Kuumba Smith started brewing beer in 1998. That same year, his Short Order Porter — an imperial breakfast porter built on coffee, maple syrup, cacao nibs, and hazelnut — won the Riverside Shootout Homebrew Competition at Martin House Brewing in Fort Worth. That win was the signal. It took another 28 years, a failed search for a location in Collin County, a lease signed in January 2023, a zoning dispute that consumed more than a year before the permit team would even look at the application, and a soft opening on June 13, 2026 — but Smittox Brewing is open at 930 E. Clarendon Drive in east Oak Cliff, near the Dallas Zoo, and it is the first fully Black-owned brewery in the Dallas area.
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