Santa Clara Valley Brewing

 

(#30 of 49) We stopped here to meet up with another BA member and to try this brewery's beers. The pub is located in a multiple-occupancy, light-industrial strip setting with parking at the front. The place was full, but not jammed for a Friday evening. Since the place is fairly new maybe the word isn't out yet about how good the beers are here. The vibe here was okay, as was the service for being a busy place. We liked that they used growlers as their light fixtures.

We ordered two flights of 4 beers so that we could try 8 of the 13 beers that were available (two were on nitro taps). Each of them were brewed very well to the correct style, and all of them exceeded style characteristics so that we scored them in a range from a B-minus to a B grade. We discovered that the SJSBA IPA that we had just had at Strike Brewing on our previous stop was actually a collaboration beer and is properly called Super Juicy Slightly Brett Ale here. We also really liked the New Almanden Imperial Red, the Electric Tower IPA, and the Big Moody Barleywine. Well done Santa Clara Valley Brewing.

There is no food served here, but a food truck was parked in front of the pub. We weren't hungry, but everyone who walked by carrying food left a trail of an amazing aroma from their food. This pub is very worthy of a return visit someday.

New brewery had to try it out, Beers were good. They had a couple of IPA's worth trying and a Sour called Hearts delight was pretty good. Vibe was nice had a lot of board games going on that were turned into drinking games.