Beer Festivals

Brews On The Bay This Weekend

September 8, 2010

This weekend, September 11 & 12, the 7th annual Brews on the Bay beer festival will take place aboard the S.S. Jeremiah O’Brien anchored off Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco. It’s put on by the San Francisco Brewers Guild. Tickets are $45 in advance, and may be purchased online. At the door, tickets are $55. [...]

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Head to Head Video: U.S. Versus U.K. Beer

August 13, 2010

Marketwatch recently had a fun little video from the Great British Beer Festival about “U.S. independent beer brewers outpac[ing] their U.K. cousins and gain[ing] market share.” Interviewed in the video are UK beer writer Pete brown and also Bob Pease, COO of the Brewers Association.

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Bistro IPA Festival Winners 2010

August 7, 2010

Rodger Davis’ IPAX IPA, from Triple Rock in Berkeley, California, was chosen best in show at the 13th annual IPA Festival earlier today at the Bistro in Hayward, California. The full list of winners is below. 1st Place: IPAX IPA (Triple Rock) 2nd Place: Chico IPA (Sierra nevada Brewing) 3rd Place: West Coast IPA (Green [...]

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Win Tickets To The SF Giants Brewfest Saturday

May 25, 2010

Come join me and my family this Saturday for the inaugural San Francisco Giants Brewfest at the ballpark, sponsored in part by the San Francisco Brewers Guild. All seven brewery members (Beach Chalet, 21st Amendment, Thirsty Bear, Social Kitchen Brewery, Magnolia Pub, Speakeasy & Gordon Biersch) will be pouring their beer from 3:00 to 6:00 [...]

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Beer In Art #76: Neal Barbosa’s Lagunitas Dog

May 16, 2010

Today’s works of art is by a very fast painter, Neal Barbosa, who bills himself as the performance painter and the live painter. I first saw his work at last year’s Lagunitas Beer Circus, which was held again today at the Lagunitas Brewery. Barbosa was there again, outside near the stage, painting to music, the [...]

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The Beer Circus Is Coming To Town

May 6, 2010

If you missed last year’s Lagunitas Beer Circus, you missed one of the most amazing spectacles involving beer I’ve ever had the pleasure of attending. It was so good, they’ve moved it to May for the better weather and because it deserves its own time slot. Tickets are now on sale for the 2nd annual [...]

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New Oakland Beer Fest This Weekend

April 29, 2010

A new Bay Area beer festival will be held this Saturday, May 1, from Noon to 3:00 p.m., at Jack London Square. It’s sponsored by the local radio station KGO. It will be called the Craft Beer and Fine Food Celebration and will a benefit for the Alameda County Food Bank. Tickets are $20 in [...]

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Women In Brewing Festival This Saturday In Sacramento

April 21, 2010

This Saturday, April 24, another festival will be taking place in Sacramento. If yo happen to be up that way — or live nearby, of course — check out the 4th annual Women in Brewing Festival at Rubicon. Here’s the info, from Rubicon’s blog: In 2007 the Rubicon Brewing Company established the Women in Brewing [...]

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Bay Area Firkin Fest This Weekend

April 21, 2010

This Saturday, April 24, the 7th annual Bay Area Firkin Fest will be held at Triple Rock Brewery in Berkeley. Doors will open at 11:00 a.m. and tickets are $20. Admission includes a commemorative logo glass and six 4-oz. pours. Additional samples may be purchased for $2 each (or 3 for $5). This is one [...]

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Hard Liver 2010

March 23, 2010

On Saturday, the 8th annual Hard Liver Barleywine Fest began at Brouwer’s Cafe in Seattle, Washington. People started queuing in line at 9:00 a.m. for the eleven o’clock opening and the line ran up Phinney almost to 36th Street. There were 50 different barley wines and 12 more different vintages for a total of 62 [...]

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Hard Liver Barleywine Fest Winners 2010

March 20, 2010

Here are the results from the 2010 Hard Liver Barleywine Fest in held at Brouwer’s Cafe in Seattle, Washington: 1st Place: Old Woody ’09; Glacier Brewhouse 2nd Place: Old Blue Hair ’08; Big Sky Brewing 3rd Place: Old Sebastes ’09; Anacortes Brewery Honorable Mention: Abacus; Firestone Walker Brewing Congratulations to all the winners.

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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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Tony Sings The Blues

January 31, 2010

Another highlight of The Brewing Network’s Winter Brews Festival, held yesterday at Linden Street Brewery in Oakland, was the music. There were some terrific bands playing. But my favorite was, as usual, the down home blues stylings of Tony Magee, owner of Lagunitas Brewing. He taught himself to play just a few years ago and [...]

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Brewing Network Announces Winter Beer Fest

December 16, 2009

The Brewing Network has just announced their first beer festival next month. It’s going to be a Winter Brews Festival and will take place January 30, 2010 from 1:00 to 8:00 p.m. The event will be held at the Linden Street Brewery in Oakland. From the press release: While Bay Area residents commiserate in a [...]

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First Bay Area Holiday Fest A Good Start

November 18, 2009

Last Sunday, my old company, Beverages & more, where once upon a time I was the beer buyer for almost five years, hosted the first holiday beer fest in the Bay Area. Dubbed the BevMo Holiday Beerfest, it was organized by local beer festival promoter Jeff Moses, who also does the Monterey Beer Festival, among [...]

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