Crank Arm Brewing
Phone: (919) 324-3529
A beer and bike-loving brewery that started in Raleigh a decade ago now has a second location on the ground floor of the Beckon Building in downtown Durham’s warehouse district. Crank Arm isn’t just a fun place to grab a quality craft beer, it’s also a place for people to connect with a community that likes to stay active through regular group bicycle rides, runs, dog walks, yoga classes and more.
Hours:
Monday: 2:00 – 10:00 PM
Tuesday: 2:00 – 10:00 PM
Wednesday: 2:00 PM – 12:00 AM
Thursday: 2:00 PM – 12:00 AM
Friday: 12:00 PM – 12:00 AM
Saturday: 12:00 PM – 12:00 AM
Sunday: 12:00 – 10:00 PM
Cuisines
- Breweries & Distilleries
Hours
Monday: 2:00 – 10:00 PM
Tuesday: 2:00 – 10:00 PM
Wednesday: 2:00 PM – 12:00 AM
Thursday: 2:00 PM – 12:00 AM
Friday: 12:00 PM – 12:00 AM
Saturday: 12:00 PM – 12:00 AM
Sunday: 12:00 – 10:00 PM
Tuesday: 2:00 – 10:00 PM
Wednesday: 2:00 PM – 12:00 AM
Thursday: 2:00 PM – 12:00 AM
Friday: 12:00 PM – 12:00 AM
Saturday: 12:00 PM – 12:00 AM
Sunday: 12:00 – 10:00 PM
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Google Rating
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Our favorite Durham bar! Good place to watch games, great beer and cocktails. We haven’t joined the bike club but like their trivia nights and walk club, they have a bunch of other events on their calendar. They are dog friendly and have a dog park next door. Some outdoor seating and usually a food truck. Parking is free for 2h in the lot right across (although not strictly enforced in our experience), but also easy street parking. And you can order food with free delivery from timber pizza or torero’s next door. Adam the owner is super nice. They’ll play whatever you want, we always come for women’s basketball games and they’ll find the channel we ask for. -
Visited on a Friday night when the bar was scheduled to close at 12am so we could watch the World Cup. We ordered drinks are were sitting close to bar watching the TV. At 10pm, the bartender turned on all the lights in the bar, locked the doors, and took out the trash. We checked our watches and the schedule on the door to make sure we were not there past closing. Nope, 2 more hours! Shortly after this, the bartender turned off all TVs. We returned our unfinished drinks to the bar and asked what the hours were. The bartender said they decided to close early today since there was no business…
I truly do not understand why the bartender could not have communicated the modified hours with us via a sign, letting us know when we ordered, or letting us know before the TV we were watching turned off!! Will not be returning :) -
Nice open space, huge variety of tasty beers. The flight comes with 5 pours which helps with the sampling.
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Crank Arm is rad in a world that is full of bad.
This place is so much more than a bar. The run club is huge, supportive, and chill; trivia welcomes all kinds of nerds; the Wednesday bike ride has grown exponentially; and Crank Arm is constantly supporting bike, walking, accessibility, and advocacy events across Durham.
They’re genuinely dog-friendly, with treats and good judgment about keeping everyone safe and happy. There’s pinball, shuffleboard, cornhole, great music, excellent TVs, NA options, and—very importantly—chips. The Saturday early karaoke is also not to be missed.
The staff, especially Adam, understand that bars can be third spaces and community spaces. They’re welcoming, responsive, and actually care about making people feel comfortable and included. Need to organize an event? Adam makes the whole process weirdly painless and pleasant.
And can we talk about the bathrooms? Four clean, spacious, single-occupancy locking bathrooms. As an aging punk, I appreciate the nostalgia of gross bar bathrooms, but I am officially over it.
Sure, occasionally someone gets grumpy because 30+ happy cyclists or runners inconvenience them for three seconds. But honestly: come join us instead.
Great beer, great people, great community, and a place where you’re allowed to show up as a whole imperfect person. Crank Arm rules. -
This bar advertises a bike club, which has never bothered me as a resident living in the same building until I was driving home and someone from the bike club actively positioned their bike in front of my car and let a ton of the bikers drive across the road vs letting myself and the 2 cars behind me pass. I inched up closer as the bikes were clearing out and she got an attitude and said we made her uncomfortable. I spoke to a bartender about it who literally could not care less. Sad this is how the bar treats the community around them.
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