Pacific Brew News

This past weekend was Sacramento’s Maibock Festival hosted by the good guys at Rubicon Brewing Company – an annual event at Sacramento’s most celebrated brewery. The event is fairly low-key if compared to the festivals in the city these past few weeks (Raley Field and West Coast), with nine samples on tap from regional [...]

Planning a trip to North Lake Tahoe anytime soon? Well, you’ll want to add a stop to your list, as Fifty Fifty Brewing Company is opening their doors today, May 24! Yes, the much anticipated brewery has everything in place and 4 of their 7 house made beers ready to pour beginning at [...]

Written By Jeff Barber, PBN Staff
The first stop, since we wanted to start light, it was the first tent, and they had the gold medal American Pale Ale, was Kona Brewing for their Fire Rock Pale Ale. While good, it lacked the hop character that you would expect from an American Pale Ale, especially for [...]

I was recently in Sonoma for a wedding, and as I always do I went in to some beer shops to see what the local brewers were putting out. I had heard of the Lagunitas “Sonoma Farmhouse” label, with Hop Stoopid gaining much attention in 2007; however, I had not found the products in [...]

I was given a 12oz bottle of the beer recently, told I’d like it by a friend of mine. I’ve had good experiences with some of the Bison brews, their Honey Basil being one of my personal favorites of theirs. I am pretty sure I’ve had this beer in the past, but tonight [...]

I need to say up front that I am not a big fan of chain restaurants, or chain breweries. I’ve been to a number of them up and down the west coast. I won’t be calling any out here, that’s not a goal of mine. However, I would like to take a [...]

The Scene: Raley Field is a wonderful baseball park just off the river and only minutes from Sacramento’s downtown. Strangely, this brew fest was not on the field as many expected, but instead was held on the concorse behind the seats. The good news was it was all under the shade and provided [...]

Living in Northern California we are surrounded by shiny things and upscale places. We’re fortunate, at PBN, to live in such close proximity to a wonderful wine and beer bar we have enjoyed supporting for the last year or so – a new place that looks like a good upscale bar should, clean, fashionable [...]

If you’re a beer blog reader, you’ve read about this already. If you’re a die-hard PBN in fan (ha! that was funny) then maybe this is new.
CAMRA (the beer thugs overseas) have come together to deem May “Mild Month”. I won’t claim to know a whole lot about the intentions for this, [...]

I have more on this in the works, but wanted to put out a notice for the beer lovers of the region.
I was fortunate enough to spend an evening at the still-under-construction Auburn Alehouse last night and feel I should pass on the word that Brian Ford will be opening shop by the end of [...]