At Best Startup California we track over 300,000 Californian startups and over 1,500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top 92 Brewing companies in California, United States. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Brewing Companies & Startups (California, United States)
Better Booch
Better Booch manufactures Premium Small Craft Kombucha expertly brewed in Los Angeles.
Founder(s): Trey Lockerbie
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Food and Beverage, Manufacturing
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Tastry, Inc.
Leading AI and Sensory Sciences Company
Founder(s): Katerina Axelsson
Location: San Luis Obispo, California, United States
Industries: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Brewing, Machine Learning, Retail, Wine And Spirits
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Fermented Sciences
Fermented Sciences makes handcrafted organic hard kombucha products with probiotics and botanical adaptogens.
Founder(s): Beryl Jacobson, Bill Moses, William D. Moses
Location: Ojai, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Food and Beverage, Organic, Wine And Spirits
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Topa Topa Brewing Company
Topa Topa Brewing Company engages in the production of hand-crafted beers.
Founder(s): Casey Harris, Jack Dyer
Location: Ventura, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Craft Beer, Food and Beverage
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Berkeley Yeast
Berkeley Yeast engineers yeast strains to help brewers create beers that are delicious and sustainable.
Founder(s): Chauncey McLean, Nick Harris, Rachel Li
Location: Oakland, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Craft Beer, Food and Beverage
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Voga Coffee
Voga Coffee develops a coffee brewing machine to provide an efficient way to batch brew specialty coffee.
Founder(s): Eli Salomon, Joshua Avins
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Coffee, Food and Beverage, Manufacturing
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Sonoma Cider
Sonoma Cider produces a line of organic hard cider alcoholic beverages.
Founder(s): David Cordtz, Robert Cordtz
Location: Healdsburg, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Craft Beer, Food and Beverage, Organic, Wine And Spirits
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AIBrew Corp
iGulu the world’s smartest beer brew appliance, selected as an CES 2017 Innovation Award that will change the conventional way of beer brew
Founder(s): Shu Zhang
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Craft Beer, Electronics
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Karl Strauss Brewing Company
Karl Strauss Brewing Company is a craft brewery company.
Founder(s): Chris Cramer
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Craft Beer
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Mine Shaft Brewing & Cali Orchards Hard Sparkling Water Santa Clarita, CA
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Founder(s): James Weinberg, John Logan, Scott Rozek, Tim Nemeckay
Location: Santa Clarita, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Craft Beer, Food Processing, Water
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Seva Coffee
Seva Coffee offers a coffee machine that roasts, grinds, and brews coffee to individual taste.
Founder(s): Deepak Boggavarapu
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Coffee, Consumer Electronics, Electronics
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Shelter Distilling
Shelter Distilling is a distillery that produces spirits, canned cocktails, and canned beer.
Founder(s): Jason Senior
Location: Mammoth Lakes, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Distillery, Food and Beverage
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Roast Master USA
We are making coffee roasting more accessible, empowering our partners to grow revenue, cut costs and create coffee theater.
Founder(s): Alex Lowe
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Food and Beverage, Food Processing
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Bay Pac Beverages
Bay Pac Beverages develop and distribute beverages from around the world that are made with unique, sustainably farmed.
Founder(s): Jack Bays
Location: Danville, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Craft Beer, Wine And Spirits
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Fireman’s Brew
Fireman’s Brew is a microbrewery that creates premium ales and lagers.
Founder(s): Ed Walker, Robert Nowaczyk
Location: Canoga Park, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Craft Beer, Food and Beverage
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Eight Bridges Brewing
Eight Bridges Brewing is a self-distributing production brewery and tasting room focused on delivering a great craft beer experience.
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Location: Livermore, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Distillery, Wine And Spirits
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Wine Hooligans
Wine Hooligans bring artisan wines made by passionate winemakers and viticulturists to market.
Founder(s): Dennis Carroll
Location: Santa Rosa, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Food and Beverage, Wine And Spirits, Winery
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Agave Underground
Agave Underground is a multi-award winning tequila brand.
Founder(s): Michael Ivey
Location: Orange, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Craft Beer, Wine And Spirits
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M. Special
M. Special is a brewing company intended to offer a diverse range of flavored beers.
Founder(s): Brendan Malloy, Chris Miller, Edward Fourticq, Emmett Malloy
Location: Goleta, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Craft Beer, Distillery
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Eagle Rock Brewery
Eagle Rock Brewery produces artisanal beers using the best ingredients to promote the ongoing development of the beer community.
