Must-Eat Summer Treats
As soon as it was introduced in 2018 as part of Alaro’s launch menu, the midtown brewery’s float flight took off in popularity. Indeed, the quaffable quartet, combining your pick of on-tap brews with vanilla, Dutch chocolate or two-tone swirl soft-serve crafted with dairy from Petaluma’s Straus Family Creamery, served as the perfect capper to […]
Sacramento’s Alaro brewery sees schism between critical success and Untappd scores
Ray Ballestero makes good beer. Everybody says so. Ballestero, who owns Sacramento’s Alaro brewery, won a coveted gold medal at the 2018 Great American Beer Festival. Alaro’s The Castillo won the English IPA category, making the brewery the youngest in history to win gold at the GABF. The Castillo also cruised to gold at the […]
Coronavirus Here’s how some Sacramento breweries are staying open under new coronavirus restrictions
Breweries like Alaro Craft Brewing in Midtown are a prime example of making things work despite a setback. They had to shut down their dine-in seating earlier this week according to Governor Gavin Newsom’s orders, but as long as they are still serving food with every purchase outside, they can keep their patios open. Author: […]
Take out on your own timetable with meal kits from regional restaurants
Unprecedented times call for unprecedented amounts of takeout. But the sudden shift to a time-blurring work-from-home life combined with reduced hours at many restaurants could sometimes make take-out-and-eat-later a more convenient choice for diners, especially those who want to plan ahead. “Buying food hot and eating it right away isn’t [always] an option for people […]
The Session | Alaro Craft Brewery
The Session is back this week after the long holiday break with Downtown Sacramento’s Alaro Craft Brewery. Owner, Ray Ballestero, and Head Brewer, Chris Keeton, join us in the studio and tell us about the unique history of Alaro, which opened in an iconic craft beer location in Midtown Sacramento. With big shoes to fill, […]
The California Brewers Bypassing Buyouts in Favor of ‘Beer With Soul’
People living in urban centers tend to sniff at the sameness of the suburbs, but these days, a lot of American cities look uncannily alike. There are Targets and Soulcycles as far as the eye can see, and an array of cookie-cutter coffee shops that vaguely resemble WeWorks. By Emily Saladino
Taste of Spain – Tapas, Alaro Craft Brewery
Sacramento’s heat makes small, shareable bites much more appetizing than a heavy full meal. Alaro Craft Brewery has a fantastic tapas menu including traditional Spanish dishes By Tessa Marguerite Outland
Savory Spanish
Alaro Craft Brewery has hit the press again! This time in Sac News & Review. David Santana is Alaro Craft Brewery’s new head chef. He has spent the majority of his cooking career, seven years, in between OneSpeed and The Waterboy. When Rubicon Brewing Company, one of Sacramento’s oldest names in beer, shut down in […]
The 8 Most Instagrammable Places in Sacramento
Easily one of the best breweries around, it’s also one of the most Instagrammable places in Sacramento. Alaro has everything you’d want in a brewery. Their award-winning brews will not disappoint, and the facade is begging to be photographed. Exposed brick and dark hardwoods accent the space and create a great ambiance, while the large […]
New in Brew
When Alaro opened in the empty Rubicon space last June, it came bearing ties to some of the best-known beer brands in the region. Co-owner Annette Ballestero was one of the founders of River City, while head brewer Chris Keeton used to make beers at Rubicon. Even with all that experience, Alaro still became the […]
All-Star Lineup
NEW BREWERY-RESTAURANT GROWS FROM OLD ROOTS You’d be forgiven if you couldn’t keep track of the multiple brewery and restaurant openings in Sacramento last year. The region is simply bristling with new places opening at a record pace. To complicate the mix, in the last few years, we’ve seen openings (and closings) of several Sacramento […]
Sacramento’s Alaro Craft Brewery Wins Gold at World’s Most Coveted Beer Competition.
“We knew we were up against the best breweries in the country,” Ray Ballestero remembers. After he’s been making beer for 30 years, Ballestero the owner of Sacramento’s newest brewery, Alaro Craft Brewery, is basking in the fact that the brewery’s first IPA took home a gold medal from the Great American Beer Festival in […]
Flights of Fancy
Alaro Craft Brewery has already carved out a nice niche for itself in the six months since it opened: pairing a panoply of tasty tapas with flights of classic craft beer is just the kind of short-attention-span theater we crave these days. And come time for dessert, the carousel of choices doesn’t slow down one […]
Sacramento Magazine – Sweet or Savory?
