Beer Garden Open at Alameda Point

ALAMEDA, CA — Almanac Beer Company has opened a beer garden at the former Navy base at Alameda Point.

Whether your taste buds are primed for a pilsner, kolsch, or IPA, you can get your favorite on tap, in a can, or bottle. You can also take some home with you or order for pickup.

If you want to try something different, how about an oak-aged beer? Currently on tap:

• Sunshine & Opportunity: Dry-hopped sour ale aged in oak barrels with pear juice
• Strawberry Sournova: Sour ale aged in oak barrels with strawberries and vanilla beans
• Tropical Sournova: Sour ale aged in oak barrels with passion fruit, pineapple, blood oranges & vanilla
• Nectarine Cobbler: Vintage sour farmhouse ale aged with nectarine peach, and spice
• Fruit Cobbler: Vintage sour farmhouse ale aged with peaches, blueberries, and spice

If you think that beer and food go hand-in-hand, and who doesn't, there's also a steady parade of food trucks to try:

• Every Monday: Scolari's Good Eats
• Every Tuesday: La Santa Torta
• Every Wednesday: Scolari's Good Eats
• Every Thursday: Scolari's Good Eats
• Friday, October 29: Scolari's Good Eats
• Saturday, October 30: Scolari's + Fogg's Confections
• Sunday, October 31: Scolari's + La Santa Torta

Draft beers go for $6 to $8 each. Watch the alcohol content — they range from 4.2 to 10.25%.

Almanac has been around since 2011, founded by avid home-brewers Damian Fagan and Jesse Friedman.

If you're wondering about the name, Almanac refers to the Farmer’s Almanac, a reference guide for farmers that has been published annually since 1818.

According to the company's website, the founders "set out to brew beers inspired by California’s rich agricultural bounty, and brewed our first beer (named, “Summer 2010”)—a bottle-conditioned Belgian-style golden ale aged in Sonoma Zinfandel barrels with Sonoma blackberries. We hand-sold that first batch one case at a time out of the trunks of our cars to local bars and restaurants in the Bay Area. The beer was so well received that we continued brewing and releasing quarterly beers for the next two years until we garnered enough support to quit our day jobs to pursue Almanac full time in 2013."

Their Alameda Point production and aging facility is a 30,000 square-foot former Naval hangar originally constructed in 1942 that boasts 37 foot ceilings, exposed original redwood beams, and hundreds of oak barrels and foudres.

Visit the Almanac Beer Company website for more information.

Hours:

• Monday-Thursday: 12pm-9pm
• Friday-Saturday: 12pm-10pm
• Sunday: 12pm-8pm

CLICK HERE to place an order for pickup.

Phone: 415-992-3438 Ext. 1

Email: alamedataproom@almanacbeer.com

Salut!