On Friday night I attended the San Francisco Beer Week Opening Gala for the first time, courtesy of the Bay Area Craft Brewers Guild, and the first descriptor that comes to mind is “Wow!” With nearly 130 breweries represented, and almost 400 beers on offer, the Gala is an amazing experience. As very brewery brings…
Category: Events
Upcoming releases of Resilience IPA
As Resilience Butte County Proud IPA comes out fermentation, breweries all over are preparing release events in the coming weeks, including a number of breweries around the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Fieldwork Brewing Company already released their version (hazy, of course!) on December 6th, and Altamont Beer Works in Livermore poured theirs on the…
Brewing Community Unites for Camp Fire Relief
In response to the terrible Camp Fire in northern California, which has destroyed thousands of homes and leveled entire communities -continues to burn as this is written- Sierra Nevada Brewing Company stepped forward with a proposal to brew a beer and donate all sales to fire victim relief efforts. Similar collaboration benefit brewing efforts are…
SF Beer Week dates set!
The San Francisco Brewers Guild has set the dates for the 11th edition of SF Beer Week: February 1st through 10th.