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If you’ve strolled Downtown Bakersfield lately, you’ve seen the buzz at Centro Cali Brewing (716 19th Street). The brewery-restaurant runs daily hours (Mon–Thu 11 a.m.–9 p.m.; Fri–Sat 11 a.m.–10 p.m.; Sun 11 a.m.–9 p.m.) and pitches itself as a neighborhood spot for craft beer, cocktails, and elevated comfort food—part scratch kitchen, part community hangout.
Owner James Tyson frames the concept as “everything in-house,” from hand‑pressed juices and a chef-driven menu to beer brewed on site. After a spring soft-launch, Centro Cali is building toward a patio and a banquet room for up to 100 guests. The brewhouse began with six house beers and aims to fill all 12 taps as production scales—an incremental, quality-first ramp-up…