Exploring Craft Beer and Homebrew in Peru (Country Code 51) and the USA (Country Code 1)
Last weekend I had the opportunity to check out the digs for Five Suns Brewing in downtown Martinez (California). Five Suns is the brainchild of five friends (though I think a couple of ’em might be brothers) who decided to open a brewery together. By putting in a great deal of “sweat equity” into their…
Well, it has been quite a while since I posted anything. I got sick and then busy, what with Thanksgiving thrown in there and a few other things. Pretty much all fun (except for the being sick part) but they kept me busy. I did have a couple of posts in mind, both on beer…
In July I visited Brewpub Wicks for the first time. Wicks, which is located in Barranco district, kept turning up on Untappd, so I’ve known about its existence for a year or two, and that it seemed to be a beer pub oriented primarily at English-speaking expats. Well, it turns out that Wicks also makes and…
Monterey Coast Brewing Co., is located about 10 miles inland, in downtown Salinas, and has been around for at least a dozen years. Until recently it was Salinas’ only brew-on-premises establishment open to the public. (Monterey’s Alvarado Street Brewery now has a production facility in Salinas with an attached tap room.) The brewpub is actually…