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I’ve been totally delinquent about covering Seattle, and for no particular reason. I wasn’t busy, I was just being lazy, and now I’ve got a weeks worth of beer to wrap up. I’m going to try to keep things snappy though, because I’ve got moving boxes calling my name, waiting to be filled.
Here’s a quick [...]
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Saturday at GABF is truly a marathon, and when we woke up the next day, any thoughts of heading out to Boulder were shot. My liver was pleading with me to give it a break, and so I did.
The day, as mentioned in the title, had the biggest ups and downs of the whole festival. [...]
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I should be writing my final GABF post, but instead I got really caught up in this idea of making a map of all of the beer places we’ve visited. So here it is: Map!
The page that the link above connects to should explain most of what little there is to know about the map, [...]
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Well, GABF is over and all I know is that at the end of the night last night my face hurt from smiling so big for so long. I remember saying at one point last night that this was the best beer day in my life ever. But then I immediately realized that I think [...]
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It’s finally here! GABF! My sister and I have been waiting for this for 6 months now and I’ve been so excited and antsy the last few days that I’ve started taking it out on her as if we’re still two children trapped in the backseat of a car on a long drive. Most notably, [...]
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[Disclaimer - this was written two days ago and should have posted on Wednesday, but I didn't get it up on the site before hopping on my plane to Denver and have been internetless ever since... until I found this Starbucks]
I’m about to fly to Denver for the Great American Beer Festival, but before I [...]
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I’ve been such a procrastinator this week, and now I still owe you a post about last Sunday (8 days ago!) from Portland. To be sure, I’ve had real things to get done in the interim. I’m starting a new job soon that will require moving and having a car. I’m not being intentionally secretive, [...]
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Saturday morning came bright and early, awfully early considering my Friday afternoon through evening in Portland. We stopped by Milo’s City Cafe for a quick breakfast and I got cheddar and Italian sausage-stuffed french toast. How incredible of an idea is that? Stuffing meat and cheese in the french toast! I’m always torn between savory [...]
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Greetings from Beervana (aka Portland)! I’m here for the weekend with my sister and Melissa (of new-found cider fame). In fact, I may or may not have a pretty convoluted itinerary ahead of me. The original plan was to drive from SF to LA, fly from LA to Portland, hitch a ride with Allie and [...]
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As I mentioned in my post about NCHF, I have a massive cider and cyser project underway. For those who don’t know, cyser is apple-mead, basically a cross between cider and honeywine. The inspiration for this project is my friend Melissa who loves cider and used to hate beer. For a long time, this was [...]
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On this site, I usually like to stick to talking about beer. Sure, there are huge digressions about the context in which I drink beer or the people I meet along the way, but generally I try to make sure that beer or beer-related activities of some kind are the focus. I’ve never wanted to [...]
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10:52
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I have just returned from the Northern California Homebrewers Festival (NCHF from here on out) and I hardly know where to start. I wish I could have blogged while there so I wouldn’t have such a mountain of things pent up to write about, but as there was neither internet nor power outlets at the [...]
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12:47
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Welcome back! I’m sorry for the unscheduled hiatus from blogging for the past week. I’ve been busy in the interim with continuing the search for the right beer job, planning the next event in the monthly tasting series (more details on that in my next post), and taking the GMAT. Apparently, it is recommended that [...]
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Beer at breakfast, actually just brunch really, is something I’ve long advocated. My two best memories of brunch beers are:
Sipping a Deschutes Obsidian Stout on a sunny morning on the back patio of a restaurant Ashland, OR, amidst the hubbub of the [...]
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We’ve just published a new page on this site that we’re very excited about and hope you will all find useful.
It’s an Events Calendar meant to make it easier to keep track of what’s going on. The inspiration for this came about this summer when beer festivals, brewers nights, and beer dinners were pouring in [...]
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I originally started drinking craft beer because it just plain tasted better. It still does, but now there are other reasons to drink craft beer that are at least as important to me. I like the do-it-yourself aesthetic of the beers, preserving a traditional craft, lest all beermaking become impersonal and mechanized, and [...]
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12:38
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I’ve posted about many a beer drinking festival here before, but I believe this is the first time I’m posting about a beer brewing festival. Of course, every festival is a beer brewing festival for professional brewers, in attendance to share and promote their beers, but I’m talking about festivals you and me, the enthusiasts. [...]
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Beer of the Week is something I like to pull out every once in a while around here when something impresses me enough, for whatever reason, that it deserves a column of its own. There are lots of fabulous beers that never get named Beer of the Week, and lots of weeks that never get [...]
