Exploring Craft Beer and Homebrew in Peru (Country Code 51) and the USA (Country Code 1)
Sadly, I have another brewery closure to announce. This time it is that of Buck Wild Brewing, an award-winning gluten-free brewery in Oakland’s Jack London Square District. Buck Wild was 100% gluten-free, from the brews to the bites, and one of the few places around where celiacs and gluten-sensitive folk could confidently order from the…
If you’re in the area, you should drop in at Danville Brewing Co. and get a pour or two of Tres Diablos. Tres Diablos is DBC’s excellent SF Beer Week triple IPA release. It clocks in at 10% abv and 130 IBU, and is hopped with Nelson and Mosaic. It is pleasantly bitter, with fruity…
I had my first -and, hopefully, not last- taste of the 2024 Pliny the Younger triple IPA from Russian River Brewing Co., yesterday at Øl Beercafe & Bottleshop in Walnut Creek. Øl was having an on-the-down-low Younger release event –the beer wasn’t on the board, you had to know to ask for it– before announcing…
Big Chicken is a double IPA released about this time every year by Hen House Brewing in Santa Rosa (CA) in advent of San Francisco Beer Week. The 2024 version is the ninth annual release of Big Chicken. Each year Hen House distributes kegs of the brew to select accounts in surrounding counties, who then…