Two Pitchers Brewing, the Oakland beer garden beloved for its fruit-forward radlers and famously cheap pints, is packing up some of its playbook for San Francisco’s Outer Sunset. The co-founders are planning a smaller, beer-garden-style taproom at 3821 Noriega St. in the coming months, bringing their low-ABV, juice-and-beer blends closer to the beach. For neighborhood runners, cyclists and families who lean toward easy-drinking shandies, the new outpost promises a familiar pandemic-era comfort: patio seating, smashburgers and a lineup of local guest taps.
Why the Sunset?
The Noriega Street location sits just a few blocks from Sunset Dunes and is designed to lean harder into outdoor seating than a typical walk-in bar, with roughly 20 taps pouring a mix of house beers and guest brews, according to the San Francisco Standard. The owners told the paper they chose the spot to tap into the area’s cyclists and runners and to play up radlers’ reputation as a post-ride refresher. The Standard also reported that the new taproom will serve smashburgers from Maillard's alongside Two Pitchers’ own lineup.
Oakland Roots And The $3 Pint
Two Pitchers built its reputation in Uptown Oakland, where the beer garden at 2344 Webster Street pours Baseline Lager for $3 a pint and pairs a lengthy tap list with smashburgers from Lovely’s. Local coverage has praised the Webster Street spot as one of the East Bay’s standout beer gardens, highlighting the outdoor patios and food partnership as major draws, per Oaklandside. Those elements helped the brand grow from contract-brewing experiments into a widely available canned radler line.
From Williams College To Craft Radlers
Co-founders Wilson Barr and Tommy Hester met on the Williams College baseball team and, as the San Francisco Chronicle noted when Two Pitchers opened its Uptown taproom, both were pitchers, a detail that helped shape the brewery’s name and culture. They started out contract-brewing radlers after Barr returned from a trip to Europe and later opened the Webster Street taproom in 2021, the Chronicle reported. That origin story helps explain why low-ABV, fruit-forward beers have become the brewery’s calling card.
What To Expect
The Noriega Street taproom is expected to open in the coming months and will be smaller than the Oakland flagship, with a focus on outdoor seating, a split between Two Pitchers’ own taps and guest pours, and a tight burger program. The Mercury News covered the expansion on March 27, 2026, noting the founders’ Williams College roots and the plan to bring radlers to San Francisco’s western edge. For locals, that likely translates to another easy weekend destination near the dunes and an affordable pint by the beach.
