April 2008 We popped in on this industrial micro unannounced and at least an hour off their advertised tour timeline. But nonetheless, we were greeted with warm receptiveness and an impromptu short tour of their bulging-at-the-seems brewery. What a friendly crowd! An original micro, growing so much they’re stretching their waist size, but still living up to the small guy cool factor (What we wished Sierra Nevada was like). All the way nice. Lagunitas is now officially my default Fridge IPA. Way to go. (Brewery #456, 4/10/2008)

Visited on august 16, 2009. The new pub is not finished, but they are serving beer (kitchen should open in a few months..they where serving warmed hot-dogs for 5$). I was told this will be a quite modern place, with heated seats for winter months....but right now, it is still makeshift, but very promising. They do offer a sampler of their regular beers, but, asking very nicely, i managed to get the seasonals and one-offs, alas in plastic 5 on cups...free peanuts, live music on the terrasse, friendly service by tattooed maidens...its all good.

Nice venue. Sadly the multitude of taps only had readily available ales*, and the beer engines were not hooked up. It seems to be the equivalent of a local. Kind of dark; horseshoe bar, casual everything. Wish I lived nearby. Note: At 2 PM parking was very, very unavailable. Just tooled around a bit til someone pulled out. *Ditto for bottles in the shop.

Tucked in an industrial area just off of 101. Can be easy to drive past if you’ve never been before. The beer garden area is really cool. Big outdoor area with long picnic tables, a covered patio with more tables, and a decent size indoor bar area. Some nice tap only beers available at the bar, usually at least one special cask on as well. Service can be kind of spotty, but usually pretty good. Flights are well priced.

On a sunny day, the beer garden here is probably the coolest place to hang out that I have been to in America so far. Like Bavaria come to Northern CA. Lovely place, with all kinds of activities going on, decent food, lots of inexpensive beers to choose from, fun, fun fun. The beer selection is limited to their stuff, though there were like 15 on tap. If I lived nearby, I’d hang here whenever the weather was nice.

Might have just found beer heaven. Awesome beer garden. Flights of 4 brews for under 6 bucks. And it’s Lagunitas, so the beer rocks.

Stopped by Labor Day afternoon. I soon found out that they were doing an out door concert and the places was packed. Really good vibe though. Took forever to get a drink (but given the crowd I was not surprised). Friendly atmosphere. Really good beers (served in big mugs or in sample sizes). A few barrel aged beers that were very tasty (BA Cappuccino Stout and Brandy Barrel Hairy Eyeball) as well as stand byes such as Hop Stoopid. All in all it was a great stop!

Fun place! Lots of beer, tons of room to enjoy the beer and food. Ultra friendly. Loved it.

Hopped up here during beer week 2012 to try some limited or brewery only offerings from one of my favorite brewers. Wow, this place has a very cool big outdoor yet covered patio space with Adirondack chairs and regular chairs and benches making for a relaxing experience. I sat inside at the bar where service was at times surprisingly sluggish even though I’m only arms reach from the taps and the staff would pour beer after beer and let me sit here for 20 minutes with an empty glass (or no glass) in front of me. Hmm. I didn’t like that so much. Like everywhere I’ve been I met friendly people. I did enjoy the varied offerings when I was able to get attention of the staff and enjoyed talking beer with like-minded beer geeks. I had some food and it was yummy and not long after getting there they tapped a couple of firkins and started up the live music. Fun place but sitting at the bar right at the taps was a poor choice to get beer in my experience.

hmmmm, well after going to Russian River right before this, i have to say i was a bit let down. service was so-so however, it was uber busy the day i visited. the waitress screwed up my beer sampler and the beers i got were really bad. didnt seem fresh at all. very muddled and almost stale. food was bland however, the atmosphere and scenery (women) was amazing! i would go back here on a weekday to soak it all in more.