Most people who walk into the newest Barebottle Brewing Company taproom in Walnut Creek say the same thing to co-founder Michael Seitz.

“I grew up going here as a kid, I love this place and I’m so grateful you’re here,” they’ll tell him.

Barebottle opened the brewery’s first East Bay location last month, taking over a space that’s been vacated for the better part of a decade, formerly the home of the beloved Pinky’s Pizza. Pinky’s had been there for 46 years until it closed in 2008. It reopened a few years later in a new location across town.

“We’ve got a picture from the original Pinky’s hanging in the taproom,” Seitz said. “It was given to us by the people who currently run Pinky’s.”

To honor Pinky’s, Barebottle is selling pizza made by San Francisco’s Joyride. The pizza has been so

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