With twenty-eight bottled beers and another three or four on tap, Barrelista Coffee House is working out to be one of the better beer spots in downtown Martinez! Barrelista Coffee House 736 Main Street Martinez, CA
Anchor Christmas Ale and Spirit Release
On November 7th I had the opportunity to partake of a VIP brewery tour of Anchor Brewing and Anchor Distilling in San Francisco. The event was Anchor’s 2015 Media Brewery Tour to mark this year’s release of their Winter Wheat Ale and the 2015 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year ale, from the brewery, and…
The Rare Barrel
Impossible Soul Golden sour beer aged in oak barrels with tart and sweet cherries pH 3.38 / ABV 7.2 Cosmic Dust Golden sour beer aged in oak barrels with hibiscus pH 3.47 / ABV 5.4 The Rare Barrel 940 Parker St Berkeley, CA 94710 www.therarebarrel.com
Cerveza Hops (Lima – Peru)
The first craft brewery I visited on this trip was actually Hops in Lima’s Pueblo Libre district, just down the street from the Queirolo tavern and kitty-corner across the plaza from the Archaeology and Anthropology Museum. Hops does not seem to emphasize its beer production side very much, but rather seems to have put…