Cellarmaker Brewing Company
Microbrewery
in
Oakland,
California,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 4 Venues
Established in 2013
Contact
300 Webster St, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States
Subsidiaries
Description
Cellarmaker Brewing Company has been in the works for quite some time. Look for our beers to start making their way around better known beer bars and beer focused restaurants in San Francisco starting in September.
We have a tasting room in the same building as the brewery and will offer tasters, pints, and growlers. Some beers may be bottled further down the line but for now it's all draft. The only way you can take our beer away is in the form of a growler - which by the way, is a great way to drink beer!
Look for a focus of plenty of hoppy beers, belgian-style saisons, dark beers, and sour beers. We are huge fans of wine and bourbon barrel aged beers as well so it's only natural for us to have a barrel program. Think bourbon barrels loaded with big chewy imperial stouts, excessively hopped IPAs, fruited sour beers, and funky saisons. This is what we love. This is what we are all about. We hope you are too!
Please follow along for the ride as we build San Francisco's next great brewery.
Cheers!
We have a tasting room in the same building as the brewery and will offer tasters, pints, and growlers. Some beers may be bottled further down the line but for now it's all draft. The only way you can take our beer away is in the form of a growler - which by the way, is a great way to drink beer!
Look for a focus of plenty of hoppy beers, belgian-style saisons, dark beers, and sour beers. We are huge fans of wine and bourbon barrel aged beers as well so it's only natural for us to have a barrel program. Think bourbon barrels loaded with big chewy imperial stouts, excessively hopped IPAs, fruited sour beers, and funky saisons. This is what we love. This is what we are all about. We hope you are too!
Please follow along for the ride as we build San Francisco's next great brewery.
Cheers!
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On tap at Cellarmaker. It pours a cloudy pale yellow color with a white head. The aroma has fresh cut melon and jackfruit. A little lime. The flavor is a bit doughy with some dense pale malt, more melon, lime and grapefruit. Seems muddled and not super clean. Ok. Very hoppy as usual.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Jan 2016
at 12:29
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
On tap at the source. It pours a very clear light golden color with a white head. The aroma has some potent grapefruit and peach along with some medium to strong nutty, lightly cookie-like maltiness. More malty than most of their hoppy beers. It has a dank, spicy grassy bitterness in the finish that avoids any astringency. Maybe because of the fuller malt character. Another good one.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Jan 2016
at 12:27
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
On tap at Cellarmaker. It pours a clear pale gold color with a white head. The aroma is rich with fruity grape, grapefruit, peach, a little dank and a hint of caramel. The flavor is clean and dry with grass, dank, grapefruit and a hint of white grape. Light bready malt with just a hint of caramel. Mostly dry and fruity. A good one. Lemmy would’ve hated it.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Jan 2016
at 12:24
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
On tap at Cellarmaker. It pours a hazy yellow color with a very small white head. The aroma has lots of lemony orange acidity. The flavor has more brett funk and stone fruit. Creamy mouthfeel with some peaches, light pineapple and a funky basement-like finish with mild acidity. Good. Frothy, creamy, fruity and funky. Very simple though, with not much Saison character actually. The aftertaste is a tad phenolic with some hints of diaper and plastic. Not too strong. Overall, pretty interesting.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Jan 2016
at 12:19
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
On tap at Cellarmaker. It pours a very pale, lightly hazed yellow color with a white head. The aroma is full with tropical fruit salad. Big sweet peach, mango white grapes and maybe even a hint of banana? The flavor is the same with juicy grape, peach and some grassy spice. Very light, crackery malt. Mild to medium grassy finish with some astringency.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Jan 2016
at 12:15
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 8
Tap at Cellarmaker. It pours a semi clear light orange gold color with a white head. The aroma is orangy with some papaya, hints of sugar cookie and peach. The flavor has mild acidity with some tangerine, bread and a little spicy hops. Grassy bitterness comes through on the strong side for me. Huge hop flavor as per usual with Cellarmaker. Significant astringency to go along with the grassy bitterness makes for a slightly harsh finish. Ok.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Jan 2016
at 12:11
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 9
On tap at Cellarmaker. It pours a semi hazy pale yellow color with a white head. The aroma has grassy hops, citrus, a little dank, mango and vanilla wafers. The flavor is dank, spicy and grassy. Massive hop flavor. Mild spicy bitterness in the finish. A little denser body than expected considering the ABV, but overall light on the palate with some crackers and grainy malt. Crushable.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Jan 2016
at 12:03
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
15th December 2015
Bottleshare at Chez Smith. Big thanks to Fergus. Lightly hazy gold beer, good pale cream colour head. Airy palate, decent fine carbonation. Light sweetness and cream in the malts. Dank hops, followed by good hop spice and a suppressed pine. Orange and marmalade comes to the fore. A light finish bring a slight lemony sharpness. Smooth and well joined up. Goes down very easy.
Bottleshare at Chez Smith. Big thanks to Fergus. Lightly hazy gold beer, good pale cream colour head. Airy palate, decent fine carbonation. Light sweetness and cream in the malts. Dank hops, followed by good hop spice and a suppressed pine. Orange and marmalade comes to the fore. A light finish bring a slight lemony sharpness. Smooth and well joined up. Goes down very easy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2015
at 05:21
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
15th December 2015
Bottleshare at Chez Smith. Thanks to Fergus. Almost clear gold beer, small cream colour head. Airy palate, modest fine carbonation. Light malt sweetness with fluffy malt cream. Hop spice up front followed by orange and floral lemon, pinch of lemon zest. Whisper of herb before a spicy finish. Hop spice continues to linger. Nice one!
Bottleshare at Chez Smith. Thanks to Fergus. Almost clear gold beer, small cream colour head. Airy palate, modest fine carbonation. Light malt sweetness with fluffy malt cream. Hop spice up front followed by orange and floral lemon, pinch of lemon zest. Whisper of herb before a spicy finish. Hop spice continues to linger. Nice one!
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2015
at 05:12
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
On tap at Cellarmaker. It pours clear and very pale yellow with a creamy white head. The aroma is bright and citrusy with a little peach, pineapple and coconut water. The flavor has spicy hops, citrus, coconut water and some lightly buttered crackers. Very dry with a spicy bitter finish. Lots of resin. Stronger bitterness than most of their hoppy beers.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Dec 2015
at 10:06