Sacramento Magazine recently reviewed a selection of some of the best desserts in Sacramento. Alaro’s head chef Jason Azevedo presented our Stout Float in fine form! If you love dessert but prefer just a hint of sweetness instead of something cloying after dinner, you’re in luck. Several local restaurants are turning out daringly inventive desserts […]
The Stoutcast – Episode 14, Giving Thanks
You may know him from Rubicon but Chris Keeton is now the head brew dude at Alaro in Sacramento. Todd and Bob sit down with him and do some deep thinking over four pretty interesting beers: Alaro’s own oatmeal, Young’s Double Chocolate, St Peter’s Cream Stout, and Samuel Smith’s Oatmeal. Photo: The Stoutcast
Alaro Craft Brewery – Brewery & Restaurant
Five friends and I dined at Alaro Craft Brewery in Midtown Sacramento prior to attending the B Street Theatre at the Sophia. Alaro Craft Brewery opened in June in the space long-occupied by Rubicon Brewing Company. Alaro Craft Brewery head brewer Chris Keeton formerly crafted beer at Rubicon. I had made reservations ahead of time, […]
Sacmag – Taps & Tapas
When Sacramento’s groundbreaking Rubicon Brewing Company closed its doors in 2017, it was clear that whoever took over the space would have big shoes to fill. Rubicon, founded in 1987, was a pioneer in the area’s beer scene and enjoyed le-gions of loyal customers. Enter Ray and Annette Ballestero, husband-and-wife craft-brew veterans (she was a […]
What is the difference between Kölsch and Altbier?
Kölsch and Altbier, same same but different? Our good friends from Red Bus Brewing in Folsom CA reached out to us and suggested brewing in Collaboration. They are super cool so of course we accepted. Now we had to decide what to brew. Alaro Craft Brewery founded itself on “Beer Flavored Beer” and we are […]
Sacramento Beer Week 2021
Alaro’s Sacramento Beer Week Events 2021 Friday, April 23rd – Rising Together Beer Release. This Friday, April 23rd is our Sacramento Area Brewers Guild Collaboration “Rising Together” Beer Release! We will start pouring $5 pints of this dreamy Simcoe, Amarillo & Sultana hopped West Coast IPA starting at 11:30am and will have a limited amount […]
Sac Bee – Brewers entered 8,500 beers into a Denver festival. These six locals won medals.
Six Sacramento-area breweries took home medals from the Great American Beer Festival — the nation’s most competitive brewing showcase — in Denver last weekend. Alaro Craft Brewery led the pack with a gold medal for its English-style IPA named Castillo IPA. It’s the first major festival award for Alaro, which opened its Spanish-influenced brewery and […]
El Dorado County Commercial Beer Competition Results
First commercial beer competition of the year – 5 beers entered and 5 awards! Good way to start the year! Here is the results posted: -35 IPA Double Gold Alaro Craft Brewery Specialty IPA (21B) Balthazar33 IPA Silver Alaro Craft Brewery English IPA (12C) Castillo5 Pale Lager Bronze Alaro Craft Brewery Czech Premium Pale Lager […]
The Great Sacramento Beer Boom of 2018
If you’re a beer lover (or even a mere beer liker), there’s never been a better time to soak up the suds, with yet another pub popping up seemingly every week around town. Have foam FOMO? Here are 10 cool new places to grab a pint… By Vu Chau Illustration by Jared Schafer
Cannot Wait for Brunch at Alaro Craft Brewery in Midtown Sacramento
Alaro Craft Brewery got its name in part from a Mallorca municipality in the Balearic Islands of Spain. It used to be Rubicon Brewing Company in that location at 2004 Capitol, but that 30-year institution in Sacramento closed its doors last year. We had been reading about the opening of Alaro Craft Brewery. I’ve been […]
Sac Bee – Alaro offers enticing options for a brewpub with a unique flavor on its menu
Sacramento already has so many brewpubs that you could be forgiven for thinking we might not need one more, in the shape of Alaro Craft Brewery, which opened in June in the former location of Rubicon. A meal or two at the Spanish-inspired spot might change your mind. Yes, I said Spanish — and while […]
