craft Beer:
Established in 2014 by passionate craft beer enthusiasts who traveled extensively across the country to sample regional brews, Three Sheets quickly evolved into much more than a standard drinking establishment. Located at 7046 Village Parkway, the bar became a cultural fixture in the East Bay. Over its decade-plus run, management noted that the space witnessed strangers transforming into regulars, regulars becoming lifelong friends, and friends turning into family.
The taproom built its dedicated following around a unique formula: rotating selection of roughly 30 craft beer and cider draft handles, a massive 200-inch projection screen for major sporting events, and indoor cornhole courts. Crucially, its flexible “bring-your-own-food” model allowed patrons to support and source meals from neighboring restaurants and local food trucks, cementing its place as a collaborative heart of the local culinary scene.
Milestones, Memories, and Overcoming Adversity:
Throughout its tenure, Three Sheets played host to an array of major milestones for its community. From championship victory parades and St. Patrick’s Day celebrations to World Cup watch parties, birthday bashes, and anniversaries, the bar was deeply woven into local lives. Remarkably, it even served as the backdrop for first dates, engagement parties, and wedding receptions. For its grand finale, the establishment rolled draft beer prices all the way back to its original 2014 opening rates.
The business also weathered significant historical challenges. County records indicate that the taproom was forced into a strict two-month shutdown starting in March 2020 due to pandemic-era mandates, later receiving small business grant funding in 2022 to aid its recovery. Situated roughly a mile from the West Dublin/Pleasanton BART station accessible via a pedestrian footbridge over Interstate 580—it served as a convenient transit-friendly destination. Its secondary expansion to Las Vegas in 2019 eventually consolidated back to this single Dublin flagship before today’s final closure.
Part of a Wider Bay Area Craft Beer Shift:
The closure of Three Sheets highlights a broader economic reality facing the regional hospitality sector. The venue’s exit adds to a mounting wave of Bay Area craft beverage closures, with more than two dozen breweries and taprooms across Northern California scaling back or liquidating since 2020 amid soaring operating expenses and shifting consumer habits. National data from the Brewers Association underscores similar pressures, noting a contraction in U.S. craft beer production volume and a slight decline in operating craft breweries nationwide.
Even with the departure of this Village Parkway landmark, Dublin’s craft culture persists through spots like Caps & Taps on Dublin Boulevard. As the final pints are poured this weekend, the community bids farewell to a space that defined a neighborhood corner for over a decade.
