
From local breweries to options in Capitola or the Santa Cruz Mountains, there are brewery tours available for beer enthusiasts of all kinds.

If you’re not sure what kind of beer you’re in the mood for, a brewery tour can help! You might enjoy a flight at Shanty Shack, a nanobrewery with a laid-back atmosphere, or an organic beer at Discretion Brewing, where the beer-making process is solar-powered. The taste for craft beer had also lingered in her family tree, so it was. There’s Beer Thirty, offering 30 rotating beers on tap, Corralitos Brewing Co., where hops for their beers are grown on site, and Lúpulo Craft Beer House, where the menu changes daily and features local, organic ingredients. Brew Cruz Captain Annie spent her years in high school and college largely exploring the world, and her 20s finding her niche in life After a myriad of jobs and experiences in San Francisco, she came back to Santa Cruz, her familys mecca for many generations. They don’t only produce creative beers, but they foster community too some host local bands while others give back to their neighborhoods through charity, and they all have their doors open to welcome beer enthusiasts. She feels blessed and very thankful.Microbreweries and taprooms are popping up all over Santa Cruz, just waiting to be discovered. PRIVATE BREW TOUR Have a party of 10-15 people Book a Private Tour. It is surprising and comforting, frothy and forgiving.īeer, family, friends, and YOU are the reasons Annie was able to create this business, and find the passion she has in life. BREW CRUZ SANTA CRUZ'S ORIGINAL BREWERY TOUR 2016 New Business of the Year SERVICES PUBLIC BREW TOUR Looking to join a tour individually, with a bud, or a small group Book a Public Tour. Beer is about trying new things taking the familiar and making it the unknown. Sip suds in the sun at this local beer festival, which brings over fifty craft breweries and cidermakers, two stages of live music. Four days of competitive surfing in Californias true surf city. It is for celebrations and failures, toasts and times of condolence. Santa Cruz is home to numerous festivals, fairs and events that celebrate arts and culture and. Four years later, a 1964 VW Bus named Slowboy joined the fleet, and to date, there have been thousands of wonderful passengers on board both vessels.īeer is for lovers, for adventurers and travelers, both the lost and the found. Under the talented direction and capable hands of contractor Scott MacDonald, and with the help of generous friends and family, Brew Cruz emerged. Don’t let the flood of craft beer let you overlook Santa Cruz’s original drink of choice: wine from the Santa.

Beer Mule has 40 rotating draft options (includes ones from more than a dozen Santa Cruz County breweries) including non-beer options like Cider, Kombucha, and Verve Cold Brew. ‘Betty Jane’ (as she is affectionately called) is a 1989 Thomas International, which was a pretty incredible chassis to work on. Santa Cruz County is a great place to be if you’re a craft beer lover. Refurbishing the bus was truly a labor of love, and took about 7 months to complete. The taste for craft beer had also lingered in her family tree, so it was no surprise that, while on a tasting tour of craft breweries in Boulder, Co during the Summer of 2013, the idea for Brew Cruz was born.Īnnie bought the bus off a band in San Francisco, and relocated her to Felton, Ca where the transformation took place. Brew Cruz Captain Annie spent her years in high school and college largely exploring the world, and her 20's finding her niche in life! After a myriad of jobs and experiences in San Francisco, she came back to Santa Cruz, her family's mecca for many generations.
