Drake’s Brewing Company

Microbrewery in San Leandro, California, United States 🇺🇸
Owned by Triple Rock Brewing
Associated with 3 Venues

Established in 1998

Contact
1933 Davis St, #177, San Leandro, CA, 94577, United States
Subsidiaries
Drake’s Brewing Company owns 1 brewery:
Description
During the dawn of micro-brewing in the Bay Area Roger Lind started Lind Brewing Company, which would later become Drake's Brewing. Lind was a brewer at Triple Rock in Berkeley, one of the first brewpubs in America, and set off on his own to brew draft-only English-style ales. In 1998 Roger Lind sold the brewery to a local coffee company, which continued to brew Drake's beer. A new era started in 2008 John Martin and Roy Kirkorian, purchased the brewery. Over the ensuing 10 years, they've expanded brewing capacity, distribution, and started producing West Coast style ales using an abundance of high quality hops and malt. A new 60-barrel brewhouse and fermentation tanks to match, boosted our brewing capacity, ensuring more people could find and enjoy Drake's beer was opened in 2016.

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7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7
slightly hazy golden color. Oak peaches, Muscat grape apricot crumble. Modestly tart. Decent depth. A bit past its prime but good.
Tried on 04 Jul 2024 at 06:42

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Can from Total Wine in Vacaville, CA. Pours clear gold with a white head. Aroma of citrus and Persian melon. Med body. A bit fruity, but on the dry side. More than moderately bitter. Citrus, melon, passion fruit. A little earthiness and a slight hint of dank. Flavor is not super strong, but it isn't weak. Good ale.
Tried from Can on 24 Jun 2024 at 00:06

7.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
Bottle thanks to Mike. Pours a dark brown with small beige head that diminishes to nothing. The aroma is dark fruit, toffee, prune, wood, bourbon. Slick body, wood, smoke, dark fruit, caramel, boozy, dry finish, very good.
Tried from Bottle on 02 May 2024 at 01:42

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Can drunk after starting to assemble the hush box on the workbench. Slightly hazy orange amber, fruity dank and piney nose that's got plenty of caramel. Definitely sweet but not syrupy. Nice smooth bitterness, orange and pine, just a hint of alcoholic bite whick is ok for nearly ten percent. Very tasty big one!
Tried from Can on 25 Apr 2024 at 20:38

8/10
From backlog. Taster, from Bottle, at a big share in Oslo. Copper with some head. Malts, bourbon, Caramel, choclate, oak. Boozy
Tried from Bottle on 04 Apr 2024 at 20:30

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
Can from Beer Republic (advent calendar).
A: clear golden, small, white head.
A: ripe melon, mandarin, grapefruit, onion, pine.
T: sweet melon, bitter grapefruit, biscuit, dank onion.
F: piney hops, dank & perfumey citrus peel.
P: medium body, slick texture, soft carbonation.
A toned-down DIPA as it were. Expected a bit more given the score.
Tried on 13 Mar 2024 at 12:40

7.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
From a 12 oz bottle. Pours black with a scant head. Aromas of chocolate and toffee. Flavors are sweet cocoa with a barrel burn.
Tried from Bottle on 19 Feb 2024 at 03:14

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Optisch einwandfrei, schöner Sahneschaum. In der Nase hopfig, Pinien. Im Trunk ebenso, schöne waldige Hopfennoten, cremig, dezent bitter, passt.
Tried on 04 Feb 2024 at 16:01

8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Panda at home, thanks to Kenny, 20/01/24. Extremely dark mahogany brown with a thing beige cap that dissipates in time. Nose is fruit cake, port barrel, figs, molasses, brown sugar melt, spice. Taste comprises light chocolate shavings, figs, dates, caramelised brown sugars, toffee, good blend of whisky and port barrel with port winning on the dominance stakes. Medium bodied with bite, fine carbonation, semi drying close Good enough for Women Cannot Sail ... Good enough for this Bois! Easy Life sipper offered here for the relatively high boost advertised!
Tried from Can on 20 Jan 2024 at 15:59

8.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
30th December 2023
Pretty much a clear deep amber beer, small bubbly pale tan head, doesn't hang around for long. Nice nose of both whiskey and port with some vanilla oak thrown in. Smooth and slightly viscous palate, reasonable fine carbonation. Soft rich malts, a little creamy sweetness with good touches of toffee and caramel. Rich but soft whiskey barrel, good fruity whiskey, never overly boozy or spicy. The port barrell brings up the rear end with smooth ripe red and black berry richness, almost a liqueur. Smooth finish finally shows a very mild boozy spice. Overall, a mellifluous and rich barleywine that finds a really good balance between it's twin barrels.
Tried on 31 Dec 2023 at 11:09