Beyond making tasty food and beers, we are working to grow a community rooted in kindness. We host regular bike rides and other activities that encourage people to get active in the beautiful sierra foothills. Our brewery is a great place to start and end a bike ride, hike or day on the river.
Here are a few other businesses and organizations we work with regularly that share our ethos.
Imperial Hotel
Our sister business is a six-room historic boutique hotel in downtown Amador city with a full bar and dining room.
16 Quartz Hop Farm
Located on highway 16 about 5 miles from the brewery, 16 Quartz grows a range of excellent quality hops. We buy as much of our hops as we can from them.
Upcountry Farms
Our friends Dan and Tori run this great little veggie farm out in Ione. Their veggies are unparalleled, and we use a lot of them on our menu.
PT Ranch
PT ranch is an ambitious and inspiring regenerative ranch located in Ione. They raise sheep, pigs, and chickens, and have done land restoration projects that include rotational grazing and silvopasture.
Admiral Maltings
We purchase over 95% of the grain used in our beers from admiral maltings in alameda. They work with farmers across California to grow low impact, dry farmed barley, wheat, and oats. They take that California grain and malt it up for us to make beer out of. It’s remarkably tasty stuff.
Amador Trail Stewardship
ATS strives to develop, provide access to and main-tain multi-use trail systems that enhance our local community.
Amador Farmers Market
The Amador Farmers Market inspire and nurture a healthy community by building a local, sustainable food economy in a vibrant experiential marketplace.
Friends & Retail Partners
Guantonios
A family owned and operated restaurant in Lodi that is focused
on, and inspired by, the beauty that is northern California agriculture. The selected medium for their food philosophy is wood fired pizza.
The Rake
At Admiral Maltings is a one-of-a-kind establishment where you can sample libations made with admiral maltings California grown and malted grain while watching the maltsters at work. A fun place to check out beers made with California malt.
State Bird, The Anchovy Bar, And The Progress
Are a trio of our favorite San Francisco restaurants. The food is stellar, certainly; as is their beverage programme. Not to be missed on your next trip to the city.
Small Town Food & Wine
Our neighbors and good friends here in town
We Support The Following Not For Profit Organizations
The Foothill Conservancy
Is a local non-profit with the mission to protect, restore and
sustain the natural and human environment in amador and calaveras counties for the benefit of current and future generations.
Amador Fire Safe Council
A local non-profit with the mission to protect the people and property of amador ounty from the catastrophic effects of wildfire through education, outreach, innovation, and action.
Sutter Amador Hospital
A community based non-profit hospital with 52 licensed beds. As the only hospital in amador county it serves a population of more than 40,000 people.
Amador City Business And Community Association
A local non-profit supporting business and community engagement in amador city.
The Future Starts Now, Inc.
A local non-profit dedicated to the production of inspiring high quality investigative journalism, photography, poetry, and educational programs that sim to shift toward a paradigm of health, joy, and abundance and away from disease, misery, and scarcity.
Farms Of Amador
A Local non-profit that supports agricultural education programs for local youth, and work to increase awareness of our county’s many agricultural products.