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[authorsadiethatcher]

I've seen the stage hypnotist trope used a few times, but I've never touched it before. Until now. This was a fun story to write and as proof of that, I wrote most of it in a single day. Also, this came out of a commission, which has worked out nicely.

Party Girl is available from Amazon, Smashwords, Google Play, and Ream (Advanced Bimbo Tier).

Janine is a devoted college student. Even when on summer vacation, visiting Miami as part of a work retreat her friend Rebecca is attending, her focus is on her senior thesis. But that all changes when Rebecca persuades Janine to join her at a stage hypnotist show put on by her company. Janine ends up on stage, going by her middle name, Cearra, and she becomes a party girl bimbo for the duration of the show. Except Cearra remains in charge when the show is over. Janine gets thrust into the background as the new party girl explores all that this new life has to offer. And Miami has plenty for a party girl to enjoy. What will happen to Janine/Cearra? Will Rebecca be able to save her friend? Or will she be a party girl bimbo forever? Find out in Party Girl.

[captnbarnesrogers]

My Number One, My Always Will Be King

Pairing/Characters: Dad!Tony x Daughter!Reader, Mom!Pepper, OC (Derek)

Warnings: Not much, Reader gets caught kissing/making out, angst, swearing, heated make out sesh

Summary: Tony’s daughter is growing up a little too fast, he knows this because she’s brought a boy home which she did not intend for him to see.

Word Count: 1764

A/N: OH LORDY THANK YOU FOR 100+ FOLLOWERS!!! CAN’T BELIEVE THERE’S SO MANY OF YOU READING MY FICS! Also PEPPER IS SUCH A QUEEN!!!! <3 <3 <3 Thank you @purplekitten30 for requesting the Dad!Tony fic :*

You sat on the kitchen bench top, Derek’s hips wrapped in between your legs as he kissed you passionately. Your hand crumples the hem of his shirt while his hand was pushing you closer to him by pushing the nape of your neck forward. His lips pull away from your swollen ones as he trails his plump lips down your neck. Derek’s hand travels up to grab your hair and you moan, rolling your eyes back, You rip his shirt open, the buttons flying off and push it off as he continued his assault on your neck.

“Pepper, honey, I’m home!” your eyes widen as you hear the unexpected voice from the hallway,

“Daddy?” you whisper, Derek pulls away from your neck and gives you a smirk,

“Baby, why didn’t you tell me?” you look at him confusingly and backtrack what you’d said before, realising what that must’ve sounded like to him,

“What? No!… I mean, maybe,” You giggle and hear the footsteps got closer and louder and you knew you had to get him out of here, “My dad’s home from Japan! Shit!” You jump off of the bench top and grab his shirt on the floor, shoving it into his chest, “Put it on.”

“Babe, you broke the buttons!”

“Derek you have to leave!” you whisper-yell but before you could lead him to the back door, you hear the drop of a bag and you knew you were fucking screwed.

“Y/N.” you hear the stern voice behind you, fuck fuck fuck, you turn around to meet the enraged eyes of your father. You smile and Derek stood there dumbfounded, unable to move, his face flushed from embarrassment,

“Daddy, you’re home!” you ran up to him and give him a small smile, “Wh-what’re uh... you doing home so early?” His stare intensified towards Derek while he answered your nervous voice,

“Meeting went quicker than expected.” Tony noticed your messy hair, his broken and buttonless shirt, and both of your flushed as crimson faces and put two and two together, his insides just imploded, “Who the hell is this?”

“Dad this is my uh, my boyfriend Derek Xavier.”

“It’s a pleasure to meet you, sir, uh Mister Stark, I- uh I’m so sorry for the uh-” Derek held out his hand, Tony stares at his gesture and rolls his eyes, Derek lowers his hand,

“I really don’t care, get him out and we’re gonna have a little chat.” He says as he walks off,

“Dad!”

