Oak Park Brewing Co. heads to Brooklyn for craft beer competition
Oak Park Brewing Co., a Sacramento brewery, will compete in Brooklyn this week for the title of America’s next top craft brewery.
At the Samuel Adams Crafting Dreams Beer Bash, the Sacramento brewers will face off against five other American craft breweries for the title, including Florian East Lagers & Ales of Hamtramck, Michigan, Immigrant Son Brewery of Lakewood, Ohio, Intermission Beer Company of Glen Allen, Virginia, Pilot Brewing of Charlotte, North Carolina, and Soul Mega of Washington, D.C.
As finalists for the Brewing the American Dream Experienceship, Oak Park Brewing Co. is, according to the Beer Bash event page, competing for the chance to “come to the Boston Brewery, work side by side with a team of experts and mentors, learn the craft and business of brewing and collaborate on a specialty beer with Samuel Adams.”
Tickets for the Beer Bash are free, and attendees will sample beers from all the finalists in attendance before voting for the winner. According to Oak Park Brewing Co.’s Instagram, they will be pouring the Mystic Cloud Hazy IPA at the competition. Brewed with orange peel, the brewery describes it on their website as “(soft), clean, and dry” and with an “orange bite (that) tingles the tongue and quickly dissipates leaving a soft hop bitterness that lingers on the palate.”
Oak Park Brewing Co., which opened in 2019, is one of two Black-owned breweries in Sacramento. Along with beer, they also make hard cider and hard seltzer.
The Brewing the American Dream philanthropic program was launched in 2008 by Samuel Adams founder Jim Koch to provide loans and business coaching to American food and drink entrepreneurs. 2026 marks the 12th year of the Brewing & Business Experienceship program, and Oak Park Brewing Co. is this year’s only finalist hailing from the West Coast.
