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…
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…
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Beer History: Backus & Johnston Brewery (Lima, Peru)
I recently came across these images of the old Backus & Johnston brewery in Lima. The Backus and Johnston brewery and ice manufacturing plant was founded in 1879 by the Americans Jacob Backus and John Howard Johnston in Lima’s Rímac District. In 1889, they incorporated “The Backus and Johnston’s Brewery Company Ltd” in London in…