Metropolitan Brewing was a brewery located in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 2008 by then-husband and wife team Doug and Tracy Hurst.

[1] It was originally located in a converted warehouse in a historically industrial area of the Ravenswood neighborhood of Chicago.

[3] Metropolitan focused exclusively on brewing lagers in the traditional German style,[4] the only craft brewery in Chicago to do so.

[5] Doug Hurst earned a brewing diploma at the Siebel Institute of Technology.

In October 2023, the brewery filed for bankruptcy, noting slow sales and unsustainable debt.