(San Francisco, CA) – The San Francisco Bay space gained a brand new era of star breweries within the 2010’s. Following within the footsteps of Anchor Brewing, Marin Brewing, twenty first Modification Brewing and Drakes, younger startups Cellarmaker Brewing and The Uncommon Barrel carried the torch for contemporary craft beer tastes. Whereas Cellarmaker made a reputation for his or her unfiltered hoppy beer and different “clear beer” choices, The Uncommon Barrel joined the American Bitter/Wild Ale motion, one thing that was very a lot in model and demand once they opened up in 2013. Whereas being a “bitter solely” home proved difficult, the gifted people at The Uncommon Barrel continued alongside, making some minor changes to remain present with the tendencies. Whereas pundits predicted the challenges TRB would face out there, it seems they had been seeking to make a change. Here’s a be aware from their Instagram web page:
Over the previous six months, we’ve been exploring a sale of the brewery. Like many others, the monetary toll of the pandemic hit us arduous and we decided that one of the simplest ways of stopping a closure can be to discover a accomplice to take over The Uncommon Barrel.
In the present day we’re happy to announce that we’ve reached a deal to promote to our buddies at Cellarmaker Brewing, who will proceed to provide and promote The Uncommon Barrel model along with making their nice beer in our facility.
For the previous 10 years, we at TRB have had the good honor to work with so many terrific buddies throughout this trade, a protracted listing of fantastic staff and passionate prospects. We thanks all from the underside of our hearts on your help and kindness.
As a part of the transition of The Uncommon Barrel model to Cellarmaker we might want to shut earlier than they will formally take over. The precise date of that’s nonetheless TBD however we’ll maintain you up to date. We anticipate many questions however please bear with us throughout this transition. Extra updates will come however for now we simply needed to say thanks for the years of help.
Keep bitter.
In the meantime, Cellarmaker is on the tail finish of weathering the storm of COVID 19, specifically the acute restrictions the town of San Francisco positioned on hospitality companies. All whereas spinning up a brand new location in Oakland. In the present day, we be taught that they had been unable to return to phrases to maintain their authentic Howard Road location in San Francisco, and fortunately for Cellarmaker and The Uncommon Barrel, issues have fallen into place.
We’re excited to announce that we’re buying The Uncommon Barrel model and facility in Berkeley, California. We’re thrilled to double down on our East Bay presence alongside our upcoming Oakland location @cellarmaker.oakland slated to open in February of 2023. We love the vitality and sense of neighborhood within the East Bay. We’re honored to hitch many buddies within the space, producing top quality beer for the higher Bay Space.
We’ve been shut buddies with the The Uncommon Barrel crew since earlier than their model and ours launched in 2013 and have labored collectively intently all through the previous decade on numerous collaboration beers, traveled to occasions collectively and even celebrated our 5 yr anniversaries collectively. It’s been a privilege to contemplate them buddies and colleagues. We’ll proceed the Uncommon Barrel model and product line along with utilizing the brewery of their facility to supply an elevated presence of Cellarmaker beer all through the Bay. Extra Pale Ales. Extra Lagers. Extra Barrel Aged Barleywine!
In probably the most bittersweet manner, our lease at our Howard Road location is coming to an finish and we’ve been unable to succeed in any affordable settlement with our landlord to maneuver ahead. In all honesty, we outgrew the Howard Road area a very long time in the past regardless of persevering with operations there. We’ve been on the hunt for a bigger location to develop the model for a while, the TRB area in Berkeley is simply what we want. The choice to shut Howard Road is just not one thing we took evenly and was extremely troublesome.
We sincerely respect every one in every of you that has visited us at our Howard Road location over the previous 9 years. We’ll proceed to function the tasting room by the top of December and hope you’ll be a part of us for one (or three) ultimate beers earlier than we are saying goodbye to our authentic flagship location.
The Home of Pizza in Bernal Heights is just not going anyplace and can proceed to function, serving as our San Francisco location. Please proceed to go to us there for our Detroit Type Sq. Pies and Cellarmaker beer.
The Cellarmaker Berkeley location will start making beer for our model as soon as the license switch is full in a month or so. We intend to reopen the taproom at that location within the Spring. At present we’re focusing our staff’s vitality on opening @cellarmaker.oakland.
Thanks for your whole help. We sit up for Cellarmaker’s subsequent chapter @cellarmaker.berkeley
Sincerely,
Connor, Kelly and Tim
