Three Sheets Craft Beer Bar is closing its doors in Dublin after nearly 12 years, with the taproom pouring its final pints this weekend as owners decided not to renew their lease on Village Parkway. The bar's One Last Cheers Weekend began yesterday and runs through closing time tomorrow, giving regulars one more chance to gather before the space goes dark for good.
The bar announced the closure on Facebook, with management writing that Three Sheets was created to bring great beer and people together, and that strangers became regulars, regulars became friends, and friends became family, according to Pleasanton Weekly. Management described the business as more than just a neighborhood beer bar, and the farewell post expressed gratitude as the taproom prepares to serve its last customer tomorrow.
Located at 7046 Village Parkway, Three Sheets built its following around 30 rotating craft beer and cider draft handles, a 200-inch projection screen, and cornhole courts, and it let patrons bring in outside food from local restaurants, per Three Sheets Craft Beer Bar. That bring-your-own-food model made the taproom a hub for food trucks and neighboring eateries over the years, though it remains unclear how those vendors will adapt once the doors close.
A Dozen Years of Regulars, Championships, and Weddings
Over its run, the bar hosted championship victory celebrations, St. Patrick's Day parades, World Cup watch parties, birthdays, anniversaries, and even first dates, engagements and wedding receptions, according to the same Pleasanton Weekly report. For its farewell, Three Sheets is rolling draft beer prices back to its original 2014 opening rates as it empties its remaining inventory, a promotion the bar announced on its event calendar and social media platforms, per the same account from Three Sheets Craft Beer Bar's own event listings.
Three Sheets was co-founded by craft beer enthusiasts Stefanie Jackel and Wendy Rather, who launched the Dublin bar in 2014 after traveling extensively across the country to sample regional craft beers, according to Neon Feast. Their vision was to offer a rotating selection of Bay Area and national craft beers in a neighborhood setting, a concept that expanded in 2019 with a second Las Vegas taproom on Casino Center Boulevard before that location closed in 2023 and the business consolidated back to Dublin's original location.
The Dublin taproom also weathered earlier disruptions. Alameda County records show the business was forced to shut down completely for roughly two months starting in March 2020 due to pandemic mandates, and the county later approved small business grant funding in June 2022 to help it recover, according to the County of Alameda. For transit riders, the bar sat about a mile from the West Dublin/Pleasanton BART station, reachable via a pedestrian footbridge over Interstate 580 to Golden Gate Drive and Village Parkway, per Beer by BART.
A Bay Area-Wide Craft Beer Slowdown
Three Sheets' exit adds to a broader wave of Bay Area craft beer closures. More than two dozen breweries and taprooms across the region have closed or liquidated since 2020, driven by rising operating expenses and shifting consumer habits, as Hoodline has previously reported. That trend has touched venues from SoMa's Black Hammer Brewing to Jack London Square's Tiger's Taproom and a San Jose brewery that shut down in a Chapter 7 filing.
The pressure shows up in national numbers too. Total U.S. craft beer production volume fell 4% in the first half of 2026 compared to the same period a year earlier, while the number of operating craft breweries nationwide declined 1.8% to 9,344, according to the Brewers Association. California remains the country's largest craft brewing state, with more than 1,100 operational craft breweries as of 2024, producing over 3.7 million barrels of beer annually.
Dublin's craft beer scene isn't disappearing entirely. Caps & Taps, a taproom and bottle shop founded by brothers Brian and Greg Lewis, still operates on Dublin Boulevard roughly a mile from the Three Sheets space, according to Visit Tri-Valley. Whether another commercial tenant will take over the Village Parkway location once Three Sheets vacates remains an open question.
For now, the focus is on the send-off. One Last Cheers Weekend gives longtime customers a chance to reconnect with familiar faces and celebrate the bar one final time before it serves its last customer Sunday, closing out nearly 12 years as a fixture of the Village Parkway corridor.