“Not another word, Y/N.” you look at Derek apologetically but he understands, caressing your cheek and grabbing your hand, pressing a kiss to your fingers,

“It’s okay, Y/N, I promise, I’m not going anywhere.” He lets go of his hand, kisses you on the cheek and shows himself out.

You make your way up the stairs to your dad’s room. Your heart was beating quickly but not from fear or nervousness but from anger. You just didn’t understand, you were eighteen. You promised him no boyfriends until you were eighteen, nearing nineteen, and you did just that. You weren’t a disobedient daughter, you loved your father very much but you just couldn’t shake the fact that he was still acting like you’re his precious five-year-old playing tea party near his desk. You weren’t that little girl anymore. You were a young woman studying in college, you were doing your internship at one of the most credible law firms, your grades were always up, you never disrespected your parents and you always came home at a reasonable time when you were out with some friends. The only reason you’d hidden Derek from your dad was because you knew this would happen but the past eight months were the happiest you’ve ever been and you weren’t about to let it go just because your dad refused to stop treating you like a child.

“Is he gone?” Tony asked,

“Just like you rudely told me to, dad.” you snapped back,

“You’re grounded for two weeks-” your eyes widened,

“What!? No I-”

“Two weeks, Y/N, no friends over, you’ll go to your internship and straight back home.”

“For what, Dad!? I didn’t do anything wrong!” You protested at his punishment,

“You bring a goddamn boy over our house and then you look like you’ve just… Not another word, Y/N. You’re grounded and that’s final!”

“You’re being unreasonable.” You begin to tear up, “This is unfair!”

“Life’s not fair, sweetheart, it never has been.”

“I love him, Dad!” he stops in his tracks,

“What did you just say?”

“God!” Your tears begin to flow down as you look up, trying to stop them from rolling down, “You just- you don’t understand!” You walk away and bump into your mother whose smile fades when she sees your sadness,

“Sweetie, what’s wrong?” you disregard her question and run to your room, “Tone, what the hell did you do?”

“She bought a fucking boy over and I caught them looking like they just… You know.”

“A boy? You mean Derek?” she asks her clueless husband,

“Wait a minute, Pepper, you knew about this and you didn’t even care to, I don’t know, tell your husband, the father of your child?!”

“You are an idiot.” she argues, “I’m her mother, she came to me about it! He’s been courting her out of respect to you! She loves him, Anthony! She didn’t say yes for three years because she thought she’d disappoint you!”

“Three years? He’s stayed with her for three years?” she nodded, he sighs, wanting to backhand himself across the room, “You think she’s mad?”

“I don’t know, Tone, did she look happy to you?” Pepper rolls her eyes at him, walking to the drawer and pulling out a card. She grabs a pen and writes down some numbers, “Go talk to her and then call Derek’s house and invite him for dinner.” She hands him the note, “You’d be surprised at just how amazing of a kid he is.”

Tony stands up from his spot on the bed and exits his room, walking himself to your room with a heavy heart. He stands at your door and takes a deep breath before knocking.

“Y/N? You awake, sweetheart?” He peeks his head into your room and sees you clutching on your Mickey Mouse stuffed toy that he bought you when you were seven. He sees your eyes blinking out tears and it breaks his heart, he did that, he made you cry and it was all because of his goddamn pride and his over-protectiveness, “Can I come in?” He takes your silence as a sign of agreeing with his question of entrance. There was nothing but silence and tension in the air as you weren’t ready to speak to your father just yet and he felt too ashamed to speak after what he did. He sighed and massaged the bridge of his nose.

“I’m sor-” he begins,

“I broke up with him, it’s fine, Dad.” You let go of your stuffed toy and slid yourself out of the bed and into the bathroom,

“Y/N I-”

“Dad, seriously, you have nothing to worry about now, Internship and school and straight back home.” He realised how much of your life you spent trying to make him happy, trying to make him proud. You did it so much that you gave up the things that made you happy. He remembers when you were eleven and you were into art but that wasn’t what he wanted you to do so you stopped and told him you didn’t really like doing art anymore but all you wanted to do was draw your emotions. Piece by piece he puts together all the times you’d given up something because you thought it would disappoint him. All this time he thought he was being a good father but all he was doing was crushing you, inside out. “We weren’t really together that long anyway.” You walk out of the bathroom fresh faced and smile at him, then kissing his cheek.

