(Craft) Brewed Boys Can't Fail

Perhaps Tom Robbins was thinking of Santa Barbara when he wrote, “Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer.” We should all know where to get tacos in town (La Colmena!), but the exciting thing is that the places where one can get the beer (if not a bottle, yet), keep growing, seemingly by a new brewery per month.

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The Skinny on Captain Fatty's

“The free beer market is booming,” jokes Preston Angell, the main beer maker for the new Captain Fatty’s Craft Brewery in Goleta. That’s because as Captain Fatty’s finds its way, they’ve been showing up at events like Figueroa Mountain’s Figtoberfests to give free tastes of the early batches. That’s going to end soon, as they’ll have their distribution and microbrewery licenses by then end of October, which will open the way for tastings at their warehouse at 6868 Cortona Drive.

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