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Beer Birthday: Andy French

June 25, 2025 By Jay Brooks

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Today would have been the 57th birthday of Andy French, former brewmaster at Southern Pacific Brewing in San Francisco, one of the new wave of breweries that opened in the city a few years ago, but unfortunately he past away in late summer 2023. . I first met Andy when he brewed at Speakeasy, and after that would see him from time to time at Zeitgeist, though he first started brewing back East in the DC area. When his roommate Chris Lawrence, who also worked for Speakeasy once upon a time, decided to open his own brewery, he tapped Andy to work the mash paddles, and things had been going great since they opened a few years ago, though I’d heard Andy was now back doing shifts at Zeitgeist before learning of his untimely passing. Join me in raising a toast to Andy.

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Andy at his brewhouse in 2012.
The back bar at Rio Nido Roadhouse was recently named Frenchy’s in his honor with a new sign and plenty of friends in attendance to christen it. [Thanks to Mario Rubio for the photo.]

Filed Under: Birthdays Tagged With: Bay Area, California, San Francisco



Comments

  1. Steve says

    June 25, 2017 at 7:31 pm

    Andy hasn’t been at Southern Pacific for quite a while. Joe Smith is the brewer there. I believe Andy still pulls shifts at Zeitgeist

  2. Alec Moss says

    June 26, 2018 at 3:23 pm

    Andy? 50? I don’t believe it. To me Andy will always be a feisty 25 year old.

    Happy Birthday Andy.

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