Exploring Craft Beer and Homebrew in Peru (Country Code 51) and the USA (Country Code 1)
I recently came across these images of the old Backus & Johnston brewery in Lima. The Backus and Johnston brewery and ice manufacturing plant was founded in 1879 by the Americans Jacob Backus and John Howard Johnston in Lima’s Rímac District. In 1889, they incorporated “The Backus and Johnston’s Brewery Company Ltd” in London in…
A while ago –yeah, I know, I’ve been slacking on my blogging– I had the opportunity to visit Good Wolf Brewing in Truckee (California). I was up there on a family weekend and, naturally, looked up local breweries at the north end of Lake Tahoe. I was already familiar with FiftyFifty, and it was a…
Barrio Brewing, just outside of downtown Tucson, is Arizona’s oldest brewery, having been established in 1991. In 2020 it became the state’s first employee-owned brewery. Set in a semi-industrial, semi-residential part of town, the brewery fits right in, with a funky industrial vibe. The inside space is dark, with lots of colored lights, games, music,…
La Cantina Brewing Company is one of Salinas’ newest breweries (the other being Brew-N-Krew Alehouse, which just opened). La Cantina is located at the north end of the historic part of downtown, half a block from the National Steinbeck Center, in the former home of the Monterey Coast Brewing Co. La Cantina is a Mexican-American…