Sunnyvale’s ShaKa Brewing closes down

ShaKa Brewing, a small, locally-focused brewery in Sunnyvale, shuttered last month for financial reasons, according to an Instagram announcement.

“We didn’t make this decision lightly, but the reality is that the business is just not financially viable from an ongoing operational standpoint,” the brewery’s owners said on the social media platform July 1. Their last day was July 20.

The brewery, which opened in late 2020, was founded by two longtime homebrewers, Shawn Ellis and Karl Townsend...