What Happened to The Forge After Bar Rescue? (Brandon, FL)

The Forge, an Irish pub in Brandon, Florida, was featured on Bar Rescue in the episode "Till Failure Do You Part," which aired 2022-05-29 during the show's eighth season. Coverage of the episode describes owner Patrick Crowne opening the bar in 2019 with his then-wife, Mariely Crowne, shortly before the Covid-19 pandemic; reporting on the rescue's background describes pandemic-related financial strain on the business coinciding with the end of the couple's marriage, a personal circumstance reflected in the episode's title. Bar Rescue Updates reported that Jon Taffer renamed the business from The Forge Irish Pub to Crowne Irish Pub as part of the on-air relaunch.

The same site later reported, in a February 2023 post, that Crowne Irish Pub had closed, describing the closure as occurring in July 2022, roughly two months after the episode aired. A Yelp listing for 'The Forge Irish Pub' at 109 W Bloomingdale Ave, Brandon, FL is marked closed and was updated in February 2026, consistent with the 2022 closure reported at the time. That address, rather than the one returned by this record's automated location match, is used here: the automated match instead found an unrelated business, '1916 Irish Pub,' operating several miles away at 906 W Robertson St, Brandon — a location with no reported connection to The Forge or Crowne Irish Pub.

A Census Bureau geocode lookup for 109 W Bloomingdale Ave, Brandon, FL confirmed coordinates for that corrected address. No reporting was found describing a reopening of The Forge or Crowne Irish Pub, or a different business now operating at 109 W Bloomingdale Ave, since the 2022 closure. Both sources on file — the February 2023 closure report and the February 2026 Yelp listing — are dated and independent.