Woods Cervecería / Cervecería de MateVeza

August 2022. Very nice location next to a beautiful park on a hill. Around 2-3 dozen can varieties, half from the Woods brewery, and half from other breweries. Maybe 8 beers on tap. Can’t enter the store: have to order at the door and drink outside, Maybe because of CoVid. Only pints, no half pours or tasters.

Stopped by on a Tuesday afternoon and got a flight. Nothing particularly interesting - heavy on IPAs, a few non-IPAs which were fine but not really distinguished. I would not go out of my way to go here but there are definitely worse places out there.

Small airy place great beer selection and a friendly service, Nice place with a local feel.

Small place with eight of their own beers on taps some of which are quite experimental. The only food available is empanadas and they were excellent. Quick, friendly service

Small bright space thanks to the windows on two of the four sides and the white tiles on the walls. The smell of empanadas fills the room as you enter, warm crisp baking pastry. Prices for 12oz beers were $5-8, and growler/crowler prices for fills were double the draft price. 7 beers on tap, flights of 4 for $10. 3 of the beers on that day were gruits, which is something I’ve never seen before. I’ve had many gruits, just never seen a place so dedicated to the style and unapolagetically expiremental enough to try it out, espcially in what seems to be a city full of hops. Impressive. Beers were good, everything I think had yerba mate in it, or close to it since most everything had some herbs of some kind. Some of the brewing is done here on a 20 gallon system (they were racking a new brew into a fermenter while I was there), with a bunch of the others brewed at the location in Oakland.
Empanadas were amazing. The Fugazetta style one with aged cheddar, onion, and oregano – I could have stayed all day just eating those. The guy who makes the empanadas was the bartender and he was proud of them. And rightfully so. Worth going here just to eat empanadas.
Another stop on another trip. Love this place. Totally underrated, but it’s the sort of place I wish was near me, chill and funky, great beers, and awesome people.

A tad over rated IMO. Don’t get me wrong, I like this place and have enjoyed some of their beers. They have basically a glorified home brew set up here and, therefore do a lot of weird experimental stuff. Some lower gravity sours and what-not. Honestly, its been a year or two since I’ve been here and things may have changed since the whole Woods beer rebranding, but the beer was just ok for the most part. The place itself has kind of a coffee bar feel to it. Small, with a few tables and stools. The staff was helpful, friendly and knowledgeable about the beers. I can see why some folks would love this place because of the unique DIY aspect of the operations. I can appreciate that. The location is in an interesting part of town too. Overall, I do like this place although it seems a bit over rated.

Cool little place, full of hipsters with an eclectic mix of their own beer. I found everything they had to be pretty delicious. The empanadas were killer. The guy at the bar was nice and took the opportunity to let us taste a few beers before deciding on what we wanted. Overall a great stop if you are in the area.

I’m sorry, I think this place is a ten. Or whatever the scores are. It’s small, local, and comfortable. It’s not noisy, crowded, full of hipsters or overrun with people yelling into cell phones over the loud music. (The music here is cool). 5 of their brews on tap with two guest beers. And an amazing selection with that 7 to choose from. The food is empañadas, made very well, with great fillings. It’s a great place to sit, chill, grab a snack and start the night. The varieties of beers changes week to week, some things last longer; more popular selections sell out quick. Did I mention the staff? A bartender makes a place, as any pub owner will tell you, and theybhave this down. What can say, it’s become one of our hangouts and we enjoy it. Check it out. It’s in the middle of everything and really close to transit (the J Church stops right out front.)

Hmmm, not totally sure what drives the ratings. Tiny little place with one table, a bar and some bench space. Would be crowded with 10 customers. Staff is nice enough. Grungy music playing. Five of their own and two guests on tap. Empanadas in the warmer. Quiet, unassuming. Flights of four for $10.

A nice little place. A few of their own beers on tap and a guest ale, plus a few more bottles. They also have empanadas to snack on.