SF Beer Week

Celebrator Anniversary Party 2010

February 16, 2010

The last big event during SF Beer Week was the Celebrator Beer News 22nd Anniversary Party, which was held at Trumer Brauerei in Berkeley, California. It felt good and appropriate being back in a brewery for the event, after two years in the cavernous Marriott Convention Center. There was a great turnout, all in a [...]

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Brewers Sunday Tea

February 15, 2010

Here’s how 21st Amendment described their Brewers Sunday Tea: What do Brewers do on Sunday? We drink tea. Yeah, right. Join us Sunday February 14th, from 11:30 until 3:30PM for Brewers Sunday Tea with beers from the 21st Amendment, Stone Brewing, Elysian Brewing and Dogfish Head. Fatted Calf will be serving up brats and sausages [...]

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Lagunitas Beerlesque

February 15, 2010

Last year, Lagunitas hosted one of the coolest events during SF Beer Week, the Beer Circus. It was a terrific event but this year because of its popularity they’re moving it to May as a stand-alone event that will be bigger than last year and also to take advantage of the better Spring weather. So [...]

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The Homebrew Chef’s Beer Dinner At Mercedes

February 14, 2010

Thursday night was the Sean Paxton — a.k.a. The Homebrew Chef — beer dinner at the Mercedes Hair of the Dog Cantina in San Francisco. A modest affair, at least in Homebrew Chef terms, it was a mere eight courses. The dinner was paired with almost all collaboration beers, from De Prouef and Firestone Walker. [...]

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Toronado Barley Wine Festival Results 2010

February 13, 2010

Here are the results from the 2010 Toronado Barley Wine Festival in San Francisco: 1st Place: Big Woody, Glacier Brewhouse 2nd Place: Abacus Blend, Firestone Walker 3rd Place: Old Gnarlywine 2008, Lagunitas Brewing Honorable Mention: ODB, Oskar Blues Brewing The other beers that reached the final round were AleSmith Old Numbskull, Alpine Brewing Great, Anchor [...]

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Hump Day SF Beer Week

February 12, 2010

Wednesday was hump day for SF Beer Week, falling smack dab in the middle of the ten days. Here’s some more photos from Day 6. Below are individual slideshows from several Wednesday events during SF Beer Week. They’re best viewed in full screen. To view it that way, after clicking on the arrow in the [...]

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The Great Cheese-Off Of 2010

February 11, 2010

Last night, the Bistro held its 2nd annual cheese-off, one of my favorite SF Beer Week events. Similar to last year, Bistro co-owner Vic Krajl picked four cheeses and then asked four breweries — Eel River, Mad River, Moylan’s and Sierra Nevada — to pick the beer they made that they felt was the best [...]

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The First 4 Days Of SF Beer Week

February 9, 2010

With four days under my belt for SF Beer Week, I’m now behind in everything except having a great time. I thought before I get even more behind that I’d share some of photos from the first few days, which in order to get up quicker are just below in their individual slideshows from Flickr. [...]

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One Chef, 8 Courses, 2 Breweries, 9 Beers and You?

February 8, 2010

This Thursday, the Homebrew Chef, Sean Paxton, will host another of his legendary beer dinners at Mercedes in San Francisco. It’s an eight-course dinner. The cost is $98, and that includes all food, beer and gratuity. There’s limited seating, so snap up your tickets now. This should be a good one. It will feature the [...]

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Bistro Double IPA Winners 2010

February 6, 2010

Pizza Port‘s Welcome Back Wipeout IPA was chosen best in show at the 10th annual Double IPA Festival today at the Bistro in Hayward, California. That’s the second year in a row that a Pizza Port beer has won. The full winner’s list is below. 1st Place: Welcome Back Wipeout IPA, Pizza Port Brewing 2nd [...]

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SF Beer Week Begins!

February 6, 2010

Last night, SF Beer Week officially kicked-off at the Opening Gala held at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. It was a great event, with big kudos to Meg Gill, Rich Higgins and Dave McLean (among many others) for pulling it off in such grand fashion. It was a fun time seeing so many friends, [...]

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The Calm Before The Storm

February 4, 2010

In case you’ve been living under a rock, SF Beer Week starts tomorrow. It feels like we’ve been working around the clock — and in the case of a few that’s literally true — to get this party started. I can hardly believe it myself. We’re past 200 events at this point, and all of [...]

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Tune In Tomorrow

January 29, 2010

If you live in the Bay Area and have nothing going on tomorrow morning (or have Tivo), I’ll be on television in the early morning to promote SF Beer Week. It will air around 8:45 during the three-hour KRON 4 Weekend Show that’s on from 7:00-10:00 a.m. The exact time will depend on how the [...]

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Shaun O'Sullivan's Ken Kesey Tribute To Bll Brand

March 3, 2009

A number of people have expressed regret at not having heard Shaun O’Sullivan’s Ken Kesey-ian rant in tribute to Bill Brand at the memorial the beer community had for him on Sunday at The Trappist in Oakland. I did manage to capture the last third to a half of it on video, so you can [...]

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Barley Wine Festival Video

February 17, 2009

If you were at the Toronado Barleywine Festival on Saturday, perhaps you noticed a guy walking around shooting video. That person was Steve Atkinson, and he’s put up a pretty cool six-minute video of the festival and judging. You can watch it below.   2009 San Francisco Barley Wine Festival from Steve Atkinson on Vimeo. [...]

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Best of the West Fest

February 16, 2009

The final event of SF Beer Week was the Best of the West Fest, put on by the Celebrator Beer News. It was held at the Oakland Convention Center at the Marriott Hotel in downtown Oakland, the same venue where the National Homebrewers Conference will be held later this year. Instead of an anniversary party, [...]

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