visiting Santa Barbara CA

Hollister is up there, it's a decent place.

 

GIB

 

BarrelWorks in Buellton is 30mins away.

 

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Hollister, Barrelworks, and Whole Foods. Telegraph if you are a fan of their stuff.

 

Could take a quick shot down to Ventura as well and try some Poseidon - I personally haven't sampled them yet, but I'll fix that in about 3 weeks. Fig Mountain has a taproom in SB as well which is always a fun time.

Barrelworks is definitely a must stop if you're there during operating hours.

 

As everyone has mentioned, Barrelworks is a MUST visit ... good news is that they recently expanded their opening hours ->

Monday - Thursday 2:00pm-7:00pm

Friday - Sunday 11:00am-8:00pm

 

Eureka! Has great burgers and a huge taplist with generally at least two crazy-good beers. Mercury lounge is a quiet little lounge that usually has solid beers tapped. I had parabola there Sunday night.

 

Also, almost any liquor store will have Figueroa Mountain's "Lizards Mouth" DIPA. Grab yourself a few of those!

 

Barrelworks would be your best bet and if you want food too, Eureka burger is legit. Barrelhouse 101 in Ventura (about 30 mins away) has a lot of really great offerings and great food as well.

I'm not sure of any bottle shops in SB but Oxnard has Pat Holden's liquor that has a pretty good selection.

 

http://www.beeradvocate.com/m/thread/289903/

 

I thought the beers at Hollister were really good when we were there a few months ago, we just played 18 at Sandpiper which does make beer taste better on a warm day but I think they are legit.

Cheers,

 

The Cowboy burger rocks !

Cheers,

 

The bottle shoppe in Montecito (basically part of SB) has great beers and limited stuff but usually marked up a few bucks. San Roque liquor has a decent selection. Also as previously mentioned, Lizards Mouth should be many places on draft and bottles everywhere, awesome DIPA! And another vote for barrelworks if you have the time, you wont regret making the short drive.