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This past Sunday was the 5th installment of the Thirsty Hopster Tasting Series, and the first time we’ve partnered up with a local bar to enhance the experience. Initially, I thought ‘enhance the experience’ would just mean that everyone would be guaranteed a seat and there’d be no more discreetly hustling crates of beer [...]
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If you are at all interested in food culture or in eco-sustainability and the whole green movement, it’s hard to miss all the hubbub that has been brewing over the huge Slow Food Nation event in town this weekend. I won’t be able to make it, unfortunately, since I’ll be in LA for a wedding. [...]
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It’s been several days since the Marin Brewing Wood Aged Beer night at Toronado last Wednesday and the Firestone Night at City Beer Store last Thursday, but my homebrewing fiascos left me too worn out to write these up right away. I can’t let them slip by unnoticed though, as the mix of beers I [...]
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11:18
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Gail and I have been planning to homebrew together for months, but with both of our busy schedules, it just wasn’t possible… until yesterday! Now that I’ve got a little extra time on my hands and Gail was able to take a half-day off work, we resolved to get down to some serious business.
The [...]
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I spend the better part of my free time (by some accounts the better part of my waking hours) drinking beer and attending beer events. And yet, just when it seems like nothing will come along to top the last great festival, the last great dinner, or the last great pilgrimage to the brewery [...]
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Hi everyone,
I just wanted to update you all on the Belgian Fusion tasting I am organizing at The Trappist this Sunday, August 24th, from noon to 2pm.
There are a few spots left! So, if you want to come but thought you had missed your chance to get tickets, you’re in luck! Didn’t win those free [...]
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As someone who loves all things that come in matching sets (I once spent 5 hours at IKEA picking out a wardrobe because all the complimentary options were just too overwhelming), I am naturally a fan of split batches of beer. There’s no better way to understand yeast than to taste two beers that started [...]
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12:59
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Man! I have never seen a bottle-buying frenzy the likes of which was taking place at Toronado last night.
When I arrived at 10 minutes after 6pm, there were already guys at the bar with hordes of bottles lined up in front of them like bowling pins. As I sidled up to the end [...]
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12:43
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One of my goals now that I am ‘fun-employed’, so to speak, is to update the functionality of this website. There’s a lot more it could be doing right now that it’s just not. Most of all, I’d like to add a calendar function so that you all can more easily keep track [...]
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Say what you will about the, ahem, ‘customer service’ at Toronado (and I say plenty myself) but there’s no denying that they come back with the best beers from the best breweries week after week. You’d think maybe I’d had enough of Lost Abbey after visiting the brewery and buying bottles to take home and [...]
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If Italy was about not drinking beer (no beer for 4.5 days - I think that’s the longest I’ve gone in months!), then London was its opposite. We did little else but drink beer. That little else including walking by Buckingham Palace and trying to take a picture with a guard who, despite [...]
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Hi all,
I am sad to report that not only have I failed to find and drink any good beer here in Italy, but I don’t think I’ve even had any beer since arriving here. Though, given the first situation (no good beer), I can’t say I’m too disappointed about the second situation (no beer at [...]
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Welcome back, everyone. Sorry about the delay - I am traveling sans-laptop this time around and finding opportunities to blog has been difficult. I am in Florence, an hour away from heading into the Italian countryside for some wine tasting (I am a traitor, but sometimes when the family sets the agenda, wine wins out). [...]
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All right, you all have been asking about it, and I’m sorry I haven’t been able to answer individual emails until now, but here are the details:
I hold themed beer tastings once a month. So far, we’ve done a “Beer: 101″ course, a Belgian sour ale tasting, a saison & biere de garde tasting, and an [...]
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Our company retreat ran Wednesday through Friday this past week, in San Diego. This was incredibly fortunate for me, since it meant that I could visit SD with free airfare and free accommodations. As this was something I had wanted to do for a long time, I was psyched.
I stayed through the weekend on my [...]
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And so it’s over. After four full days in Tokyo (and Hakone) and a half day on either end, the Japan portion of this vacation has come to a close. My internet connection at the moment is too slow to embed the photos, but they can all be viewed here.
We had one more great beer experience, [...]
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[I've now added photos to the Kyoto posts and will add photos to this one tomorrow!]
When I last left the blog, I had nothing new to say about beer, and lots to say about monkeys. This time, I promise there’s plenty o’ beer and (somewhat sadly) no monkeys. If only I could have great beer [...]
