Your first stop in this comfort food-and-drink paradise is Wedge Brewing Company for a pitcher of the brisk and thirst-quenching Julian Price Pilsner. Take it outside and sip it in the sculpture-filled courtyard, chomp some local green-boiled peanuts and watch the freight trains snake by.
Wicked Weed Brewing makes—you guessed it—super hop-heavy behemoths. The get: Freak of Nature Double IPA.
At Oyster House Brewing Company, sidle up for a silky and bright Moonstone Oyster Stout, which will balance out your bivalve’s briny nuances.
At Altamont Brewing Co., where bluegrass bands strum almost daily, foosball and ping-pong are free and house-made beers, like the ESB, are served straight from the giant conditioning brew tank.
Later this summer, California craft stalwart Sierra Nevada will debut its first East Coast brewery. Our advice: Buy tickets for its August 3 kickoff party and beer blast.