Exploring Craft Beer and Homebrew in Peru (Country Code 51) and the USA (Country Code 1)
A brewery that I’ve been meaning to write about for some months, but somehow never got to it, is Donner Creek Brewing in Truckee, California. Donner Creek –which classes itself as a pico-brewery, meaning that it is smaller than a micro-brewery, and smaller, even, than a nano-brewery– is located in a storefront near a business…
In mid-July, several weeks into my recent trip to Lima, my cousins and I went out for beers at CervecerÃa +51, a brewpub to which I had been to once before, but was new to them. +51 –a name taken from Peru’s telephone country prefix– is located on Jiron Huamachuco, in the district of Jesus…
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…