Does beer expire? Should I age this imperial stout? If an IPA is two years old, can I still drink it? Have you ever asked yourself or your friend who is a self-proclaimed beer cognoscenti these questions or something like it? We are going to do our best at clearing these questions up for you! Let’s get into it.

The time has come once again to search out and find the coveted, Russian River Pliny the Younger.  For the past 16 years, people take the time to spend hours lined up outside of a few lucky establishments to witness the power and greatness of this revered beer.

Hops are one of four ingredients used to make beer. In your “hoppy” styles, or overly-hopped beers, i.e. pale ales and IPAs, it plays a larger than a quarter role.

If your New Year’s Resolution was to make healthier changes in your life, you don’t have to cut beer out. There are plenty of stories about people dropping lots of weight by cutting beer out of their diet, which is probably a big factor, but beer does have lots of positive benefits.

Craft beer stores can be overwhelming and intimidating. For most beer buying folks, their comfort zones of IPA or Lagers do just fine for them. But, when purchasing beer as a gift for someone who knows more than most, terror may strike into the hearts of those who enter the beer fridge hoping to find something that will bring joy to their loved ones heart. 

Beer has evolved an insatiable amount over the last few decades, but most people still have had only Big Beer experiences. 

Read more to find out what we are up to and how you can taste more craft beer. Because that's why we're here right?

Building-wide Thomas Fire Fundraiser Thurs 1/4 5pm. 

Thank you to all who have helped during this devastating time. 

Get ready to pump up the yams and join us for this pumpkin forward beer class!

Once a style relegated to the shadows and certain regions in Belgium, sour beer is now in the mainstream. So much so, we have to dedicate several of our taps specifically towards sour beer. We get asked all the time about what makes beer sour, so we thought we’d take a second to give a quick lesson in what makes beer sour and the different methods used to produce it. Please know that this will be a quick, barebones overview.

We get the question all the time. “Can you get ‘X’ Brewery’s beer from ‘Y’ State?” or “You should really get ‘X’ beer from my hometown. They’re great!”

With 18 breweries in Santa Barbara County - 10 of those in just the last 5 years and more on the way - the craft beer boom doesn’t show any signs of slowing down in the 805.