My five year plan is to visit, and thereby sample the wares of, every microbrewery in the state of California. I include the ‘big boy” craft brewers since the goal is drinking beer not business profiling. That being said, if they have multiple breweries, I consider one stop at one brewery a fulfillment of my goal.*

These are my personal ramblings about beer and should, in no way, be construed as the last word on either the subject or locations mentioned. And, since we are in the disclaimer business, let me just say two things... one, it is a lot easier to start up a webpage than an actual brewery and, two, when you are going headfirst into Chapter 11 the last thing you worry about is closing out your website. Combine that with the general uncertainty of the information highway and you won’t be overly dismayed when you track down a brewery and find it either DOA or something completely different as they say.

All these dire warnings and disclaimers will, of course, fall by the wayside every time you find that cozy little brewpub in some out-of-the-way burg where the food is good and the beer is great…

*See the amendment to this plan at the bottom of the February 26,2012 blog post...

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

ROCKS, HILLS AND DELTA WATERWAYS


Up early-ish on Friday we headed east on old highway 4 into “Gold Country”  After a brief pause to recharge at the Ranch Coffee Shop (biscuits & gravy, fried baloney sandwich… good stuff like that.) we were off to Arnold and Snowshoe Brewing. Another long and winding road, sea level to 3000 ft. but some damned fine scenery and a welcome relief from pencil straight freeways through endless, flat farmland.  The brewery is a nice bar/restaurant with a killer view but, since we had miles to go before we slept, I had a good, solid pint of Grizzly Brown Ale chatted with the barmaid about beer in general and we rolled back down the hill and ever westward to Antioch and San Francisco.
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