“Y/N, why would you do that?”

“Why would I do what?”

“Break up with him.”

“I d-didn’t really like him anyway.” You lied, swallowing the lump in your throat,

“You loved him.” Tony corrects,

“W-what? No, I just- I said that in the heat of the moment.” You fake giggle but he catches on,

“Don’t you dare lie, Y/N. You have spent eighteen years of your life trying to make me happy,” he begins, standing up and facing you, “I realise that as much as I thought I was being the best father I could be, I was being a fucking horrible guy and keeping you away from all the things you should be doing and all the things o-or people that make you happy. I guess I was just afraid of losing my little girl, my kid who would wrap herself around my leg before I went to work…”

“But that’s just it, Dad, I’m not that little girl anymore.” you admit, tears flowing freely once again from your eyes,

“I know and I’m sorry for putting you in a place like this, I’m sorry that I was the reason you had to break up with your boyfriend,” He lowers his head, too scared to look back at you, “There is nothing more I want than to see you happy, sweetheart.”

“He makes me so happy, Dad, so so happy.” He finally lifts his head up and sees you smiling at just the thought of this boy, “He’s so good to me a-and he treats me like a queen, I’ve never been so happy with anyone in my life.”

“I can see that,” he holds his arms out to you, “C’mere.” He holds you close and kisses the top of your head,

“You’ll always be my number one guy, Dad, you’re always gonna be my king,” you sigh and look up at him, “but unfortunately for you a prince came along and swept me off of my feet.” He laughs at you,

“Unfortunately.” he says smiling softly, “I know you guys just broke up but I’m sure he’s still harbouring feelings for you, you think he’ll wanna have dinner with us?”

“I just wasted eight months of us being together, you think he’ll take me back?”

“He’d be an idiot not to, princess,” he protests, “and besides, I have an Iron suit, what does he have?”

“He’s uh… he’s a mutant.”

“Like the X-Men?” Tony questions,

“He is an X-Men.”

“Well, shit.” You both laugh and Pepper joins you both in a family hug.

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[myqueenmarceline]

Character ref sheet for Louisa and Cearra, my gay witches. I’ve got a couple more writing requests, so this isn’t the last you’ll see of them today!

Note: Louisa is wearing sunglasses, bright light hurts her eyes!

For @somekindoffan, who is *possibly* interested in drawing them.

[wineanddinosaur]

The California Brewers Bypassing Buyouts in Favor of ‘Beer With Soul’

People living in urban centers tend to sniff at the sameness of the suburbs, but these days, a lot of American cities look uncannily alike. There are Targets and Soulcycles as far as the eye can see, and an array of cookie-cutter coffee shops that vaguely resemble WeWorks.

“As corporate America has grown, you have these strip malls. You can pop into a city and not really know where you’re at, because these developments look so similar. They’re all selling the same things,” Rob Archie, co-founder of Urban Roots Brewery in Sacramento, Calif., says.

“But with beer, it’s different. You can go into a brewery and taste the region,” he adds, and points to Sacramento’s steadfastly local brewery scene as a prime example.

In Sacramento, very few breweries distribute their beers nationally. Instead, they prioritize their hyper-local markets, delivering kegs to nearby restaurants by request, and finding their next-door neighbors first in line on can release days.

Urban Roots Brewing in Sacramento, Calif. Credit: Urban Roots Brewing / https://ift.tt/2ChoW1m

It’s a throwback business model with refreshingly inclusive results. By focusing on their communities, Sacramento’s brewpubs provide the multi-generational and -cultural spaces absent from many American cities.

