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What’s On Tap

  1. About those beer books by Sam Calagione of Dogfish Head - Promises, promised. In my column today (Oakland Tribune/Contra Costa Times) about Dodfish Head 90-Minute IPA, I promised I’d post a roundup of Dogfish founder Sam Calagione’s books.  And I will, honest. But in a few hours.
  2. Beer and chocolate, Abyss at the Toronado and more… - Somehow this week has sped by with me on the sidelines. Things are happing in the Bay Area beer world: Events: Tonight, Wednesday, Dec. 3.,  Deschutes “Abyss” Night, Toronado, 547 Haight St., San Francisco. 6 p.m. until closing. No admission, pay for your beer. Abyss Imperial Stout ‘08, the stony, blended, barrel-aged beast, will be on [...]
  3. Tapping “Beerly Legal Lager” at 21st Amendment in San Francisco - Photos: Top - Shaun O’Sullivan hoists a glass of Beerly Legal Lager. Below: Shaun taps the first keg. At 75 cents a glass, the keg was emptied in an hour. Photos by Jeff Scott. A merry, if  not overflowing crowd was on hand  shortly after 5 p.m. this evening (Dec.1, 2008)  at 21st Amendment in San [...]
  4. Christmas beers: An early tasting… - This column appeared in the San Jose Mercury News last Wednesday. Thought putting it on the blog would be a good way to lurch er-launch the holiday season. My big question is, what have I left off. Let’s build a super holiday beer list. Post your comment below. Let’s talk. By William Brand for the Mercury [...]

Hedonist Beer Jive

  1. TWO BROTHERS KNOCK ANOTHER ONE OVER THE WALL
  2. A TALE OF TWO BAAAAD IPA’S
  3. 2008 SIERRA NEVADA CELEBRATION ALE IS HERE
  4. LAGER, BEGONE: LEFT HAND’S “RYE BOCK LAGER”

Brookston Beer Bulletin

  1. Sapporo’s Space Beer Almost Ready For Tasting - Back in May I mentioned that Sapporo Breweries was “planning to brew a beer made from barley descended from seeds grown in space, specifically in the Russian section of the International Space Station two years ago.” Back then I wrote. According to Reuters, Sapporo said in a statement. “By pursuing the infinite possibility that space has, [...]
  2. Craft Beer in the Funny Papers - My friend Pete Slosberg noticed something different in a comic strip and sent it to me yesterday. It’s a recent Non Sequitur cartoon by Wiley Miller. Read it all the way down the last panel. Go ahead, I’ll wait. Meet you at the end.   That’s the first I know of a craft beer being mentioned in [...]
  3. New Oregon Brewery Opens - In case you missed this, a new brewery opened yesterday in Gresham, Oregon. The 4th Street Brewery will have five regular beers on tap, including Gresham Light, Demented Duck Amber, Black Roots Blonde, Powell Porter, and Eager Beaver IPA. John Foyston had the story in the Oregonian.     time savedtime savedIf you enjoyed this post or the [...]
  4. Saving British Pubs - I don’t know who Neil Hamilton is, apart from a former British Member of Parliament — a hardcore Thatcherite Conservative — who’s been embroiled in one scandal after another for many years. He doesn’t appear to be the sort of politician I’d normally side with; he even once “strongly” supported lead in gasoline and opposed [...]

Beer by BART

  1. National Homebrewers converge on Oakland?s 12th St station for NHC 2009 - Imagine taking BART to the National Homebrewer’s Conference. This will be possible June 18-20 2009. It’s a great opportunity for brewers, lapsed brewers or those who simply love good beer to check out the state of elite homebrewing, and to learn more about the craft. You could sign up now, and [...]
  2. There?s NO festival like the Bistro?s barrel aged festival - Saturday at The Bistro in Hayward, California, the 2008 Barrel Aged Festival arrived like a cherished holiday. What can you say when you start out with Lost Abbey Angel’s Share 06 because it’s by the door, and then beeline for some of the smaller breweries, such as the always interesting Valley Brewing of Stockton. [...]
  3. Moonlight hop harvest - Where do fresh hopped beers come from? In the case of the elegant beers of Moonlight Brewing, these seasonal delights come from hand-picked estate-grown hops, added raw and fresh to fermenting beers. Brian Hunt’s Moonlight beers have always been one of the indicators for us of places in the San Francisco Bay Area that [...]
  4. San Francisco Beer Week - February is all about beer in San Francisco, with the Beerapalooza events loosely coordinated by The Celebrator (our excellent indigenous beer magazine) and the Strong Beer Month events coordinated by S.F. Brewpubs Magnolia, 21st Amendment and some years Thristy Bear. This year, the heart of what a lot of us consider to be Beer [...]