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| The welcoming fronts of Russian River Brewing's Santa Rosa, CA brewpub and Firestone Walker's Barrelworks facility in Buellton, CA |
Those who have read my blog before know that we are huge fans of two well-known California breweries in Firestone Walker and Russian River Brewing. With the former, we had visited their two co-joined facilities in Buellton (their taproom and then their sour-focused Barrelworks facility - this blogpost details how we ended up visiting each separately), and for the latter, their iconic Santa Rosa brewpub seems is something of a mandatory stop when we're in the area, even if it is just to buy a couple of bottles of Pliny The Elder or one of their lovely sours to bring back to Ohio.
One would think that we're traversing over well-trod ground by writing about these two breweries again, but two recent developments for each brewery offered an opportunity to explore some new ground for us, and we were only more than happy to venture in again.
