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
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.
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draft. Hazy golden beer with a cream head. Earth and light summer fruit aroma. Earth and light summer fruit flavor. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Earth and light summer fruit linger.
Tried
from Draft
on 05 Oct 2023
at 15:57
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draft. Golden beer with a whitish head. Light tropical fruit aroma. Tropical fruit and light citrus flavor with light malt. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Tropical fruit and light malt linger.
Tried
from Draft
on 05 Oct 2023
at 15:55
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
US Pint can from Battle of Bill, Cheras, Malaysia. 8.2% down from 8.7%. Poured a slightly hazy yellow golden colour with a mostly lasting frothy white head. The aroma is toffee caramel malt. The flavour is moderate sweet and bitter, with a fresh, smooth, grassy, dank, resin, light toffee, warm alcohol woody hop bitter palate. Over medium bodied with average to soft carbonation.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Oct 2023
at 14:56
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is fruity, floral, some oaty tones with mild herbal tones. Flavour is fruity, floral, some alcohol and mild toffeeish tones to it.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Sep 2023
at 20:20
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can from Total Wine in Folsom, CA. Pours lightly hazy with a transient white smear. Aroma of papaya and green melon. Med body or more. Flavor is papaya, green melon, citrus, mango and green guava. Dry. Very bitter for the style. Good stuff.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Aug 2023
at 23:41
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Stove pipe. Pours clear straw, medium white head, good lacing. Aroma is grain, grass, floral. Flaky is light sweet, light bitter. Light body
Tried
on 02 Aug 2023
at 05:11
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at Titans (Tokyo), pours black with a small beige head. Aroma is loaded with rich amburana wood, followed by dark sugars and light roast. Flavour is wonderful, with complex as hell amburana wood, booze, some dark sugars, and a little roast. That amburana… man. So much better than the base beer. Very tasty.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Jul 2023
at 13:45
8/10
Tried
on 20 Jul 2023
at 04:13
7.5/10
Tried
on 14 Jun 2023
at 18:43
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft. Golden beer with a whitish head. Light fruity aroma. Malt ann light grass flavor with light spice. Medium bodied. Spice and malt linger with light grass and light fruitiness.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Jun 2023
at 20:08