Hough's in Greenfield is by far my favorite bar within the city limits. They've got 60-odd beers on taps and a few hundred bottles, all for pretty good prices. They've also got great food and free darts/shuffleboard. You could probably walk there in 20 minutes from Oakland.
Piper's pub in...
There's microbrewery nearby that makes my favorite coffee beer in the world, and I asked him this very question. He actually doesn't do any sort of sanitizing, which surprised me. Just cold brewed it and added to the secondary fermenters, saying at that point he relies on the low pH and the...