Oakland was a great brewing town at one time, and Adam Lamoreaux, the
founder of the Linden Street Brewery, vows that it will be again. After
years of delays, the brewery, located down by the railway tracks in
West Oakland, just started pumping out its first production brew, the
“Urban People’s Common Lager.” It is a clean, crisp cross between a
lager and an ale, with a nice hoppy bite. Lamoreaux was known for the
Friday-afternoon keggers at the brewery last year, when he was contract
brewing out of the Drake’s Brewery in San Leandro. But you don’t have
to go down to Linden Street for the beer, he is delivering to The
Trappist and Penelope’s in downtown Oakland, the Brown Sugar Kitchen on
Mandela Parkway, and the Fireside in Alameda. Stay tuned; he plans to
introduce two new beers in the coming months: Burning Oak black lager
and Golden Glow light lager, named after a local beer that the former
Golden West Brewery produced in Oakland in the 1940s and 1950s.
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