This article explores two breweries located in San Ramon, California: Canyon Lakes Brewing, situated on a golf course, and Fieldwork Brewing's lively taproom. The writer highlights the unique aspects of each brewery, including their beer selections, atmospheres, and food offerings.
Dave Scott, a passionate golfer and brewer, achieved his dream job when he became the brewer at San Ramon 's golf course brewery , Canyon Lakes Golf Course. For this month's brewery day trip, I followed a tip from a Contra Costa County reader, Bob Skok, who suggested exploring San Ramon . He mentioned an underappreciated brewery that I needed to check out.
Join me! Canyon Lakes Golf Course is one of only two golf courses in the United States with a brewery on-site - and Canyon Lakes Brewing was the first. The other is at North Carolina's famed Pinehurst Resort. The course first opened in 1985 as a private club but Don Naumann bought the property in 2015 and reopened it two years later as a public golf course with its own brewery. Naumann, who is also the winemaker and owner of Cupertino's Wente Vineyards, saw a job listing for a new brewer at a golf course. As an avid golfer (he typically plays in two tournaments each month), it seemed almost too good to be true. As Canyon Lakes' brewer, Scott keeps 18 housemade beers on tap at any given time, including his flagship, Green Jacket, a solid West Coast IPA with great herbal flavors. Player's Premium Lager is a light lager that's easy to drink and full-flavored. The core lineup also includes Knee Knocker IPA, a smooth, not-too-sweet, hazy; Pinseeker Pale Ale; and Fairway Gold, a great throwback cream ale. The remaining eight tap handles are made up of rotating seasonals and experimental beers, allowing Scott to play around with the selections. I was especially taken with his O.B. Brown, a nutty brown ale, and Walk or Ryed, a rye IPA that was deliciously spicy.The brewery is adjacent to the golf course pro shop and its restaurant and bar, which offers an extensive menu – and you don't have to be a golfer to check it out. Across the parking lot, Fieldwork Brewing opened a taproom in San Ramon in 2018, adding to their existing eight locations across Northern California. Fieldwork was founded by East Bay native Barry Braden and his brewing partner, Alex Tweet, whom he met while working in San Diego. Tweet was brewing at Ballast Point Brewing, and the pair decided to open a brewery in the Bay Area, with Tweet in charge of the brewing end and Braden managing the business side. The original brewery opened in Berkeley in 2015, and all their beer is still brewed there today. Their San Ramon taproom is located in Bishop Ranch, the big shopping center that opened in 2018 with an array of restaurants, shops, and entertainment venues. Fieldwork's taproom takes up a corner of the complex with three rooms and a large beer garden. The back room is known as “The Links at Fieldwork” and has two Top Golf simulator stations and interactive games such as zombie baseball, dodgeball, and virtual hockey, all with ample seating for spectators. Heat lamps and an outdoor fire pit keep visitors to Fieldwork’s San Ramon taproom warm while they eat and drink outside. The taproom serves all of Fieldwork’s nearly two dozen beers organized into a few helpful categories, including Light & Lager, Sour, Belgian, and West Coast. Its line of Drink Fieldwork beverages offer a mix of craft N/A beers in different styles and Supertonics, sparkling non-alcoholic fruit drinks. And the taproom’s menu ranges from starters and salads to pizza.Perhaps you’ve noticed that early February has come and gone with no San Francisco Beer Week. This year’s celebration of Bay Area beer is a little later than usual, with events scheduled from Feb. 21 through March 2. Learn more at Know a local brewery or brewpub that’s knocking it out of the park but isn’t getting the recognition they deserve? Drop me a line at [email protected] and tell me why you love them.
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