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Warning to beer folk: there’s almost no mention of beer, or even sake, in this post. Much as I want to sample tons of beer while here, that may have to wait until I (A) have seen the basic sights so that don’t miss out on seeing Japan for all the beer, (B) can say [...]
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I’m not even sure what day or time it is anymore, but then again, I’m not sure I care either, because every hour here in Kyoto has brought something new and sugoi (awesome!).
[There are some photos for this page embedded in the pst below, but the rest (and there are nearly 300 of them, can [...]
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16:15
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Greetings from Japan! I’ve got a post coming up after this one about all things Kyoto (and it has been fantastic so far), but in my inbox were emails about two recent developments that I just can’t pass up sharing with you all.
First, California Beer Zine is up and running! This is exactly what it [...]
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12:14
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When Dogfish Head arrived in California a few months ago, I thought that would pretty much make my year. And I’m no less excited about DFH, but I just got my most recent online newsletter from Elysian and it’s got me feeling like we Californians the lotto twice in one year.
Elysian is coming to California!
The start [...]
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4:56
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This is the first of (hopefully) many posts from the road, as I wend my way around the world (well, some northern parts of it) in supremely inefficient fashion.
I’m in Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania, for my college roommate Kathryn’s wedding. It’s an odd feeling being here for the weekend, since she’s the first of the eight [...]
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As you may or may not have noticed, depending on how often you check in here, I haven’t posted since Thursday. This is the longest I’ve gone without posting since starting this blog, and I’m feeling completely guilty about it. The worst part is, I’m not going to be able to make it up to [...]
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This past Sunday was the 4th monthly installment of what I’ve started calling the Thirsty Hopster Tasting Series. It’s an idiosyncratic ramble through the variety of beer styles, heavily weighted towards those I like best myself because, well, if I’m going to put these on, I’m not going to waste any time on styles I’m [...]
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This is just a quick announcement to make sure all of those readers out there who are not members of the American Homebrewers Association know that as of today, you can buy tickets to the Great American Beer Festival.
What: The Great American Beer Festival is one of the very largest beer tasting festivals in [...]
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10:24
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I’ve been carrying the Millennium beer dinner around in my purse for almost a week now, so it’s high time I write it up. I realized exactly how incredible a job Eric (the chef) had done in picking beers for the dinner when I tried to list my favorites for a friend, and ended up [...]
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Bar Crudo is back with the next of their near-monthly beer dinners, and they have a fantastic theme this time: World Beers.
When thinking about great brewing nations, the places that usually come to mind (my mind at least) are Germany, Belgium, England and the US. Outside of those big four, things start to go downhill [...]
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Following last week’s Drake’s tasting, it seems like Toronado is on a roll. They’ve been running special tastings almost weekly.
This week, it’s New Belgium, and they are bringing their special release Belgian-style beers. This is especially exciting given that these beers are especially hard to find anywhere in California.
The line-up
Descriptions from New Belgium materials
Abbey Dubbel: [...]
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I know details on this month’s tasting event have been a long time coming, but here they are:
I hold themed beer tastings once a month at my apartment. So far, we’ve done a “Beer: 101″ course, covering one or two beers in each of about 10 different styles, a Belgian sour ale tasting, and a [...]
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I am so glad I made it to Drake’s Night at Toronado. I almost skipped it, what with book club that night (the book this last month was Lolita, and I didn’t want all those dirty looks I got while reading on the MUNI this past month to be for nothing), and this being my [...]
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Usually, all you ever hear about rice in beer is how the macrobrewers use it as an adjunct, along with corn, to lighten the body of their beers. When used broadly, an ‘adjunct’ refers to any ingredient other than water, malted grain, hops, and yeast added to a beer. However, in common use, the term [...]
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Just a quick announcement that the WABL Father’s Day Festival post from yesterday now has pictures.
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This is just a quick FYI that my beertinerary has expanded to include a Brewer’s Night at Toronado tomorrow.
Starting at 6:00pm on Wednesday, 6/18, Toronado is serving four special release Drake’s beers, plus some of the brewery’s regular brews.
Special releases: All being served tomorrow, the information below is all I have on what types of beers [...]
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Arrghh…It is killing me to write this again because I wrote 80% of this post last night, saved it, intending to finish it in the morning, and then when I got up the file was all corrupted and I couldn’t re-open it. There’s something to be said for being a certifiable tech geek if you’re [...]
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Q: What do you get if you mix one part food, three parts California beer, and 17,000 parts sunshine?
A: The Santa Rosa Beer Festival.
I bet some people would say they had fun at the festival despite the heat, but I come firmly down on the side of having had fun at the festival because of [...]
