How do you get into Gilman Brewing Company, Pleasanton Speakeasy: Craft Cocktails, Brewery.?
We have not confirmed it. Gilman Brewing Company, Pleasanton Speakeasy: Craft Cocktails, Brewery. is in the directory because it calls itself a speakeasy, and that is the whole of what we can stand behind about its door.
The drinks at Gilman Brewing Company, Pleasanton Speakeasy: Craft Cocktails, Brewery.
How the venue describes itself: “Since 2015 we have been cranking out trustworthy, dependable beers from our West Berkeley Brewery & Taproom. You can now visit our taprooms in Berkeley, Daly City, or Pleasanton (and soon in Santa Cruz!) where you’ll find our award winning Gilman beers, wood fired pizzas, snacks, large plates, and no BS.” (from its own website, retrieved 9 October 2026)
Beyond what the venue publishes we have not verified a list, so what follows is the period rather than the bar: Sazerac, Ward Eight, and Scofflaw are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Gilman Brewing Company, Pleasanton Speakeasy: Craft Cocktails, Brewery. sits
Gilman Brewing Company, Pleasanton Speakeasy: Craft Cocktails, Brewery. is in Pleasanton, California, in Alameda County, in the West of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Pleasanton. If you know another, tell us.
California holds 173 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our California speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in California
California came under national prohibition on 17 January 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment took effect and the Volstead Act defined an intoxicating beverage as anything above one half of one per cent alcohol — a threshold strict enough to close breweries that had expected to survive.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in California.
What the newspapers recorded in California
Searching the Library of Congress run of California newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from California:
- La prensa, March 6, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Imperial Valley press, June 14, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Imperial Valley press, October 18, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Imperial Valley press, November 5, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
Hours published by the venue:
- Friday 12pm – 10pm
- Friday 12pm – 9pm
- Monday 12pm – 9pm
- Saturday 12pm – 10pm
- Saturday 12pm – 9pm
- Sunday 10am – 9pm
- Sunday 12pm – 9pm
- Thursday 12pm – 9pm
Hours as published on the venue’s own site, retrieved 9 October 2026.
You can reach Gilman Brewing Company, Pleasanton Speakeasy: Craft Cocktails, Brewery. by phone on (530) 709-0325, through its own website, and on Instagram, Facebook, and X.
The address is 706 Main St, Pleasanton, CA 94566-6067. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Gilman Brewing Company, Pleasanton Speakeasy: Craft Cocktails, Brewery. we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, and opening hours. We do not yet hold a published drinks list, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name calls it a speakeasy.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a brewery.