![]() When I was there, they included Prancing Pony, an extra special bitter or ESB Jonah and the Ale, a refreshingly light blonde ale ’Ello Poppet, a hazy IPA and Unicorn’s Blood, a fruited sour brewed with peach and raspberry. Shamus Mooney, who was a brewer there when it was East Cliff, continues to brew the beer, and they’ve expanded their offerings beyond cask-conditioned beer with a dozen beers on tap at any given time. In addition to the taproom, there’s a room with ping pong tables, dart boards and other diversions, and a large outdoor seating area out front. Those first months - the brewery opened in October 2020 - were challenging, but the staff made it through by canning Greater Purpose beer for curbside pickup. Now the taproom bustles with energy, food trucks stop by daily and there are trivia nights, open mics and other event pop ups. Despite the challenges of the pandemic, it’s thriving now. ![]() Santa Cruz’s Greater Purpose Brewing opened its doors in 2020. ![]() Some 30 to 60 percent of the brewery’s profits are donated to local nonprofits, says board member Maria Romero. The progressive Greater Purpose Community Church took over the brewery space in the hopes that the new business might help support the church’s charitable efforts. Two miles away, you’ll find Greater Purpose Brewing tucked inside the building that once housed East Cliff Brewing, which specialized in cask-conditioned English-style ales during its brief run. Most of NuBo’s beers are available in cans, which can be ordered via and shipped directly to you. Unlike most chocolate beers, this one is crystal clear but loaded with rich chocolate flavor.ĭetails: The brewpub is open from 11:30 a.m. He also brews a terrific Vienna lager, Velvet an authentic Bavarian hefeweizen, Highway to Hefe and the style-bending HelleSexy, a chocolate lager originally created as a collaboration with Pete Slosberg, who started Pete’s Wicked Ale in the 1980s and later had a successful artisan chocolate company. You’d be hard-pressed to find many authentic Czech pilsners outside Bohemia better than this one. Satterthwaite makes some tasty traditional and experimental IPAs, from The Flow, a great West Coast IPA, to The Fuzz, a Japanese white peach hazy IPA that really works.īrewery day trips: 3 Sonoma County hot spotsīut the real joys here, as you’d expect, are the lagers, especially the flagship Pilsner Soquel. NuBo typically has 10 beers on tap and another 10 available by the can. (I also really like the giant pretzel - it’s as big as your head, maybe bigger - served with their beer cheese sauce.)Īs good as the food is, it’s the beer that’s the star. The tented beer garden is a pandemic-era addition, as is the smoker out back, which produces some delicious barbecue. The two-story building is compact, but includes plenty of seating on both floors with more outside. NuBo’s location in Santa Cruz’s Pleasure Point neighborhood is just a few blocks from the beach. Satterthwaite spent nearly a decade as brewmaster at Gordon Biersch, but he knew early on that he wanted to create his own brewery. The Bohemia name is a nod to the Czech Republic region where pilsners were first brewed in the 1840s. It’s evident in the beer the UC Santa Cruz alum brews at New Bohemia - or NuBo, as the brewery is affectionately known. New Bohemia Brewingĭaniel Satterthwaite’s passion for lagers dates back to his days in Germany at Brauerei Ketterer, where he learned to brew 20 years ago. But there was one particular brewery I’d been dying to check out, having enjoyed everything of theirs I’d tasted at festivals and events. My Bay Area brewery tour took me to Santa Cruz recently, where the craft brewing scene has really exploded in the last few years. You’d need a weekend or more to take it all in.
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