Prior to the pandemic, Six Rivers was producing about 2,500 barrels a year and Maier says production is starting to rebound. “We’re passionate about creating a community space and being that favorite watering hole where everybody knows your name and they’re glad you came,” Maier says. Talia Clare, left, and Meredith Maier own and operate Six Rivers Brewery. ![]() Lost Coast is now the 37th largest brewer in the country and the seventh largest in California, says the Brewers Association, a nonprofit industry group. The 120-barrel system has the capacity to fill 1.2 million bottles and cans a day, along with 1,400 kegs. In 2014, Groom realized a long-held dream and brewed the first batch of beer at its new facility just south of Eureka. Downtown Brown, with its Picasso-esque label, has been another longtime staple and Tangerine Wheat is popular throughout the brewery’s large distribution area. “That’s why Great White does so well,” adds Groom, referring to the popular Belgian-style wheat beer that anchors the Lost Coast lineup. “That got all out of whack with IPAs,” she says of the ubiquitous hop-forward styles of beers dominating taps and store shelves. Groom’s theory on beer is that it should be well rounded with malts that match the hops. I just wanted to have a good brewery, so I just kept paddling away.” Patience was critical to the brewery’s success. People didn’t know what a brewpub was, but now it’s the happening place in Eureka,” she says. Craft beer had yet to receive widespread appreciation and Lost Coast’s debut was pretty rocky at first, Groom recalls. Using a 10-barrel brewing system she rescued from the former Redding Brewing Co., Groom in 1989 launched Lost Coast Brewery and Cafe in a 100-year-old warehouse on Fourth Street. ![]() Tangerine Wheat beer is a big seller for Lost Coast Brewery, opened by craft brewing pioneer Barbara Groom in 1989.
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