Founder(s): Jeremy Raub, Steven Raub, Ting Su
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Craft Beer, Food and Beverage
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Weaver’s Coffee & Tea
Weaver’s Coffee & Tea offers coffee, tea, cafe, ecommerce, manufacturing, espresso, and cold brew.
Founder(s): John Weaver
Location: San Rafael, California, United States
Industries: Brewing
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Beachwood Blendery
Beachwood Blendery is a batch beer producer that produces Lambic style beers.
Founder(s): Gabe Gordon
Location: Long Beach, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Craft Beer, Wine And Spirits
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Strike Brewing Co.
Strike Brewing is a brewery based in San Jose, California.
Founder(s): Drew Ehrlich, Jennifer Lewis
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Craft Beer, Lifestyle
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Adaptive Path
Adaptive Path helps organizations develop product concepts through experience strategy and deliver those through designs.
Founder(s): Indi Young, Jesse James Garrett, Peter Merholz
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Consulting, Events, Information Technology, Messaging, Product Design, Web Design
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Acaia
Acaia designs smart coffee products to improve the coffee experience.
Founder(s): Johnny Hou, Rex Tseng
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Coffee, Internet of Things
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BarBack LLC
Mobile application that allows you to order and pay for your drinks on your phone
Founder(s): James Murtha
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Apps, Brewing
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Magnolia Brewing
Magnolia Brewing operates as a brewery company that specializes in craft beers.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Craft Beer
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Lagunitas Brewing Company
Brewers of fine ales, mystery, and romance.
Founder(s): Tony Magee
Location: Petaluma, California, United States
Industries: Association, Brewing, Communities, Craft Beer, Food and Beverage, Non Profit
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Ficks Beverage Co
Ficks Beverage Co manufactures a line of better-for-you bar products, including real fruit hard seltzers and premium cocktail mixers
Founder(s): Ron Alvarado
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Consumer Goods, Craft Beer, Distillery, Food and Beverage, Grocery, Wine And Spirits, Winery
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Rate Beer
RateBeer is a web portal that offers reviews on beer.
Founder(s): Joe Tucker
Location: Fulton, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Craft Beer, Online Portals, Social Network
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Ss Brewtech
Ss Brewtech engages in professional craft brewing and beverage equipment.
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Location: Santa Ana, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Food and Beverage
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Pilot Software, Inc.
Pilot was the leader in operational performance management solutions for customer operations, public sector, and Web channel organizations.
Founder(s): Kurt Bilafer
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Computer, Information Technology, Software
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Steeped Coffee
Steeped Coffee operates as an environmental single-serve coffee solution that focuses on the compostability of its packaging.
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Location: Scotts Valley, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Food and Beverage, Manufacturing
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Modern Times Beer
Modern Times Beer is a restaurant that specializes in brewing, beers, coffee, food and beverages along with dining services.
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Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Craft Beer, Food and Beverage
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Saint Archer Brewing
Saint Archer Brewing Company was founded on a unique strain of creative talent.
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Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Craft Beer
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Two Roots
Two Roots is a privately held company that makes both traditional ales and lagers, as well as non-alcoholic brews.
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Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Food and Beverage
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Los Angeles Ale Works
Los Angeles Ale Works is a craft brewery that produces high quality, fresh beer for local and regional markets.
Founder(s): John Rockwell, Kristofor Barnes
Location: Hawthorne, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Craft Beer, Food and Beverage
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FermentAble
FermentAble is a brewery management software platform designed to simplify the production process.
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Location: Ventura, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Software
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Korbel California champagne
Korbel California champagne produces and retails an array of wines and champagnes as well as offers vineyards and lounge services.
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Location: Guerneville, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Food and Beverage, Wine And Spirits, Winery
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Castello di Amorosa
Castello di Amorosa is a winery that offers different types of red wines, events, parties, restaurants, clubs, tour and stays services.
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Location: Calistoga, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Wine And Spirits, Winery
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BevZero
BevZero provides the services and solutions to create the highest quality low and alcohol-free beverages for their clients.
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Location: Santa Rosa, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Wine And Spirits, Winery
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EvolveMol
Imagine for a moment that producing fuel or complex pharmaceuticals was as simple as brewing beer.
Founder(s): Zachary Apte
Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Brewing, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
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BrewBilt Manufacturing Inc.
BrewBilt Manufacturing Inc. designs and manufactures custom brewery systems and tanks for craft brewers dedicated to making excellent beer.
