“What we’re gonna do right here is go back, way back, back into time” from “Troglodyte” by The Jimmy Castor Bunch
Well, we aren’t going that far back for some of us longtimers, just four decades to 1981 and highlighting events from Vacaville.
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Left: An old Red Nectar Ale label; Right: A current Humboldt Brewing Company logo
Longtime local beer drinkers are sure to be familiar with Red Nectar Ale, the at-one-time locally produced flagship brand of Humboldt Brewing Company that has passed through the hands of a few corporations and brewers since the rights to both the beer and brewery names were sold off, back in 2005. Well, thanks to a COVID-era deal inked by HumBrews owner Andy Ardell and his brother David, both Red Nectar and the Humboldt Brewing Company moniker have come homeboldt. Raise a glass, y’all.
“Yeah, it just kind of stumbled upon us,” Ardell told the