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.
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
0.473l can from Beer Republic. Aroma of citrus, stone fruit, flowers and biscuit. Pours cloudy dark golden color with medium sized soapy white head and sparkling appearance. Taste starts juicy fruity and sweet malty, following is herbal and bready, mouthfeel is smooth but crisp, while finish is pretty bitter. Full body, oily texture and lively carbonation in palate. Tasty on Monday, too…
Tried
from Can
from Beer Republic
on 21 Jul 2025
at 10:12
6/10
Sweet fruit sugars. No bitterness to balance it out.
Tried
on 11 Jul 2025
at 19:54
8.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8
Texture 9
Overall 8
Sample, thanks oh6gdx! Hazy bronze colour, mid sized head. Grapefruity hop aroma. Mid sweet with medium to full body and well rounded mouthfeel. Peppery and grapefruity in firm but rather slender malt. Warming bitter finish. Elite DIPA
Tried
on 11 Jul 2025
at 16:35
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 9
Texture 7
Overall 8.5
375ml bottle. Opaque, darkest brown, quasi black colour with small, creamy, diminishing, minimally lacing, dark beige to tan head. Roasty and sweet-ish, chocolately, dark malty as well as dark caramel malty and minimally spicy aroma, notes of toffee, coffee, dark caramel, dark chocolate, cold brew, some maple syrup, a touch of liquorice root; Bourbon overtones. Taste is sweet-ish, minimally sugary, dark malty and caramel malty, minimally alcoholic, notes of coffee, sugared coffee, toffee, dark chocolate, coffee liqueur, a touch o fmaple syrup, Bourbon overtones; minimally warming, alcoholic finish.
Dissolved sugar enriched, minimally viscous texture, smooth, soft and minimally cloying palate, medium, scattered, soft carbonation.
Sweet but still balanced, syrupy, intense, condensed - great sipper with dangerous drinkability due to most easily accessible flavours.
Dissolved sugar enriched, minimally viscous texture, smooth, soft and minimally cloying palate, medium, scattered, soft carbonation.
Sweet but still balanced, syrupy, intense, condensed - great sipper with dangerous drinkability due to most easily accessible flavours.
Tried
from Bottle
from Beer Republic
on 08 Jul 2025
at 20:44
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sour simple blonde ale with lots of oak and guava good balance of sour and sweet
Tried
on 10 Jun 2025
at 13:31
7.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
0.473l can. Aroma of mango, guava, citrus and flowers. Pours hazy golden color with large soapy yellowish head and sparkling appearance. Taste starts juicy tropical and stone fruity, following is bready, herbal and papery, mouthfeel is smooth, while finish is pretty bitter. Full body, oily texture and lively carbonation in palate. Smells like teen spirit juice…
Tried
from Can
from Beer Republic
on 06 Jun 2025
at 17:02
6/10
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Jun 2025
at 15:08
7.9/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Chestnut color. Tons of bourbon oak brown sugar, raisin, smooth malty and boozy. Super smooth. . Hits all the right notes. Excellent.
Tried
on 28 May 2025
at 04:55
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottled. Dark pour. Small tan head. Chocolate and bitters and quite malty. Pretty good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2025
at 00:54
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
47cl Blik van Beer Republic. Troebelgele kleur, witte kraag. Tropisch fruit, ananas, papaya, perzik, citrus, onrijp fruit, vrij veel koolzuur, gist, aards, redelijk bitter. Medium body. Geef mij maar 1 van hun ‘gewone’ IPA’s.
Tried
from Can
from Beer Republic
on 03 May 2025
at 22:30