Hello all, whenever I travel I like to visit the local craft brewery and sometimes because they are so small their advertising or footprint is non-existent. I'd like to get a list together of as many of them as possible. Eventually I'll turn it into a Google maps app where you can pick an area and it will show you all the local craft breweries, brewpubs and great beer bars.
I'll update the first post periodically with the info from the thread and create links to their homepages.
Let me start with what I know or have been told to go visit. This list is inclusive! So any craft beer gets included. =)
Cloverdale
Bear Republic Brewing
Visalia
Brewbakers Brewing Company and Restaurant
Fort Bragg
North Coast Brewing Company
Eureka
Lost Coast Brewery
Petaluma
Lagunitas Brewing
Dempseys (bar)
Sebastopol
Hopmonk Tavern (bar)
Novato
Moylan's
Santa Rose
Russian River Brewery
Marin
Marin Brewing Company (brewpub)
Berkeley
Bears Lair Brewpub
Bison Brewing Co.
Jupiter (brewpub)
Pyramid Brewing (brewpub?)
Tripole Rock Brewery Ale House (brewpub)
Trumer Brauerei (brewpub)
Oakland
Beer Revolution
Lindon Street Brewing
Pacific Coast Brewing Company (brewpub)
San Leandro
Drakes Brewery
Hayward
Buffalo Bills Brewery
San Francisco
21st Amendment (brewpub)
Anchor Brewing Company
Beach Chalet Breweries & Restaurant (make their own beer?)
Cherry Voodoo (new!)
Gordon Biersch (brewpub)
Magnolia Pub & Brewery(brewpub)
Rouge Ale Public House (do they brew here or just serve?)
San Francisco Brewing Company (defunct?)
Social Kithcen (still operating?)
Speak Easy Ales and Lagers
Thirsty Beer (brewpub)
Burlingame
Steelhead Tap Room (brewpub)
Foster City
BJs Restaurant & Brewery
Belmont
Devils Canyon Brewery
Palo Alto
Gordon Biersch (brewpub)
Mayfield Brewing Company
Firehouse Brewery (brewpub, East Palo Alto)
Mountain View
Tide House (brewpub)
Sunnyvale
Firehouse Brewery (brewpub)
Faultline Brewing Company (brewpub)
Campbell
Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery (brewpub)
San Jose
Gordon Biersch (brewpub)
San Jose Brewing Company
Los Gatos
Los Gatos Brewing Company
Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing
Santa Cruz Ale Works
Seabright Brewery
Uncommon Brewers
Paso Robles
Firestone Walker Brewing
San Luis Obispo
Central Coast Brewing
Creekside Brewing Company
Downtown Brewing Co
SLO Brewing Company (still operating?)
Pismo Beach
Pismo Brewing Company
Santa Margarita
Dunbar Brewing (still operating?)
Riverside
The Packinghouse Brewing Company
Santa Barbara
The Brewhouse (brewpub)
Los Angeles
Eagle Rock Brewery
Upland
Dale Bros. Brewery
Old Baldy Brewing Company
Escondido
Stone Brewing
Temecula
Barley & Hops
Huntington Beach
Brewbakers
Placentia
The Bruery
Fullerton
Bootleggers
San Clemente
Pizza Port Brewing Company (brew pub?)
San Diego
Ale Smith Brewing Company
Alpine Brewing Company
Ballast Point Brewing Company
Backstreet Brewery
Breakwater Brewing Co
The Brew House at EastLake
Green Flash Brewing
Karl Strauss Breweries
La Jola Brew House (brewpub)
Lightning Brewery
The Lost Abbey
Mother Earth Brew Company
Oceanside Aleworks
Oggi's Brewing Company
Port Brewing Company
San Diego Brewing Company
San Marcos Brewery
That's awesome but it doesn't solve my problem as how to find the places that only locals know about. I'm looking at the tools part now to see how data is add/read from their db.
In San Diego there's Rock Bottom and Hess Brewing. In Santee is Manzanita Brewing. Iron Fist Brewing opened recently in Vista.
I'm not sure how detailed you want to get on the cities, but here's the actual cities some of the ones you list under San Diego are:
Alpine Brewing Company - Alpine
Green Flash Brewing - Vista
Lightning Brewery - Poway
The Lost Abbey - San Marcos
Mother Earth Brew Company - Vista
Oceanside Aleworks - Oceanside
Port Brewing Company - Solana Beach & Carlsbad
San Marcos Brewery - San Marcos
We've got a couple Crap breweries here in the Napa Valley... Downtown Joe's in napa and Silverado Brewing Co. In St. Helena. Avoid these.
Calistoga Inn is worth a visit. Good food and decent beer.
There is so much potential for a world-class brew pub to open up here. Maybe Dog Fish Head should consider a west coast sattelite on Napa's Riverfront. They would kill it here. Not everyone here drinks wine.
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