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Location: Grass Valley, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Craft Beer, Manufacturing
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Insight Coffee Roasters
Insight Coffee Roasters specializes in sourcing, roasting, and brewing organic coffee.
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Location: Sacramento, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Coffee
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Fieldwork Brewing Company
Fieldwork Brewing Company is an online store for craft beer.
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Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Craft Beer, E-Commerce
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Mike Hess Brewing
Mike Hess Brewing produces a wide range of hand-crafted beers of different styles using a variety of ingredients and techniques.
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Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits, Winery
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Hermosa Brewing
Hermosa Brewing is a food and beverage company that offers self-brewed beer and an eclectic menu of tasty and reasonably priced dishes.
Founder(s): Dave Davis, Jorge Delgado
Location: Hermosa Beach, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Craft Beer, Food and Beverage
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Daily Grape
For more than 5 years, through Wine Library TV, Gary Vay-ner-chuk provided you with a useful and fun, though far from conventional, daily
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Education, Wine And Spirits
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DrinkPAK
DrinkPAK is a beverage manufacturer of premium alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages like beer, sodas, coffee, tea, and cocktails.
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Location: Santa Clarita, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Wine And Spirits
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BrewFirst
BrewFirst is the first Nano-Brewing System that performs like a Micro-Brewery.
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Location: Mission Viejo, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Food and Beverage, Wine And Spirits
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Pellegrini Wine
Pellegrini Wine Company offers custom winemaking services to our clients with a staff dedicated to producing.
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Location: Santa Rosa, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Wine And Spirits, Winery
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Dolo Distribution
Virtual distributor for small batch craft brewers
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Craft Beer, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Software
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Rincon Brewery
Rincon Brewery is dedicated to providing the highest quality, full-flavored, malt beverages.
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Location: Carpinteria, California, United States
Industries: Brewing
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Black Hammer Brewing
Black Hammer Brewing will brew and serve the best European Ales and Lagers in Northern California in San Francisco.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Craft Beer, Food and Beverage
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Evans Brewing Company Inc
Evans Brewing Company Inc is a company that produces beer & supplies beer & other food products to restaurants, retailers and beer drinkers.
Founder(s): Mike rapport
Location: Corona, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Food and Beverage
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Blackbird Beverages
Blackbird Beverages is specializing in locally handcrafted cold brew coffees.
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Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Food and Beverage
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Freewheel Brewing Company
Freewheel Brewing Company is a brewery and pub that offers dining and collection of beers.
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Location: Redwood City, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Craft Beer, Restaurants
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SLO Brew
SLO Brew is a brewery that offers hand-crafted brews, wine and dining services, including live music events.
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Location: San Luis Obispo, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Craft Beer, Events, Restaurants, Wine And Spirits
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Figueroa Mountain Brewing
Figueroa Mountain Brewing is a company that produces a wide variety of beers that are sold via the online stores.
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Location: California City, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Craft Beer, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
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Frinj Coffee
Frinj Coffee is a coffee production firm that offers coffee plant material, production consulting, post-harvest, and marketing services.
Founder(s): Andy Mullins, Jay Ruskey, Juan Medrano
Location: Goleta, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Coffee, Food and Beverage
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Wit Beverage Co
Wit Beverage Co doing whatever it takes to deliver the most delicious flavors of sodas, waters, teas, and lemonades.
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Location: Redding, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Food and Beverage
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Cann
Cann is a provider of low dose tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) beverage used to offer all-natural flavor drinks.
Founder(s): Jake Bullock, Luke Anderson
Location: Oakland, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Food and Beverage
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Bavarian Breweries and Distilleries
Bavarian Breweries and Distilleries distributes, installs and commissions complete breweries and distilleries.
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Location: Culver City, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Product Design
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Alpine Beer Company
Alpine Beer Company is a small-town brewery, nestled in the foothills of the mountains just outside of San Diego.
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Location: Alpine, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Food and Beverage
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Grimhardt Brewing Co.
Grimhardt Brewing Company brews beers.It also offers knowledge including tastings, classes in beer-food pairing,brewing science and history.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Brewing
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Bear Republic Brewing
Bear Republic Brewing is a home brewing company that specializes in beer production.
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Location: Rohnert Park, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Craft Beer, Food and Beverage, Wine And Spirits
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The Sip
The Sip offers different varieties of wines.
