Its site is Instagram-worthy. But how's the beer at Urban Roots?

by Daniel Barnes / Sacramento Bee

After ten years of dreaming, two years of permitting and construction, several weeks of brewing and a packed schedule of Sacramento Beer Week-related events, Rob Archie and Peter Hoey finally opened Urban Roots Brewing & Smokehouse on May 19.

With the Urban Roots hype train building up steam for the last year, beer and BBQ fans turned out in droves. The kitchen put out more than 1,300 plates of food on opening day.

"It was a better response from the community than we could have imagined," said Hoey, a local brewing legend best known as the former brewmaster at Sacramento Brewing Co. and co-owner of the short-lived Odanata. "You make all these plans and you build a space like this and you hope that people like it, and I'm just overjoyed that it seems to be resonating with folks."

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