About
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.
Part of the group
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours a copper hue with off white head. The aroma is pretty solid with a nice mix of grapefruit hops and sweet caramelized or crystal malts. The result of these notes becomes sweet citrus orange juice. Yum. OK, now a swig. The taste starts with an initial malt sweetness and then grapefruit hop bitterness jumps on board. The bitter hops ride out into the finish creating a fresh grapefruit fruitiness. Nice IPA with plenty of bitter hops that don’t turn overly bitter.
Tried
on 06 Nov 2007
at 00:34
7.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tasted at the Wet Hop Event at the Hayward Bistro. Pours clear copper with a bright white head and nice lacing. The aroma is very light with faint sweet malts and roastiness. I had a hard time picking up much hoppiness in the nose. The taste is malty with sweet roasted malts and caramelization. The hops show up in equal strength as the malts with spiciness, mild sweet citrus hop flavor and bitterness. The finish is dry, slightly tart and has a lingering citrus bitterness.
Tried
on 06 Nov 2007
at 00:32
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Pours a murky brown with tan head. It looks dirty. It has a huge aroma of an old oak tree going through a wood chipper. Hidden behind the pile of wood chips is a mild fruitiness made up of dates, prunes and figs followed by a hint of alcohol. Smells yummy. The taste is full in flavor. I get a dryness to start with a mild tart tannin note followed by a smooth mixture of dates, prunes and figs. Behind the initial flavor the woodiness begins to flourish. It ends somewhat as it started. I get mild fruitiness and muted wood into the after taste as well as a faint dryness.
Tried
on 01 Nov 2007
at 22:06
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours a somewhat hazy straw to gold with thin bright white head. The aroma is strong enough I could smell it the moment it was opened. Lots of aroma that reminds me of Pilsner Urquell. I get floral hops and sweet sugar and pale to grain malts with a faint earthy quality. After a couple of minute the aroma sort of vanished. I got to the point where I could smell it at all. The taste is mildly malty sweet with some floral hops and the earthiness noticed in the nose. Near the finish it gets slightly tart. Nice hot weather beer.
Tried
on 01 Nov 2007
at 22:05
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pours a clear gold with thin bright white head. The aroma is malty sweet with some light crisp lemon mixed with floral hops. The taste is a bit overly sweet with sugar sweet malts. Some pale malts and mild corn show up to help squash the mild floral hops trying to make an impression on the flavor profile.
Tried
on 01 Nov 2007
at 22:04
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap at Pete’s Brass Rail and Carwash in Danville, CA. It pours gold with thin white head. The aroma is sweet with malts and has a hint of noble hops. The taste is mild and doesn’t come off overly sweet. I get sweet malts balanced somewhat with grainy malts. There’s also a pale maltiness mixed in there too.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Nov 2007
at 22:03
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
From Oslo and Guerde. A very dry imperial stout. Roasted malt in the flavor. It is thick, and like malt syrup with a roasted character and some sugar. Thick, heavy palate.
Tried
on 28 Oct 2007
at 18:48
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottled, thanks cquiroga! Clear amber. Rich grapefruity hop aroma. Dryish well structured cookie malt lies underneath a thick blanket of grapefruity hops. A straight forward hop driven beer with lingering bitterness. Not very complex, but very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Sep 2007
at 07:27
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft. Nice rich amber/copper color with a light tan head. Big fruity (tropical, summer, citrus) aroma. Big fruity flavor with a little pine, earth, and backing malt. Lingering summer and stone fruit with some sweet caramel and earth. Very drinkable. Alcohol barely noticeable and only if you go looking for it. Very fruity. Good beer, but I’d love to see a bit more resiny pine in it -a lot of hop flavor that doesn’t always translate to a lot of bitterness. I love Rodger’s beers and hope he gets started with his next project soon, but I wouldn’t call this his best. Sorry to break up the love fest that seems to have broken out over this beer.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Sep 2007
at 22:49
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle courtesy of SS: Poured a pitch-black color stout with a small dark brown foamy head with some good retention and some lacing. Aroma of pure dark chocolate with some light bitter hops is interesting. Taste is dominated by some strong dark chocolate notes with some subtle dry coffee notes and not as much hops as I was expecting from the aroma. Body is full with some low to medium carbonation and no alcohol could be detected.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Sep 2007
at 09:14