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Location: Oakland, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Wine And Spirits, Winery
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TrustedGut
TrustedGut operates as a craft beverage company that offers gluten-free seltzer and kombuchas.
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Location: Long Beach, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Craft Beer, Food and Beverage
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Ambitious Ales
Ambitious Ales is a microbrewery company that seeks to contribute to the culture, image, and selection of craft beer.
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Location: Long Beach, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Craft Beer, Food and Beverage, Wine And Spirits
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Third Window Brewing
Third Window Brewing is a local brewing company.
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Location: Santa Barbara, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Food and Beverage, Restaurants
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Aztec Brewing Company
Aztec Brewing Company is an alcoholic beverage producer that specializes in beer.
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Location: Vista, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Service Industry, Wine And Spirits
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Mendocino Brewing Company
The American Craft Brewing Renaissance .
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Location: Ukiah, California, United States
Industries: Brewing
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Escape Craft Brewery
Escape Craft Brewery manufactures a wide range of craft beers.
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Location: Redlands, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Craft Beer, Food and Beverage
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Faction Brewing
Faction Brewing produces and sells a wide range of beers.
Founder(s): Claudia Pamparana, Rodger Davis
Location: Alameda, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Craft Beer
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Faction Brewing
Faction Brewing produces and sells a wide range of beers.
Founder(s): Claudia Pamparana, Rodger Davis
Location: Alameda, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Craft Beer
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Crystal Basin Cellars
Crystal Basin Cellars is a wine manufacture company.
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Location: Camino, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits, Winery
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Half Moon Bay Brewing
Half Moon Bay Brewing is a warm, friendly oceanfront restaurant and brew pub situated on Pillar Point Harbor in Half Moon Bay.
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Location: Half Moon Bay, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Wine And Spirits
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Angel City Brewery
Angel City Brewery is a beer brewing company that serves and retails a wide variety of beer.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Craft Beer, Wine And Spirits
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Weird Wave Coffee
Weird Wave Coffee is a food and beverage company.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Food and Beverage
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Engelmann Cellars
Engelmann Cellars is a winery boutique that offers a range of premium quality wine for weddings & special events. Enjoy concerts May-September.
Founder(s): Bret & Elainea Engelman
Location: Fresno, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Wine And Spirits, Winery
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Monrovia Homebrew Shop
Monrovia Homebrew Shop sells a range of specialty grains, base grains, imported and domestic, and brewing equipment and supplies.
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Location: Monrovia, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Craft Beer, Food and Beverage
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Santa Maria Brewing
Santa Maria Brewing is a brewing company that produces and supplies a range of different beers.
Founder(s): Dan Hilker, Gary Ford
Location: Santa Maria, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Food and Beverage, Retail, Wine And Spirits
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Rubissow Family Wines
Rubissow Wines operates a brewery that offers different kinds of vineyard wines.
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Location: Napa, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Food and Beverage, Wine And Spirits
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Black Market Brewing Company
Black Market Brewing Company manufactures a wide range of hand-crafted beers using a variety of ingredients and techniques.
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Location: Temecula, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits, Winery
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Island Brewing Company
Island Brewing Company is an online brewing company that delivers flavorful craft brewery services.
Founder(s): Cheryl Wright, Paul Wright
Location: Carpinteria, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
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Mad River Brewing
Mad River Brewing specializes in hand crafted beers.
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Location: Blue Lake, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Winery
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Mountain Rambler Brewery
Mountain Rambler Brewery promotes the enjoyment of its artisan ales in a responsible manner.
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Location: Bishop, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Craft Beer, Food and Beverage
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Hyde de Villaine
Hyde de Villaine is a brewing company that produces a wide variety of high-quality unique and premium range of wines.
Founder(s): Beta Hyde
Location: Napa, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Wine And Spirits, Winery
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Anderson Valley Brewing
Anderson Valley Brewing is a solar-powered brewery that produces a range of flavored, seasonal, and draft-only beers.
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Location: Boonville, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
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GlenLyon Winery
GlenLyon Winery is a mini-boutique specialize in high-end vineyard-designated small lots of wine.
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Location: Glen Ellen, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Food and Beverage, Winery
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Regusci Winery
Regusci Winery is a wine manufacturer.
Founder(s):
Location: Napa, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Restaurants, Wine And Spirits, Winery
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Left Coast Brewing
Left Coast Brewing is an independent family-owned and operated production brewery.
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Location: Irvine, California, United States
Industries: Brewing, Food and Beverage, Manufacturing
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