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Beer Birthday: Richard Brewer-Hay

October 27, 2015 By Jay Brooks

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Today is the 40th birthday of Richard Brewer-Hay, co-founder (with his wife Allie) and brewer of San Francisco’s smallest almost brewery: the Elizabeth Street Brewery. Despite its size (it’s really more of a nanobrewery or even a picobrewery) and intermittent schedule, it was named three years ago by SF Weekly as San Francisco’s Best Microbrewery 2010. I thought I had a photo of Richard and Allie from when I ran into them at the Map Room in Chicago during CBC a few years ago, but I guess not. Instead, I purloined the photos below from Facebook. Join me in wishing Richard a very happy birthday.

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Given it was Richard’s tweet from the World Series that reminded me it was his birthday, here’s him at the first game of the World Series two years ago.

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A self-portrait with his wife, Allie, in the Cascades in Washington a few years ago.

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With Jabber the Parrot at eBay On Location in San Jose.

Below is a very, very short video I captured of Richard and Nico Freccia, from 21st Amendment, accepting their World Beer Cup award for the beer Richard and Shaun O’Sullivan made at 21A in Chicago.

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Comments

  1. Nathan Smith says

    October 28, 2010 at 11:36 am

    Richard, Happy Birthday! Cheers,

  2. David H says

    October 27, 2012 at 10:43 am

    The Coolest Guy I Know. Cheers, Buddy.

  3. Brian Y says

    October 27, 2012 at 3:12 pm

    There’s only one thing I know he wants for his b-day today! To go up three-nada in the World Series. Go Giants/Happy B-day Richard.

  4. Craig Chan says

    October 27, 2012 at 4:36 pm

    Happy Birthday, Richard! I know you’ll be rooting for our SF Giants from the 21A!

    Cheers my friend!

  5. Daniel Del Grande says

    October 28, 2013 at 2:51 pm

    Hoppy Birthday, Richard.

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