The East Bay’s favorite beer garden does it all with a death motif

Beneath Ghost City’s morbid exterior, behind the ever-present skeleton and demon statues and beers named “Pace ​​of Dying,” “Detestable,” “Bitter Violence” and “Torture Backyard,” lies a crowd-pleasing brewery that has created a beer backyard that the East Bay attracts to for award-winning brews, a artistic menu with decisions for everybody and “impeccable ambiance,” as one Nosh Awards voter put it.

Nosh readers forged their votes forward of Thanksgiving, and the outcomes of the Nosh costs 2025 are inside. Go to Nosh each day from now till December 12 to see a brand new prize introduced each day. Congratulations to all winners!

Ghost City Brewing has constructed up a major trophy cupboard since its founding in 2012. Most significantly, it took dwelling Brewery and Brewer of the Yr (manufacturing class 5,001-15,000 barrels) on the 2022 Nice American Beer Competition. On the World Beer Cup in Could, Ghost City was certainly one of solely two breweries to win 5 medals, 4 of which had been gold.

Now, Nosh Awards voters have tapped Ghost City’s Laurel location for one more trophy: the East Bay’s Finest Beer Backyard/Taproom for 2025.

For Nosh Awards voters, Ghost City’s ‘nice meals’, ‘nice rotating beer checklist’ and household and dog-friendly ambiance had been cited time and time once more as causes for its favourite standing.

“Not solely does Ghost City Laurel have nice beer (and many sorts to select from), however in addition they have nice meals with so many wholesome choices made with love, and a brilliant pleasant employees. Truthfully, the nice meals will get me there and the beer retains me staying. Good outside eating space to take the pups and hang around with mates,” one voter commented.

Ghost City’s Laurel Beer Backyard gives a menu with an excellent vary of dishes to please most palates and dietary restrictions, from large salads and a vegetable bowl on a mattress of couscous to fish tacos, jalapeño poppers, bratwurst, comfortable pretzels and a cheeseburger that pairs completely with a hoppy brew. The beer menu can also be different, with porters, sours, IPAs, ciders, lagers and cream stouts.

“The fish-n-chips are merely superb,” mentioned one voter. “The good individuals, the best ambiance, the perfect beers and that burger!!!” wrote one other.

Ghost City Brewing began as a approach to four band members to pay for the rehearsal space. The 4 co-founders, Ryan Nosek, Sam Carr-Prindle, Jason Gehman and Adam Hill, had been a metallic band that received collectively on the weekends to homebrew. Then the beer began. They opened a brewery and taproom in West Oakland in 2018 and expanded with the Laurel location in 2021.

For the reason that starting, Ghost City’s founders have made affordability a precedence, and Nosh voters have observed.

“Nice alternative of beers on faucet and all the time a terrific and low cost menu for everybody,” mentioned one worth selector.

The Laurel location, not like West Oakland, has no indoor seating, however a spacious outside space with picnic tables shaded by umbrellas. In the course of the winter months the beer backyard provides further tents to raised stand up to dangerous climate.

“Pleasant employees who love canines, nice outside seating, my favourite and well-priced meals in Oakland,” one Nosh voter summarized.

The opposite finalists in Finest Beer Backyard/Taproom had been Two Pitchers, Fieldwork, Brix Manufacturing facility Brewing, Headlands Brewing in Westbrae and Temescal Brewing.