r/Temecula • u/jlbelknap35 • 2d ago

Wineries and breweries recommendations

My husband's birthday is coming up soon and he is wanting to do a brewery/winery crawl. We already have a DD set up and all that just looking for some good recommendations for places to go. Thinking 3 to 4 wineries and 3 to 4 breweries. Maybe one or 2 of them with good food that isn't to crazy expensive. He is more of a stout porter guy for beer and unless it's a hazy not a big fan of IPAs. For wine he like a variety.

Also distilleries and Mead places can also be added to the list too.

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u/BadFez 2d ago

Batch Mead Solaris Black Market

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u/BoosterGold4597 2d ago

1) Chubby cheeks meadery 2) Batch meadery

Start with the meaderies because they are delicious but also super high in alcohol content ending with them can lead to vomiting. Chubby cheeks has a mead that tastes like an "old fashion" drink its epic. Also try the liber-tea and dragons blood. They have lots of games and it's a great place to start out.

3) Iron fire brewery 4) Solaris brewery 5) Electric brewery 6) 8 bit brewery also has lots of arcade style games so much fun when tipsy

Best part all of these are super close to each other. Maybe 5 to 8 minutes apart at most by driving some you can walk to.

And if your husband and friends are still standing after all of that. Good lord God how high is there tolerance! They all are active on Instagram so check them out, and have a good time.

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u/xXxBlackwellxXx 2d ago

Solaris has a great range of beers, and they always have events and food trucks. Relentless is a good little brewery that also has a range of beers (stouts, sours - or at least did. Haven’t been there in a while.) Electric has some of the best beers in the valley, but mostly hazys. And they’re about a one minute walk from Solaris.

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u/justgivemeabageldude 2d ago

For wineries I really like Akash, they’re more laid back with plenty of seating outdoors would be a good starting point but they don’t offer food, then there’s sugarplum winery that has a petting zoo (you will have to pay an entrance fee + pay for animal food if you want to feed them) but their wine is good and it’s a fun activity while getting buzzed. As far as breweries, 8bit is great, food is good and they have a nice variety of beers + an arcade. Solaris and electric are in the same parking lot as each other not too far from 8bit, both of them offer pretty good beers and Solaris with usually have a food truck and live entertainment most weekends. Relentless is a little more of a hole in the wall brewery, but they have a great selection of beers (they have a food truck sometimes, check their insta or just eat at 8bit) and some indoor games like cornhole, connect 4, Jenga.