Just a few images from Thursday night’s Meet-the-Brewer event at Øl Beercafe & Bottleshop in Walnut Creek, featuring Danville Brewing Company and their award-winning head brewer, my friend, Matt Sager …
Category: Bay Area Beer
The Rake (Alameda, CA)
The Rake is Admiral Maltings‘ own taproom, attached to the malt house in Alameda. The Rake has the distinction of serving only beers made by local breweries using Admiral Maltings’ own malts. And, for the cherry on top, it is one of the very few beer bars –probably the only one, in fact– which overlooks…
Admiral Maltings’ “Open Malthouse Day”
On February 10th, I attended Admiral Malting‘s “Open Malthouse Day”, hosted by Admiral’s founders, Ron Silberstein (of ThirstyBear Brewing) and Dave McLean (of Magnolia Brewing), as part of San Francisco Beer Week. Guests were taken on thirty- to forty-minute behind-the-scenes of the malthouse, where we were able to learn about and observe the full production…
SF Beer Week
It’s February, and February in the Bay Area means SF Beer Week! SF Beer Week is California’s premier beer festival. Over the course of a week it features hundreds of official beer-centered events (623 at last count for this year!) and dozens of unofficial and “warm up” events, throughout the nine Bay Area counties, and…