Hapa’s Brewing Company – San Jose
Hapa is the Hawaiian word for “mixed.” A word very applicable to brewing beer. Hot water is mixed with malted barley to create wort. Hops are mixed with wort during the boil to add flavor and aroma. Yeast is mixed with the cooled wort to ferment sugars and make beer. Hawaiians also use the word hapa to describe people of mixed cultural backgrounds. Taken in this context, the word is also very applicable to the founders of Hapa’s Brewing Company.
Black Hammer Brewing – San Fransisco
They craft small batch, crazy fresh and crazy good ales and lagers, using traditional techniques, modern innovations, endless creativity and scientific rigor. With twelve small fermenters in the modern artisan brewery – that’s how they’re able to experiment endlessly and refine obsessively – so their beers change daily as they try to push the proverbial envelope, explore uncharted beer territory, and continuously evolve and optimize the delicious creations in their tireless pursuit of beery perfection. They’re deeply in love with what they brew, and they hope that you will be, too.
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