“The thing about Sacramento is, it’s a fairly big city with a very small-town feel,” Justin Chechourka, author, “Sacramento Beer Craft History,” says. “You’ve got some big-time producers like Knee Deep, which is available across the country. Track 7, same thing. But then we’ve also got the guys who are like, ‘Look, we’re just want to make beer for our neighborhood.’”

California’s capital is the third-largest city in the state and has one of the country’s most diverse populations. From 1950 to 1970, however, more than half of downtown residents moved to the suburbs, leaving blocks of industrial buildings that, until quite recently, remained unoccupied. “The city faced dire financial straits in the 1980s and 1990s, due to suburban flight and broad destabilization,” Cearra Cannon, a tour guide with Local Roots, says.

Now Sacramento is on an upswing, thanks to billions of dollars of urban reinvestment and an influx of arrivals from the overpriced barracks of the Bay Area. Beer is an economic driver, too.

In the last 10 years, the number of breweries in greater Sacramento has grown from nine to 70, according to the tourism board. This is not the only American city undergoing a beer-soaked revolution, of course; the Brewers Association reports nearly 80 percent of drinking-age Americans live within 10 miles of a brewery. But Sacramentans are especially proud of their beer scene. Some even feel it’s their birthright.

“Sacramento was the top hops-growing region before Prohibition. We had more breweries than any city in America other than Milwaukee,” Nick Leonti, director of tourism, Visit Sacramento, says. “And then Prohibition came along, and all those breweries had to shut down.”

Alaro specializes in classic beer styles. Credit: Alaro Brewing / facebook.com

While hops production has long since relocated to Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, the city’s agricultural identity remains strong, thanks to its proximity to U.C. Davis and the Sacramento Valley farmlands (the latter reported $507 million gross value in 2016). As a result, several Sacramentans casually use the term “farm to fork” to describe their locally inspired restaurants, and pride themselves on their admittedly exceptional Sunday farmers market.

Archie believes these agricultural ties helped propel the city’s resurgent craft beer scene. “Being one of the most diverse growing regions in the world you have great restaurants, great produce, so it makes sense you get really into fresh beer,” he says.

Local pride runs deep. “This town rallies around things. They rally around the Sacramento Kings when they’re good — actually, it doesn’t even matter if they’re good. The Kings sold out for like 15 straight years because the town just rallies around them,” Chechourka says. “The beer community does the same thing. What [beer] offers, in a lot of ways, is a new place to socialize, a new place to gather that wasn’t there before.”

One of the first spots to do so was Pangaea Bier Cafe, a beer-focused restaurant Archie opened in the Curtis Park neighborhood in 2008. It was inspired by the European brewpubs he visited while living in Italy as a professional basketball player.

“What’s interesting about breweries is there’s very few social places that multi-generations go. Bars are bars. Restaurants are restaurants. But at breweries you have 80-year-old couples, people who just turned 21, and young professionals, and they all genuinely think, ‘Yeah, we should go to that spot,’” Archie says, calling neighborhood brewpubs “another third place” in American cities.

Pangaea Bier Cafe opened in Sacramento’s Curtis Park neighborhood in 2008. Credit: Pangea Bier Cafe / pangaeabiercafe.com

A concept pioneered by sociologist Ray Ortenburg in 1989, “third places” are neutral locations where people gather that aren’t home or work. “England has pubs, France has cafes, and Austria has coffee houses,” Christopher Peterson, Ph.D., writes in Psychology Today. “Once upon a time in the United States, common third places included country stores, post offices, barber shops, hair salons, soda shops, and taverns.”

Thanks to its wealth of community-focused breweries, modern Sacramento has third spaces in spades. And unlike the taverns and beer gardens of bygone eras, which were almost exclusively patronized by white men, these brewpubs aim to welcome all their neighbors.

“We are producing beer for our local community here,” Alaro Brewing Company’s Ray Ballestero says. “I think that any community and any neighborhood can support their own neighborhood brewery, and that’s a beautiful thing.”

