Sitting on Revolution Hall’s roof deck while sipping a glass of the Commons’ Urban Farmhouse—a brewery not more than a disc golf par-five from the former high school—Charlie Hyde talks about his forthcoming Bodega Beer Co. set to open by year’s end catty-corner from here. That also makes it directly across the street from Beer, the beer bar half of truth-in-advertising Meat Cheese Bread.
It’s not just this intersection of Southeast Stark and 14th that’s soaked in beer—it’s the entire twin neighborhoods of Hosford-Abernethy and Buckman. Tackle a brewery crawl that zigzags you to all 14 breweries (from Carston Haney’s new Ross Island Brewing to the south and Burnside Brewing to the north), and you’ll have only hoofed it 3.4 miles. (And it’s only 1.8 miles as the crow flies.)
