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Maiden Voyage to Elizabeth Street Brewing

Elizabeth Street Brewing is the brain-child of a family in Noe Valley. I’ve posted on it before but – long story short – it is a very generous and ingenious way of the Brewer-Hay family sharing their passion for brewing and a unique, socially driven method of realizing their dream of eventually opening a proper [...]

Beer By BART

Never again, the scourge of the designated driver!

A brewpub in planning

A guy brews beer in his home, makes it available to anyone who cares to partake, for absolutely no charge and I don’t know about it?

The Elizabeth Street Brewery

The residence of Alyson and Richard Brewer-Hay opens up as a free pub periodically. The family has plans to open an honest to goodness brew-pub in the future.

A More Expensive Habit

A Hop in a Hallertau hop yard
A hop shortage is driving up prices of a very important ingredient in the production beer.
Don’t know what a hop is?. Wikipedia to the rescue.

Hop Trip

Hop Trip by Deschutes & the valley that supplies the goods
The Deschutes Brewery in Bend, Oregon is one of my favorites. The beers they produce are marked by their clean flavors and balanced malt and hop profile. Hop Trip is now one of my favorite brews from one of my favorite breweries.
Another in The Deschutes [...]

Theyyyyrrrre Baaaaack…

First the screw top, now this.
What’s a gourmand to do when all the familiar signals are crossed? What’s next, high quality canned coffee?

Gulp!

I will willingly drink any goddamned concoction the Deschutes Brewery puts into bottles
Amen to that!
via The Morning News‘ “Cracking open the fridge on a sweltering August day“, inspired by Daring Fireball

Remembering Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson, author of Michael Jackson’s Beer Companion: 1942-2007.
Rest in peace. You have freed many an interested beer drinker from the tyranny of industrio-beer and in the process opened the eyes of the same people to a wider world of gastronomic pleasure. As John Gruber says: “Beers in his [...]


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