Lost Coast Brewery is an American microbrewery located in the city of Eureka in Humboldt County, California. The eight microbrews it produces are based on research of English beers carried out by founders Barbara Groom and Wendy Pound. Lost Coast Brewery is a rare instance of a female owned microbrewery breaking into the male dominated world of microbrews.

Groom, a pharmacist, and Pound, a family counselor, began experimenting with the idea of starting their own pub in 1986. Following years of planning, home brewing, and visiting pubs in England and Wales, Groom and Pound purchased the Pythian Castle in 1989. The building went under restoration to house the pub and cafe after being purchased from the original owners, the Fraternal Order of the Knights of Pythias.

Lost Coast Brewery pub and cafe is family owned and operated and has been open for business since July of 1990. The brewery outgrew its origins in Pythian's Castle and moved to a larger building further down Highway 101 in 2005. As the 46th largest brewery in the US, Lost Coast Brewery is expected to produce 30,000 barrels despite only distributing in 19 states.

Lost Coast is brewing eight beers, including six seasonal beers all influenced by Groom's and Pound's research of English microbrews. The Downtown Brown was the first beer distributed by Lost Coast Brewery. It is a bronzed ale lightly hopped with malts.

The Downtown Brown is a dark beer without the brawny taste of a more robust beer. From 1997 through 2000, the Downtown Brown was voted number the number one beer in the Time Standard Reader’s Choice Awards as well as first place at the 2000 West Coast Beer Fest. In 2002 the Downtown Brown received a gold medal at the LA County Fair and another gold in 2003 at the California State Fair.

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