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Between the summer festival season and a “sabbatical” of sorts in August, there’s lots of good beer tasting to come. Here is a preview of where I will be:
June 7th — Santa Rosa Beer Festival — Santa Rosa, CA
June 14th & 15th — Washington Brewers Festival — Seattle, WA
June 21st & 22nd — Friend’s Wedding [...]
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Festival season is upon us, so I thought I’d take a moment to outline what’s going on in the Bay Area and where I am going to be. But first, a quick review of the event at The Toronado last night:
Yesterday was the La Fleurette Release Party. They had about eight Russian River beers on [...]
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I think it’s fair to say the saison & biere de garde tastings this weekend were a great success! Thank you so much to everyone who helped make these tastings happen:
Rami, Nate, & Dave at Healthy Spirits for helping me pick out beers and bringing over some very tasty hummus. See photo at right.: Rami, [...]
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[Warning - the beer part of this post comes at the very end, so feel free to skip ahead to the review of Firestone Walker Brewery, if that's all you're here for.]
Following our stay in Santa Fe, and after a brief air jaunt from the Albuquerque Sunport (I love that they call their airport a [...]
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A week ago today, I departed San Francisco on a much needed vacation. Unlike most of my other recent trips, this one was not supposed to revolve around beer. Now that my various beer enterprises (this blog, the tastings I host, the beer business ideas I bat around, etc.) consume on the order of 20 [...]
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I want to say thank you to everyone for being patient with me this last week. I generally try to write a new post every week day, but I’ve been on vacation for the last six days, and today is my first day back.
While I didn’t have a lot of time to write while on [...]
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There are a lot of people out there whose dedication to good beer amazes, impresses, or absolutely boggles me. Then there’s my sister who not only does all of the above, but delights me by tackling the beer world exactly way I wish I had thought to do.
Let me tell you a little bit about [...]
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Last night I ventured out to the new Magnolia for their ‘Grand Opening’ to check out the new menu and renovated restaurant space. Unfortunately, the restaurant was still closed, as you can see by the paper lining the windows in the photo to the left. A note posted on the door promised that they would [...]
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As you all may or may not know, Magnolia is definitely one of my five favorite restaurants in the city, and quite possibly my absolute favorite if I were forced to make a choice.
They have been closed for renovation for the last nine days to make some major changes not just to the space itself, [...]
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I got a question by email tonight from someone coming in to SF from out of town, who wanted to know where to get dinner while he was here. My go-to suggestion for these occasions is usually Magnolia, but this question came with a twist. He’d already been to all the brewpubs/microbreweries in town. Where [...]
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Hi Everyone,
So, nothing makes me happier than how overwhelmingly enthusiastic the response to the Saison Tasting event has been. For those who RSVP’d, if I haven’t gotten back to you personally yet it is because 40 people want to come (!) and I’m trying to figure out:
•(A) if there is any way I can make [...]
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It is beautiful outside so I may end up giving this event short shrift (sorry PBCers!), but I want to get it on the site before I forget about it.
On Friday, I skipped pre-Boontfest camping (probably a good move in retrospect, given the way Saturday night went) to attend a Presidio Brew Club BBQ at [...]
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So, apparently this week is the official ‘American Craft Beer Week’ nationwide. I’m not really sure what this means except that: (A) our Congress spent our tax dollars passing a resolution to this effect that is actually pretty hilarious, and (B) we’re all being encouraged to drink craft beer.
Well, I don’t know about you all, [...]
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Hi Everyone reading The Thirsty Hopster,
I’d like to invite you to my 3rd monthly beer tasting event.
I hold themed beer tastings once a month at my apartment. The March event was a “Beer: 101″ course, covering one or two beers in each of about 10 different styles. The April event was a Belgian [...]
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This beer dinner came at the tail end of a marathon week of beer events, so it’s no wonder that by the time the week was over I had been lulled into a near-comatose state of blogging laziness by all the good beer and good food. But, this Bar Crudo beer dinner was too great [...]
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So following the beer festival, several amazing feats were achieved:
(A) Dan got up at 5:00am and made it to his college geology field trip on time
(B) Allie, Melissa, and I got up and kept drinking beer
We were actually heading to Ace Cideryfor Melissa, who’s a reluctant beer fan, to make up for the overabundance of [...]
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What started as a simple plan to take in a few brews in the sunshine this weekend has morphed into something even better: A meet-up for Bay Area beer bloggers at the Boonville Beer Festival.
Sure, there will be lots of fun beer drinkers there to talk to, but given that I’ve had enough virtual conversations [...]
