Cali Folk - I Need Your Help/Advice

Russian river doesn't do tours, and personally I think a 7 pm A's game followed by getting to fw at 1130 is a tad ambitious, but otherwise that all seems reasonable. Did you already book your tour at anchor?

 

Russian River doesn't do 'tours' at their pub normally, and I'm not sure if they do them at their off site brewery to the public. A friend and I got a tour, but he works at a beer store.

And unless you made reservations in advance for Anchor, you may not get in. They usually have a 2-3 month wait period last I heard.

The rest of your trip seems fine to me.

 

I'm used to being fairly hammered after baseball games and not wanting to get up early the next day, but if youre already driving back to santa clara after the game you'll be fine.

 

Yup, looks fairly reasonable. Tip: For the Stone tour, call in a reservation for 12pm. Get there at 11:50, pick up your 2pm tour tickets, go eat and drink for a couple hours, then go on the tour. And don't drink too much because they give you free tasters on the tour.

Also, Alesmith usually has food trucks on Fridays, so you can probably just eat there.

 

One other thing I'd suggest is trying to fit in a drink/meal at Magnolia.

 

Agreed with Funky. SF to Paso is a fairly long drive especially to get down there so early. Everything else looks good to me as well. Make sure you take an extra day off when you get back because damn your going to be tired.

 

Bear Republic has better food IMO.

 

• 4 p.m. - Tour/Tasting Room @ The Bruery

This will take 30 seconds. You will have pleanty of time to drink. Walk in. Look Right tables, Look left Fermenters and brewing equipment. Staight ahead, bar with Taps.

Sat Jul 7:11 a.m. - Lunch @ Alpine Beer Co.
4 p.m. - Tour @ USS Midway/Coronado Island

Be careful here. The San Diego freeways can get pretty backed up especially after 4th of July and summer time. Alpine is in the Boonies. Midway is WAY downtown and parking is a bitch. You have to cross the bridge to get across to Coronado so thats a pain as well.

Cheers!

 

For Thursday the 5th, the Bruery Tasting room won't be open. I have heard that they will be expanding hours there but for now they are only open Fri-Sun (Keep an eye on their website as this could change in the next month or two). Bootlegger's though does open at 4 on Thursdays, no tour as you are pretty much in the middle of their brewery at the tasting room but you can enjoy some beers.

 

Great itinerary (love all the baseball) and it looks like you've gotten a bunch of great advice. The only things I can add are about this:

I'm not sure if there are non-beer related items on your schedule, or lots of driving, but if you're looking for stuff in LA there's actually plenty these days. Eagle Rock Brewery is close to dodger stadium and their beers are totally decent to good. they open at 4 on wednesdays. Sunset Beer Co is a long home run away from dodger stadium and has a fair amount of bottles and a few taps, and is a pretty cool place. plus wednesdays they don't charge a corkage fee so you can open anything you buy there without the small fee. There are also some good bars nearby, Far Bar, the Verdugo, and Mohawk Bend. And a little farther away (though still within a 5-10 minute drive) is Golden Road Brewing, whose brews are solid.

 

I know I've chimed in enough on the subject but maybe I can put some misspelled words for you to attack.

Alpine to the Midway is like a 40 minute drive, give yourself an hour so you have plenty of time to find parking/traffic and whatever.

I'm extremely glad you decided to do lunch at Hollingshead's, that's a packed day, pace yourself better then DLD.

Anyone else down for a bottle share Friday night? If not, I will host you and your buddy at my place Mark. If other BA's want to jump in we may need a little bigger place to do it. Nano and crew you guys in on this?

 

Getting a table at Hollingshead's for lunch mid-week is a task. Tons of people from CHOC and surrounding businesses come in there from 11:30-2. Also, you do not want to be anywhere around the 55, 57, 91, or 5 freeways during rush hour (the drive from The Bruery to The Big A). I would personally consider flip-flopping your Bruery and Hollingshead's times. Hollingshead's will be much more accommodating of a small group in the later hours of the afternoon, and you can take side streets from there to Angel Stadium... I have even made that walk before. This may create a problem with getting "Lunch", but you could always do Bruery for drinks, then a place like "The Catch in Anaheim" for a true Lunch/beer, then Hollingshead's for more beer and a final snack or sandwich before the game.

Sounds like an awesome trip. I'll gladly buy you a beer if I run into you around Orange County

 

Dibs on MY the spare room...

 

I'm up for the down stroke. We gonna tear the roof off the mother sucker.

 

Welcoming an out-of-towner with a bottleshare? Love it!