The lawless story
Let us bring you back to where it all first started.
Back in the late 1700s, when Walton County was part of British West Florida, the land drew hardy Scottish settlers up north near what’s now DeFuniak, and English families down south along the coast. But history had other plans. In 1783, the Treaty of Paris handed Florida back to Spain, and with it came new laws: convert to Catholicism, pay taxes to the Spanish crown—or get out. The settlers chose a third option: stubborn resistance. They flat-out refused to convert, ignored the taxes, and lived on their own terms. Spanish officials branded them “stubborn” and “ungovernable” because, no matter how hard they tried, they couldn’t force these settlers to bow to their rules. That spirit of grit, rebellion, and freedom is baked into our name: The Lawless Coast. We like to imagine our ancestors, tankards in hand, raising a smooth, cold lager as they watched Spanish ships fade into the horizon—unmoved, unbroken, and ungovernable.
Welcome to The Lawless Coast.
A place where rules bend, stories flow, and the beer always tastes like freedom.
