It can be hard to find something to do that the whole family will love. Too often, “family friendly” means the kids go nuts on a playground while mom and dad wait it out.

If you’re heading up to Placer County anytime soon, you’ll find all sorts of new breweries have opened there in recent years.

Beer on the farm, you ask? It’s a way of life for a small group of families in South Placer County. They’re growers dedicated to the agricultural side of suds — hops are plants, after all, and the mandarins in your citrus IPA have to grow somewhere.

San Diego might be California’s beer Mecca, but there are some other incredible destinations to check out.

When exploring Gold Country, many travelers plan their trips around breweries and wineries they would like to visit. It’s a salute to history, actually, since beer dates back to the Gold Rush era, as thirsty prospectors soothed their parched throats with something more flavorful (and fun) than water.

Wanting to start a new adventure—or in their case, "ag-venture"—together, Michael and Cathy Johnson left jobs in the urban jungle of the Bay Area to pursue the rural life in Lincoln, about 30 miles northeast of Sacramento. They came up with GoatHouse Brewing Co....

Lincoln, California’s GoatHouse Brewing Company has seen a meteoric rise in its first five years, with both Forbes and Brewers Association naming GoatHouse the second fastest growing small brewery in the country.

Love beer? Love animals? We’ve got great news for you! There’s an incredibly unique brewhouse in Northern California that you’ll want to pay a visit.

Traveling partners often split their preferences between wine and beer, with one preferring the rustic elegance of the wine world while the other yearns for the unpretentious experimentation of the beer sphere.

Congratulations to the winners of Lincoln News Messenger’s Best of the Best. GoatHouse Brewing was voted Best Brewery for 2018.

A Bay Area couple leaves behind their urban life to start a unique “farm to tap” brewery in the foothills near Lincoln. Read more: https://youtu.be/oUT95m9Agr8

Sacramento A-List

The 2018 Sacramento A-List awards are based on more than 85,000 votes from local Sacramento-area experts.

KFBK News Radio

A Lincoln farm and brewery recently began hosting yoga classes with an unusual twist.
GoatHouse Brewing gives yogis the chance to practice onsite with the help of an instructor … and a group of goats.

ABC10

GoatHouse Brewery is now hosting goat yoga classes every few weeks.

SFGate.com

Lincoln brewery makes Forbes list for fastest-growing brewery in U.S. Goat HouseBrewing describes itself as Farm-to-Tap, and it only serves its beers at the farmhouse.

KCRA

GoatHouse Brewing Company in Lincoln uses everything on the farm to help create their one of a kind beers.

KCRA

Goat House Brewing describes itself as Farm-to-Tap, and it only serves its beers at the farmhouse.

Beer Connoisseur

The Brewers Association has released a list of the Top 50 Fastest-Growing craft breweries in 2017. Breweries had to have opened before 12/31/2015 in order to qualify, and the median growth rate for the breweries was 216 percent from 2016 to 2017…

Forbes

GoatHouse Brewing in Lincoln, California, ranks No. 2 in the fastest-growing rankings. Owner Catherine Johnson says the three-barrel brewery, located about 30 miles northeast of Sacramento, is the only authentic farm-to-tap brewery in the state…

The Brewers Association

The Brewers Association (BA) today released its inaugural list of the 50 fastest growing small and independent craft brewing companies of 2017…

Mix96
One of our favorite places to spend a warm, Northern California afternoon! GoatHouse Brewing Co., was named the second-fastest-growing small and independent craft brewing company in the country…

Sacramento Bee

Brewery owner Cathy Johnson with a sample of beer in the tasting room at the GoatHouse Brewery in Lincoln. The brewery/farm, owned by Michael and Cathy Johnson, won a Brewers Association award

CraftBeer.com

Publishers of CraftBeer.com and the trade organization to protect and promote small brewers, released a list of the 50 Fastest Growing Craft Brewers in the country…

KNCI

I have great news! GoatHouse was named the 2nd fastest growing small and independent brewery in the US by Brewers Association. That’s #2 IN. THE. NATION.

Comstock’s Magazine

To get the view from the top, Comstock’s spoke with a few women brewery owners in the Capital Region about their diverse backgrounds, their paths to leadership and their thoughts on getting more women into craft beer.

Comstock’s Magazine

Out among the winding roads and rolling fields of the Placer County foothills, where vineyards thrive in the Mediterranean climate and wineries are plentiful, a new kind of bucolic drinking experience has begun to flourish.

Comstock’s Magazine

Catherine and Michael Johnson, co-owners of GoatHouse Brewing offer their insight into the local craft beer scene.

Sacramento Bee

Sacramento’s craft beer scene continues to evolve and expand, but somehow, it’s the same businesses that get singled out for praise again and again.

BasilandSalt.com

One of my first weekend trips to Placer County, CA included a stop at GoatHouse Brewing, which recently celebrated four years in business.

How It’s Made

Featured in Episode 8 of the international TV show, How It’s Made, GoatHouse Brewing, along with Wise Villa Winery, showcased the innovative beverage named the “vinobrew”.