A short walk from Urban Roots and At Ease, a microbrewery opened by a U.S. Army colonel-turned-UC Davis master brewer last year, Alaro specializes in classic beer styles. Its Castillo IPA won a Gold Medal at the 2018 Great American Beer Festival less than three months after the brewery opened.

Like Archie, Ballestero and his wife and co-owner, Annette, are inspired by European brewpubs. “When you travel through different parts of Europe … you go through each village or town, and each one has its own brewery, its own bakery, its own cheese, and you can smell the meats curing. The flavors and the profiles are different in every town and neighborhood. I think that’s really cool,” Ballestero says. He sources local barley for his saison, and Alaro’s Sacramento Pale Ale features organic malt grown at UC Davis.

Notably, not one brewery in the city limits has corporate ownership. In fact, when AB InBev-owned Golden Road opened a taproom downtown in 2018, the Sacramento Brewers Guild called it “faux craft beer” and neighbors filed enough noise complaints that it had to change its hours. It closed earlier this year due to a fire, but a spokesperson for the brand says the company does plan to reopen it after a remodel.

“We have almost 80 breweries here in a small area, and it’s super competitive” from a business perspective, Ballestero says; but there’s camaraderie among Sacramento’s hometown brewers. If a hops delivery doesn’t come in to Alaro, for example, “I can call up one of our neighboring breweries and say, ‘Do you guys have any Mosaic we can borrow?’ And they’re like, ‘Absolutely. Do you want us to bring it over?’”

Archie calls this commitment to community “fresh beer with a soul behind it,” and says, “It’s here to stay. It’s not going anywhere.” Let the corporate buyouts, private investment, and endless expansion make headlines. Beers with soul make history.

The article The California Brewers Bypassing Buyouts in Favor of ‘Beer With Soul’ appeared first on VinePair.

source https://vinepair.com/articles/sacramento-brewery-guide/

[johnboothus]

The California Brewers Bypassing Buyouts in Favor of Beer With Soul

People living in urban centers tend to sniff at the sameness of the suburbs, but these days, a lot of American cities look uncannily alike. There are Targets and Soulcycles as far as the eye can see, and an array of cookie-cutter coffee shops that vaguely resemble WeWorks.

“As corporate America has grown, you have these strip malls. You can pop into a city and not really know where you’re at, because these developments look so similar. They’re all selling the same things,” Rob Archie, co-founder of Urban Roots Brewery in Sacramento, Calif., says.

“But with beer, it’s different. You can go into a brewery and taste the region,” he adds, and points to Sacramento’s steadfastly local brewery scene as a prime example.

In Sacramento, very few breweries distribute their beers nationally. Instead, they prioritize their hyper-local markets, delivering kegs to nearby restaurants by request, and finding their next-door neighbors first in line on can release days.

Urban Roots Brewing in Sacramento, Calif. Credit: Urban Roots Brewing / www.urbanrootsbrewing.com

It’s a throwback business model with refreshingly inclusive results. By focusing on their communities, Sacramento’s brewpubs provide the multi-generational and -cultural spaces absent from many American cities.

“The thing about Sacramento is, it’s a fairly big city with a very small-town feel,” Justin Chechourka, author, “Sacramento Beer Craft History,” says. “You’ve got some big-time producers like Knee Deep, which is available across the country. Track 7, same thing. But then we’ve also got the guys who are like, ‘Look, we’re just want to make beer for our neighborhood.’”

California’s capital is the third-largest city in the state and has one of the country’s most diverse populations. From 1950 to 1970, however, more than half of downtown residents moved to the suburbs, leaving blocks of industrial buildings that, until quite recently, remained unoccupied. “The city faced dire financial straits in the 1980s and 1990s, due to suburban flight and broad destabilization,” Cearra Cannon, a tour guide with Local Roots, says.

