Opened: 1996
Annual Production: 350 bbl
Contributor: Diane Crawford
March 30, 2007: HopTown is closed pending their relocation to Livermore CA. The beers are being brewed at Sudwerk in the meantime, and rumor has it that HopTown and Sudwerk may be planning some sort of merger.
January 11, 2009: Diane Crawford passes along this news:
"Shared an excellent pint of Pacific Coast ESB at Pacific Coast in Oakland with Dave Heist, proprietor of Hoptown Brewing, late of Pleaasnton, CA. But he had bad news.
Dave says he’s pulled the plug. He delivered his last van load of Paint the Town Red. It’s over for now, he said. He closed his one-man brewery in Pleasanton last summer and has been contract brewing at Sudwerk in Davis, with funds of his own and from an investor."
Updated: January 20, 2009