Brian Yaeger is the author of Red, White, and Brew: An American Beer Odyssey (St. Martin's). He lives/homebrews in San Francisco where he explores Bay Area pubs, one pint at a time. Contact him at brian@beerodyssey.com.
Another year, another Great American Beer Festival. The three-day celebration of American craft beer played out in front of a sold-out crowd of 49,000 who nearly polished off every ounce of the 2,200-plus beers supplied...
The Jug Shop is renowned for its stellar beer tasting events which are organized by brewery, style, region, or anything beer manager Eric Cripe gets in his suds-soaked head. And oh yeah, they also do wine tasting for those...
Belgian Beer Fest. Come hungry. Designed by Damian Fagan Granted, $300 is a lot of money, and a seemingly incomprehensible amount to spend on dinner and beer. But a friend just spent that much to see Phish (for the umpteenth...
Saturday, San Francisco's second packaging brewery, Speakeasy Ales & Lagers, celebrated its 13th anniversary with a big ol' party from 2-7 p.m. The crew down in Bayview-Hunter's Point tapped their anniversary...
Zane Lamprey seems like a really cool guy with, arguably, the single greatest job in the world: he travels said world in search of native drinks in all forms as well as their convivial drinking customs AND he does this...
A friend emailed me a two word question, "Sierra Nevada?" along with a Bloomberg story about the large Japanese brewery, Sapporo. The multinational is intent on acquiring an American beer brand (or two) because their US sales, unlike...
CBS' The Early Show on Saturday Morning proclaimed the "five best beers in America" are:
Widmer Hefeweizen
Full Sail Session Lager
Deschutes Green Lakes Ale
BridgePort IPA
Rogue Dead Guy Ale
Five very best beers in America...
Last year, the National Homebrewers Conference organized by the American Homebrewers Association took place here in Oakland where West Coast style hoppy ales and our very own California Common were well represented. This year, it moved to the...
San Francisco is riddled with that helpful, informative resource known as the beer blog, but how about a resource that doesn't tell you about some new beer the blogger is geeking on but where to actually find that...
News broke yesterday that Dean Biersch, who co-founded Gordon-Biersch with his amicable former parter Dan Gordon, in 1988, plans to launch a second location of his popular HopMonk Tavern which first opened in Sebastopol a little over two...