Portfolio - Deano Writes

The following are the freelance and other writing pieces I’m most proud of, sorted into 4 categories — paid work, books, columns, and blog posts. Enjoy, and if you’d like me to write for you, please contact me!

Paid Writing

The Keeper of Richmond's History: She’s run the light station, a WWII warship and a century-old inn.

Local News Matters, May 27, 2022

How anti-Asian racism proved deadly at the 19th century Hercules dynamite plant

Local News Matters, December 27, 2021

The Function of a Coolship in Brewing Wild Ales

The Beer Connoisseur, November 2, 2020

Heisler Beer in Hollywood: TV and Film's Most Famous Beer

The Beer Connoisseur, November 9, 2021

The Impact of COVID-19 on 3 California Breweries

The Beer Connoisseur, July 6, 2020

Books

Beer Places: The Microgeographies of Craft Beer

Contributed chapter “Postcard from Alameda.” The University of Arkansas Press, March 2023.

Columns

Columns from the Pinole-Hercules Patch

A complete listing of columns I wrote for the Pinole-Hercules Patch, 2011-13.

Herculean Days: Let's Go Shopping

One of a series of columns I wrote for the Hercules Express, 2013-15.

Posts

Purging My Demons — The History of Rodeo’s Rio Theatre

Deano Writes, March 9, 2025

Seismic Brewing: It’s the Water, and a Whole Lot More

Deano Writes, February 4, 2018

The Pilgrimage — Russian River Brewing, Windsor, CA

Deano Writes, June 30, 2019

Brother Helping Brother: A Brewery Offers a Ray of Hope to a Lighthouse

Deano Writes, June 19, 2021