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A Barn in West Sac

photo by Kelly Huston from the CraftBeer.com website

I have a lot of catch up, brewery wise in the Sacramento area but after seeing the photo above, I may just want to stay in The Barn that Drake’s Brewery is going to open.

“The Barn,” looks both old and space aged and somewhat Gehry-esque and with the open air aspect could be a great place to relax and enjoy a beer and some food.

Per the article on CraftBeer.com there will be indoor areas (pods) that will have pizza or cocktails.

Also there is “30,000 square feet of lawn, an outdoor bar, six fire pits and two stages for shows and concerts. The Barn will also include an in-house food truck called “Yo Lo, Slow and Low” (Yolo as in the county in which West Sac is located) which will feature tri-tip sandwiches. There is also space for six or more visiting food trucks.”

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Design of a Brewery

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I recently went to an exhibition at the Hammer Museum in Westwood that focused on the small to large designs of the Heatherwick Studio.  Amidst the weird prickly architecture and the ingenious designs for roll out bridges was the above design of the Bombay Sapphire distillery.  An old paper mill in the south of England needed to blossom into a dedicated gin house.

What this design firm did was to “use” what was obviously in front of them.  They were on a river so they played that up.  They planted the botanicals used in gin.  They also made the visitor centre less a visitor only space and actually showed off the distillation process.

It got me to thinking about the next phase of craft brewery spaces and tours.  Stone has it’s gardens and design look but where else really capitalizes on what they have in a unique space.  That may not be possible on a shoestring in an industrial park but instead of just hanging community art on the wall and exposing a brick or two has been done. 
I’m not looking for a redux of Busch Gardens in Van Nuys but I hope breweries are thinking of more immersive ways to welcome guests to their tap rooms.