Today is the 58th birthday of Forest Gray, co-founder and former president of Speakeasy Ales and Lagers in San Francisco. I first met Forest when Speakeasy first bottled their beer when I was the beer buyer at BevMo. For the last many years, his brewery has made some terrific beers, especially their Big Daddy I.P.A., although since 2017, the brewery has a new owner and I’m not sure how Forest is spending his time these days. Join me in wishing Forest a very happy birthday.
Long live Big Daddy, & belated thanks to he & his fellow proprietors for letting the San Andeas Malts use their space (including the original just off of 3rd St) for meetingsin the eraly 90’s &, later, @ the current Evans St site, stashing/holding prelims for the State Comp that we ran until everyone involved forever kinda burned out & it flipped over to NCHA.