Here’s a collage of some images from a visit I made yesterday to Alvarado Street Brewery’s production facility and tap room in Salinas. The brewery and tap room had been on my list for a while but, somehow or another, I never managed to get there whenever I was in Salinas. Yesterday, however, I was…
Category: Taprooms
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2115 Pacheco St, Concord, future home of Hop Heavy Brewing Co. Recent surveys by the Brewer’s Association indicate that in the US new craft breweries open at about one every two weeks. Our area is certainly part of that trend, with several breweries opening or due to open in the near future. Calicraft just opened…
Calicraft opens taproom in Walnut Creek (CA)
After a four-year wait, as a work-in-progress, Calicraft Brewing Company has finally opened the doors to its taproom in Walnut Creek. The taproom was opened to the general public with a soft opening on July 29th. When I got there, half an hour after opening, the line snaked through the room, and when I left…
BarBarian (Lima, Peru)
Lima’s newest addition to the growing Peruvian craft beer scene is Cerveceria Barbarian’s taproom in Miraflores: BarBarian. Located half a block from Miraflores’ main park, on Calle Bonilla, BarBarian taproom has been open only since March, and already it is a popular, standing-room-only, joint late into a Friday night. It has a friendly, open atmosphere,…