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…
Category: SF Beer Week
Pliny the Younger 2024
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…
SF Beer Week 2024
SF Beer Week is back! … I mean, it’s been back, but now it’s back to how it used to be, with the full-on, in-person, kick-off Opening Gala event at Pier 35 in San Francisco’s Embarcadero waterfront. As always, there is an impressive lineup of beer-themed event throughout the Bay Area. The SF Beer Week…
Big Chicken
Unfortunately circumstances are such that I am not able to take part in any of SF Beer Week‘s activities, but I did manage to sneak in a taste of Big Chicken on Friday at Hops & Scotch, in Walnut Creek. Big Chicken is a double IPA released every year to coincide with SF Beer Week…