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Katrina has left craft beer in its wake

While in New Orleans in April 2010, BeerByBART talked with Polly Watts, the owner of Avenue Pub, NOLA’s newest craft beer spot… see below! New Orleans. The mention of this city elicits powerful...

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Philly Beer Week: Where Beer Weeks Began

“America’s best beer drinking city” is the tag line on the logo for Philly Beer Week. That partially accounts for the reason I didn’t buy the souvenir t-shirt being sold at the opening event. After...

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Hop Harvests, Brews on the Bay and other craft Beer delights

Beer and the end of summer, what a pairing! It’s the heart of hop harvest time, and it’s a grand traditional beer celebration month in the Northern Hemisphere, from Munich to North Beach. Tomorrow...

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Tools tips and tricks: a SF Beer Week survival guide

So, by now have you cleared the decks for SF Beer Week 2011? Here are some survival tips, plus a little video valentine to this beer week from last year’s. 1. Have a backup plan. If you get to point A...

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Hop farming and the aromatic side of beer

The hop harvest is underway in Oregon.  While visitors to a hop farm were delighting in the aroma, the hop farmers said they hardly smelled a thing. (Wait for the high alpha acid varieties in the later...

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SF Beer Week 2012 – Getting there!

Here we go!     [LATER UPDATE: For info on the final weekend of SFBeerWeek, when the westbound direction on the Bay Bridge is Closed, see this later blog post:...

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BART transit tips for the bridgeless end of SF Beer Week

SF Beer Week has been too great and too busy for us to recount so far, although we can say  that Thursday’s master blending seminar with Eric and Lauren Salazar of New Belgium featuring special casks...

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Hoppy beers fresh from the bine

One of the best opportunities to understand fresh “wet” hops, put into a beer without being dried and baled first, is the Wet Hop Festival, this Saturday.  The low key annual festival at the Bistro in...

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Anchor to build second plant — yet stay with the home team

By now you have read the news.  Anchor Brewing Company is opening a large, high capacity second location, but not in North Carolina or Chicago.  San Francisco’s oldest brewery and largest employer in...

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Mikkeller Bar Opens in San Francisco

The long-anticipated Mikkeller Bar in San Francisco is finally opening for business…sort of. Beginning this evening, July 12th, and continuing until their official — and very grand — opening on August...

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Medal winner recap and field trip options

As the annual Great American Beer Festival fades in the memories of most attendees and competition entrants, a few happy brewery crews, owners and patrons continue to bask in the glow of a 2014 win...

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Conspiracy Under the Tarps: We Dig into the Origins of Barrelworks

Firestone Walker’s David Walker (L) and Matt Brynildson (center)  share a lambic with Cantillon Brewer, Jean Van Roy (R) It started with a chance encounter at Cantillon in May 2011.  Steve Shapiro (one...

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