Urban Roots Brewery is a collaboration between friends Peter Hoey, formerly the brewmaster at Sacramento Brewing Company, and Rob Archie, the owner of Pangaea Bier Café. They dreamed up the taphouse and restaurant nearly 10 years before opening MAY 2018 in downtown Sacramento. Over those 10 years, they continued to bond over their shared love of beer, particularly saisons and even traveled to countries like Germany and Belgium to drink together. Then, in 2016, a massive 17,000-square-foot brick-and-concrete industrial space became available, and the beer buddies finally decided to dust off the blueprints. Peaks & Pints received a second drop of Urban Roots beer, enticing us to offer the brewery as our Friday beer flight, Peaks & Pints Beer Flight: Urban Roots.

Peaks & Pints Beer Flight: Urban Roots

Urban Roots Right Right

6.5% ABV

Hazy IPA brewed with Sabro, Citra, El Dorado, and Amarillo hops for tropical fruit and citrus notes.

Urban Roots Like Riding a Bike

6.2% ABV

West Coast IPA brewed with Simcoe and Mosaic for grapefruit on the nose, followed by more grapefruit plus weedy dankness, candied pineapple, Meyer lemon, and pine.

Urban Roots Guacamole Is Extra

6.8% ABV

This West Coast IPA is brewed with Rahr 2-row, Munich, and Rye malt, plus Citra, Mosaic, and CTZ hops. It offers citrus and pine, a bit of malt, and a slight bite lingering on the dryish finish.

Urban Roots Extra Guacamole

8.2% ABV

This double IPA features more malt and hops than its little brother, Guacamole Is Extra. A West Coast dankness and crispy, clean finish balance out its notes of passionfruit and citrus.

Urban Roots All Possible Futures

12.5% ABV

Urban Roots brewed All Possible Futures barleywine using a double mash for extra concentrated malt flavor and aroma. The resulting beer offers intense caramel, toffee, and biscuity-bready-rich malt from 100-percent Simpsons Maris Otter and Crystal malt. The beer was put into Stagg Jr Bourbon barrels in April of 2022 and aged for two years, further intensifying the caramel notes and imparting intense bourbon, vanilla, and mild oak. Between the age and the barrels, the beer developed a brown sugar-like sweetness swirling with all the fierce toffee and bourbon barrel character with a mild chocolatey finish.

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