Bottoms Up

My next column is about learning to homebrew, so here are some resources in the Bay Area to get you started.

Homebrewing Supply Stores

• Barley and Wine (Modesto)
• Beer and Wine Makers of America (San Jose)
• The Beverage People (Santa Rosa)
• BrewMaster (San Leandro) [online sales only]
• Fermentation Solutions (Campbell)
• The Good Brewer (Livermore)
• HopTech Homebrewing Supplies (Dublin)
• J&M Brewing Supplies (Novato)
• Napa Fermentation Supplies (Napa)
• Oak Barrel Winecraft (Berkeley)
• Portable Potables (Santa Cruz)
• MoreBeer (Concord, Los Altos)
• San Francisco Brewcraft (San Francisco)
• Seven Bridges Co-op Organic Homebrew Supplies (Santa Cruz)
• Williams Brewing (San Leandro) [online sales only]

Homebrew Clubs

• Affinity Home Brewing Club (San Jose)
• Almaden Brewers (San Jose)
• Bay Area Brew Crew (South San Francisco)
• Bay Area Mashers (Berkeley)
• Brewbirds Of Hoppiness (Pacifica)
• Central Coast Zymurgeeks (Capitola)
• Coast Masters of Pacifica (Pacifica)
• Cotati Home Brewer’s Collective (Cotati)
• Delta Brewing Club (Antioch) [new website live mid-February]
• Diablo Order of Zymiracle Enthusiasts a.k.a. DOZE (Diablo)
• Draught Board Homebrew Club (Oakland)
• The Grain Trust (SanJose)
• Grand Order of Beverage Enthusiasts (Daly City)
• The HeadQuarters (Campbell)
• Hetch Hetchy Hop Heads (Redwood City)
• Hollister Hoppers Homebrew Club (Hollister)
• HOME Brewers (Petlauma) [no website]
• Kettle-2-Keg (Martinez)
• Mad Zymurgists (Pleasanton)
• Marin Society of Homebrewers (Napa)
• Modesto Mashers (Modesto)
• Motown Brewers (Modesto)
• Napa Bung Brewers a.k.a. BUNG (Napa)
• The Odd Grogs (Healdsburg)
• Redwood Coast Brewers Association (Santa Cruz)
• The San Fermenters Homebrew Club (San Francisco)
• San Francisco Homebrewers Guild (San Francisco)
• Santa Clara Valley Brewers (Santa Clara)
• Santa Cruz Craft Beer (Santa Cruz)
• Silicon Valley Sudzers (South Bay)
• Sirwisa Brewing Collective (Mill Valley)
• SF Base Malts (San Francisco)
• Sonoma Beerocrats Homebrewing Club (Santa Rosa)
• Sonoma Valley Homebrewers Alliance (Sonoma)
• Stanford Brewing Club (Palo Alto)
• Trout Gulch Brewers (Aptos)
• Worts of Wisdom Homebrewers (San Jose)

If there’s a shop or club I’ve missed, just add a comment here, and I’ll update it.