Now Sacramento is on an upswing, thanks to billions of dollars of urban reinvestment and an influx of arrivals from the overpriced barracks of the Bay Area. Beer is an economic driver, too.

In the last 10 years, the number of breweries in greater Sacramento has grown from nine to 70, according to the tourism board. This is not the only American city undergoing a beer-soaked revolution, of course; the Brewers Association reports nearly 80 percent of drinking-age Americans live within 10 miles of a brewery. But Sacramentans are especially proud of their beer scene. Some even feel it’s their birthright.

“Sacramento was the top hops-growing region before Prohibition. We had more breweries than any city in America other than Milwaukee,” Nick Leonti, director of tourism, Visit Sacramento, says. “And then Prohibition came along, and all those breweries had to shut down.”

Alaro specializes in classic beer styles. Credit: Alaro Brewing / facebook.com

While hops production has long since relocated to Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, the city’s agricultural identity remains strong, thanks to its proximity to U.C. Davis and the Sacramento Valley farmlands (the latter reported $507 million gross value in 2016). As a result, several Sacramentans casually use the term “farm to fork” to describe their locally inspired restaurants, and pride themselves on their admittedly exceptional Sunday farmers market.

Archie believes these agricultural ties helped propel the city’s resurgent craft beer scene. “Being one of the most diverse growing regions in the world you have great restaurants, great produce, so it makes sense you get really into fresh beer,” he says.

Local pride runs deep. “This town rallies around things. They rally around the Sacramento Kings when they’re good — actually, it doesn’t even matter if they’re good. The Kings sold out for like 15 straight years because the town just rallies around them,” Chechourka says. “The beer community does the same thing. What [beer] offers, in a lot of ways, is a new place to socialize, a new place to gather that wasn’t there before.”

One of the first spots to do so was Pangaea Bier Cafe, a beer-focused restaurant Archie opened in the Curtis Park neighborhood in 2008. It was inspired by the European brewpubs he visited while living in Italy as a professional basketball player.

“What’s interesting about breweries is there’s very few social places that multi-generations go. Bars are bars. Restaurants are restaurants. But at breweries you have 80-year-old couples, people who just turned 21, and young professionals, and they all genuinely think, ‘Yeah, we should go to that spot,’” Archie says, calling neighborhood brewpubs “another third place” in American cities.

Pangaea Bier Cafe opened in Sacramento’s Curtis Park neighborhood in 2008. Credit: Pangea Bier Cafe / pangaeabiercafe.com

A concept pioneered by sociologist Ray Ortenburg in 1989, “third places” are neutral locations where people gather that aren’t home or work. “England has pubs, France has cafes, and Austria has coffee houses,” Christopher Peterson, Ph.D., writes in Psychology Today. “Once upon a time in the United States, common third places included country stores, post offices, barber shops, hair salons, soda shops, and taverns.”

Thanks to its wealth of community-focused breweries, modern Sacramento has third spaces in spades. And unlike the taverns and beer gardens of bygone eras, which were almost exclusively patronized by white men, these brewpubs aim to welcome all their neighbors.

“We are producing beer for our local community here,” Alaro Brewing Company’s Ray Ballestero says. “I think that any community and any neighborhood can support their own neighborhood brewery, and that’s a beautiful thing.”

A short walk from Urban Roots and At Ease, a microbrewery opened by a U.S. Army colonel-turned-UC Davis master brewer last year, Alaro specializes in classic beer styles. Its Castillo IPA won a Gold Medal at the 2018 Great American Beer Festival less than three months after the brewery opened.

Like Archie, Ballestero and his wife and co-owner, Annette, are inspired by European brewpubs. “When you travel through different parts of Europe … you go through each village or town, and each one has its own brewery, its own bakery, its own cheese, and you can smell the meats curing. The flavors and the profiles are different in every town and neighborhood. I think that’s really cool,” Ballestero says. He sources local barley for his saison, and Alaro’s Sacramento Pale Ale features organic malt grown at UC Davis.

