Gilman Brewing Company sits in West Berkeley’s Gilman District, in a light industrial pocket that has filled in with breweries, wineries, and food spots. The taproom is in a converted auto shop, so the space is open and a little warehouse-like, with concrete floors, high ceilings, and a mix of long communal tables and smaller setups. There is a front patio along the street where people tend to spread out during daytime events, and it is usually the spillover zone when bands or fairs are going on.
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Inside, the focus is on their own beer, with a rotating list that usually covers a range from hoppy IPAs to saisons and a few experimental one-offs. Food is handled in-house most days, with Detroit style pizzas, wings, and other bar standards, but larger events will sometimes bring in food trucks that park nearby. The place handles a wide variety of gatherings: daytime craft fairs with dozens of vendors and rescue dog adoptions, multi band punk bills that run into the evening, and stand up comedy nights with a small stage area set up near the front. It also hosts more laid back, age specific music nights, like R&B events tailored to a 55+ crowd that take over the taproom on weekend evenings.
Gilman Brewing opened in 2015 and was started by two veterinary orthopedic surgeons and a musician friend who turned the old auto shop into a production brewery and taproom. It is right next door to the long running all ages punk venue 924 Gilman, so on show nights there is often a mix of concert goers using the brewery as a pre or post show stop, mixed in with regulars from the neighborhood and people coming in specifically for ticketed events.
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Alternative Music Foundation
924 Gilman St, Berkeley, CA 94710, USA0.0 miles away
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