Stumptown Brewery

Stumptown Brewery sits on River Road in Guerneville, a roadhouse and working brewpub with an expansive outdoor deck above the Russian River. Its current owners bought it in 1995, shortly after one of the river's major floods, and they built the interior expecting the water to return: walls faced in reclaimed fence posts and concrete floors that can be washed clean of silt. That foresight paid off in February 2019, when more than five feet of water came through the building; staff, volunteers and regulars dug the place out, and it reopened on March 9 with its full lineup of beers. Beer is brewed on site, and every August the brewery hosts the Stumptown Beer Revival and BBQ Cookoff. It remains a low-key river roadhouse rather than a showplace, the kind of bar where many of the faces belong to regulars.