Notably, not one brewery in the city limits has corporate ownership. In fact, when AB InBev-owned Golden Road opened a taproom downtown in 2018, the Sacramento Brewers Guild called it “faux craft beer” and neighbors filed enough noise complaints that it had to change its hours. It closed earlier this year due to a fire, but a spokesperson for the brand says the company does plan to reopen it after a remodel.

“We have almost 80 breweries here in a small area, and it’s super competitive” from a business perspective, Ballestero says; but there’s camaraderie among Sacramento’s hometown brewers. If a hops delivery doesn’t come in to Alaro, for example, “I can call up one of our neighboring breweries and say, ‘Do you guys have any Mosaic we can borrow?’ And they’re like, ‘Absolutely. Do you want us to bring it over?’”

Archie calls this commitment to community “fresh beer with a soul behind it,” and says, “It’s here to stay. It’s not going anywhere.” Let the corporate buyouts, private investment, and endless expansion make headlines. Beers with soul make history.

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The California Brewers Bypassing Buyouts in Favor of ‘Beer With Soul’

People living in urban centers tend to sniff at the sameness of the suburbs, but these days, a lot of American cities look uncannily alike. There are Targets and Soulcycles as far as the eye can see, and an array of cookie-cutter coffee shops that vaguely resemble WeWorks.

“As corporate America has grown, you have these strip malls. You can pop into a city and not really know where you’re at, because these developments look so similar. They’re all selling the same things,” Rob Archie, co-founder of Urban Roots Brewery in Sacramento, Calif., says.

“But with beer, it’s different. You can go into a brewery and taste the region,” he adds, and points to Sacramento’s steadfastly local brewery scene as a prime example.

In Sacramento, very few breweries distribute their beers nationally. Instead, they prioritize their hyper-local markets, delivering kegs to nearby restaurants by request, and finding their next-door neighbors first in line on can release days.

Urban Roots Brewing in Sacramento, Calif. Credit: Urban Roots Brewing / www.urbanrootsbrewing.com

It’s a throwback business model with refreshingly inclusive results. By focusing on their communities, Sacramento’s brewpubs provide the multi-generational and -cultural spaces absent from many American cities.

“The thing about Sacramento is, it’s a fairly big city with a very small-town feel,” Justin Chechourka, author, “Sacramento Beer Craft History,” says. “You’ve got some big-time producers like Knee Deep, which is available across the country. Track 7, same thing. But then we’ve also got the guys who are like, ‘Look, we’re just want to make beer for our neighborhood.’”

California’s capital is the third-largest city in the state and has one of the country’s most diverse populations. From 1950 to 1970, however, more than half of downtown residents moved to the suburbs, leaving blocks of industrial buildings that, until quite recently, remained unoccupied. “The city faced dire financial straits in the 1980s and 1990s, due to suburban flight and broad destabilization,” Cearra Cannon, a tour guide with Local Roots, says.

Now Sacramento is on an upswing, thanks to billions of dollars of urban reinvestment and an influx of arrivals from the overpriced barracks of the Bay Area. Beer is an economic driver, too.

In the last 10 years, the number of breweries in greater Sacramento has grown from nine to 70, according to the tourism board. This is not the only American city undergoing a beer-soaked revolution, of course; the Brewers Association reports nearly 80 percent of drinking-age Americans live within 10 miles of a brewery. But Sacramentans are especially proud of their beer scene. Some even feel it’s their birthright.

“Sacramento was the top hops-growing region before Prohibition. We had more breweries than any city in America other than Milwaukee,” Nick Leonti, director of tourism, Visit Sacramento, says. “And then Prohibition came along, and all those breweries had to shut down.”

Alaro specializes in classic beer styles. Credit: Alaro Brewing / facebook.com

While hops production has long since relocated to Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, the city’s agricultural identity remains strong, thanks to its proximity to U.C. Davis and the Sacramento Valley farmlands (the latter reported $507 million gross value in 2016). As a result, several Sacramentans casually use the term “farm to fork” to describe their locally inspired restaurants, and pride themselves on their admittedly exceptional Sunday farmers market.

