Adobe Creek Brewing
Novato, California, USA · Est. 2017
Tally's Take
Why this matters
California Pass 187. Official site labels Novato as BREWERY + TAPROOM and Petaluma as TAPROOM; official About page says production began March 2017 and names Jonathan MacDonald founder/head brewer and Tim Hemmelgarn founding partner.
The Beer Library
Beers
Derealization Pale Ale
Year-RoundHazy Pale Ale
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://www.adobecreekbrewing.com/welcome. Official Our Brews page; Galaxy-led tropical-hop profile.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Invisible Peak Imperial IPA
Year-RoundImperial IPA
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://www.adobecreekbrewing.com/welcome. Official Our Brews page; Citra-forward.
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Year-RoundWest Coast IPA
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://www.adobecreekbrewing.com/welcome. Official Our Brews page.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Collars & Cuffs Blonde Ale
Year-RoundBlonde Ale
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://www.adobecreekbrewing.com/welcome. Official Our Brews page.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Tamalpais Lager
Year-RoundPre-Prohibition Mexican-Style Lager
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://www.adobecreekbrewing.com/welcome. Official Our Brews page; brewery says recipe won first place in California State Homebrew Competition.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Mex-Vienna Lager
Year-RoundVienna-Style Mexican Lager
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://www.adobecreekbrewing.com/welcome. Official Our Brews page.
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Sources
- recordProbable
Brewery record taken from Tally's California master, Pass 187, which cited https://www.adobecreekbrewing.com/about for this entry. The cited page has not been opened by the archive.
Tally's California master, Pass 187 (research workbook) · Tally's Beer Universe research workbook · 2026
CommercialMedium reliabilityAccessed 2026-08-19Reviewed 2026-08-19
Only the claims above are sourced. Everything else on this page is the archive's own research and has not yet been tied to a document — which is worth knowing rather than hiding.
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