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[Read to end for pictures]
I think it’s safe to say that almost all of us who love craft beer want to see it succeed and thrive as an industry. We’re not really proud parents, unless we’re brewers ourselves, so maybe we’re proud aunts and uncles, but all the same, there’s a happy glow that we [...]
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This is somewhat of a cop-out post since it’s not really a write of any beer experience of mine, but I’ve had these links piling up that are worth sharing, so share them I will!
First is All About Beer Magazine’s list of “125 Places to Have a Beer Before you Die.” I thought I’d have [...]
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I wrote this back when the topic for this Session was first announced, but with the merger it seems particularly relevant now…
This is the first time I’ve participated in The Session, so I feel like a owe an explanation of the concept to those readers who don’t follow other beer blogs.
The Session is an exercise [...]
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The blogs and newstreams are buzzing with yesterday’s announcement that Magic Hat will buy Pyramid.
I’m not going to post the full press release here, and oddly enough it is not posted on the Pyramid site yet, even under the ‘Investor Info’ or ‘Company News: hot off the presses!” sections. Hmmm…If this isn’t investor info or [...]
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Normally I’d bemoan the fact that this new site has no coverage of SF, but BeerMenus already has so much hype going for it that I’m sure it’s only a matter of time before they make it out here.
It’s a Google Maps mash-up that allows you to search within NYC for:
A listing of bars that [...]
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I’m always looking for new restaurants to add to my list of ‘places with great beer in San Francisco’. And though I’m a lapsed vegetarian, I never thought I’d be adding a vegan place to the list. Vegan food is half the reason for my lapse: I wasn’t ready to make that commitment yet, but [...]
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I kicked off my post-Sour Ale Tasting morning with a brunch with the Urban Family group. Most of them had been at the tasting the night before, but no one looked too worse for the wear, which I guess means scaling the tasting back from 23 brews to 9 brews a night was a very [...]
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Jumping straight from “Beer: 101″ to “Beer: 401″, this was the second in a series of self-hosted monthly beer tastings. We pulled in a crowd of seventeen for a sampling of nine different beers and what turned into a discussion of the attendees’ spirit animals. No joke.
Beers for this event were, understandably, a little harder [...]
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T.S. Eliot may find that “April is the cruellest [sic] month,” but here at the Thirsty Hopster, April is the beeriest month. In particular, the last 10 days have been the beeriest yet, as I ranged far and wide (ok, just across the bay in both directions) in my on-going quest to discover great new [...]
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I’m not generally ‘a fan’ of Fox News (possibly the biggest understatement of the year), but I saw this article and thought it was pretty funny.
I thought it was going to be about Humboldt Brewing Company’s Hemp Ale, but nope! It’s about Mount Shasta Brewing Company, based in Weed, CA, and their decision to print [...]
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Little does Amazon know that I totally scooped them on the beer + books idea and that once The Monkeyhouse is open (give it a few years…) this will be completely de rigueur.
In the meantime, I’m psyched about this article from Amazon on pairing books with the appropriate beer. The intent of the article was [...]
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I’ve been a fan of Kona Brewing’s Pipeline Porter for a while, and it was just about this time last year (at the last SF For Mason Beer Festival) when I last was able to get my hands on some of their tasty Wailua Wheat seasonal.
If you also like Kona Brewing Company’s beers, or want [...]
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I know the “beer geek” term has been much maligned recently, but it’s never bothered me and there was just no other title besides “Beer Geek Dream Come True” that’s going to do justice to my experience last night.
I was considering not even writing about the evening because it seemed so unreal to me at [...]
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I am so excited about this! I love Deschutes‘ beer and couldn’t be happier to see them expanding.
You can take a virtual tour of their new facilities, read this articleabout the new brewery from John Foyston of the Oregonian, and/or attend their Pre-Opening Extravaganza on Saturday, April 26, from 7:00pm - 10:00pm. Note that tickets [...]
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The Thirsty Hopster
I fully meant my next blog post to be about my second batch of homebrew, started up yesterday, but this is too good to wait. Today, was the best beer day of my life, bar none. The Five Guys and a Barrel dinner was AMAZING. I’m still recovering physically (tomorrow will definitely be a hangover [...]
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The Thirsty Hopster
It’s ready! We’ve been drinking the homebrewed Grains of Wrath IPA all week, and it’s not bad! Well, this is actually a matter of debate. The first time I tasted it, I thought, “Yeah, it’s beer, but it’s bad beer and if I tasted this elsewhere I wouldn’t have another.”
The most obvious problem was the [...]
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