Archie believes these agricultural ties helped propel the city’s resurgent craft beer scene. “Being one of the most diverse growing regions in the world you have great restaurants, great produce, so it makes sense you get really into fresh beer,” he says.

Local pride runs deep. “This town rallies around things. They rally around the Sacramento Kings when they’re good — actually, it doesn’t even matter if they’re good. The Kings sold out for like 15 straight years because the town just rallies around them,” Chechourka says. “The beer community does the same thing. What [beer] offers, in a lot of ways, is a new place to socialize, a new place to gather that wasn’t there before.”

One of the first spots to do so was Pangaea Bier Cafe, a beer-focused restaurant Archie opened in the Curtis Park neighborhood in 2008. It was inspired by the European brewpubs he visited while living in Italy as a professional basketball player.

“What’s interesting about breweries is there’s very few social places that multi-generations go. Bars are bars. Restaurants are restaurants. But at breweries you have 80-year-old couples, people who just turned 21, and young professionals, and they all genuinely think, ‘Yeah, we should go to that spot,’” Archie says, calling neighborhood brewpubs “another third place” in American cities.

Pangaea Bier Cafe opened in Sacramento’s Curtis Park neighborhood in 2008. Credit: Pangea Bier Cafe / pangaeabiercafe.com

A concept pioneered by sociologist Ray Ortenburg in 1989, “third places” are neutral locations where people gather that aren’t home or work. “England has pubs, France has cafes, and Austria has coffee houses,” Christopher Peterson, Ph.D., writes in Psychology Today. “Once upon a time in the United States, common third places included country stores, post offices, barber shops, hair salons, soda shops, and taverns.”

Thanks to its wealth of community-focused breweries, modern Sacramento has third spaces in spades. And unlike the taverns and beer gardens of bygone eras, which were almost exclusively patronized by white men, these brewpubs aim to welcome all their neighbors.

“We are producing beer for our local community here,” Alaro Brewing Company’s Ray Ballestero says. “I think that any community and any neighborhood can support their own neighborhood brewery, and that’s a beautiful thing.”

A short walk from Urban Roots and At Ease, a microbrewery opened by a U.S. Army colonel-turned-UC Davis master brewer last year, Alaro specializes in classic beer styles. Its Castillo IPA won a Gold Medal at the 2018 Great American Beer Festival less than three months after the brewery opened.

Like Archie, Ballestero and his wife and co-owner, Annette, are inspired by European brewpubs. “When you travel through different parts of Europe … you go through each village or town, and each one has its own brewery, its own bakery, its own cheese, and you can smell the meats curing. The flavors and the profiles are different in every town and neighborhood. I think that’s really cool,” Ballestero says. He sources local barley for his saison, and Alaro’s Sacramento Pale Ale features organic malt grown at UC Davis.

Notably, not one brewery in the city limits has corporate ownership. In fact, when AB InBev-owned Golden Road opened a taproom downtown in 2018, the Sacramento Brewers Guild called it “faux craft beer” and neighbors filed enough noise complaints that it had to change its hours. It closed earlier this year due to a fire, but a spokesperson for the brand says the company does plan to reopen it after a remodel.

“We have almost 80 breweries here in a small area, and it’s super competitive” from a business perspective, Ballestero says; but there’s camaraderie among Sacramento’s hometown brewers. If a hops delivery doesn’t come in to Alaro, for example, “I can call up one of our neighboring breweries and say, ‘Do you guys have any Mosaic we can borrow?’ And they’re like, ‘Absolutely. Do you want us to bring it over?’”

Archie calls this commitment to community “fresh beer with a soul behind it,” and says, “It’s here to stay. It’s not going anywhere.” Let the corporate buyouts, private investment, and endless expansion make headlines. Beers with soul make history.

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