Status Check: Finding New Roots
by Graham Womack | Comstock’s
When the first shutdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic found some people marooned at home, Peter Hoey and Rob Archie found themselves in the dish pit.
Hoey and Archie are co-owners of Urban Roots Brewery & Smokehouse on V Street in Sacramento. In normal times, Archie oversees the kitchen and front-of-house operations, while Hoey heads up brewing. They own the kind of place where, in non-pandemic times, a person might gather with strangers at a shared table, drinking Czech-style lager and eating smoked brisket.