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…
Blue Oak Brewing Co. (San Carlos, CA)
I found Blue Oak Brewing more or less by happenstance. Liz and I were at the south end of the SF Peninsula, and having finished an errand, we decided to treat me to a beer before making the long trip back home. We turned to the AHA‘s Brew Guru app and it led us to…
Gilman Brewing (Berkeley, CA)
Over the weekend I stopped in at Gilman Brewing, on Gilman St, in Berkeley. The space is fairly cozy. One is greeted by the taproom immediately upon entering, in a small, low-ceiling foyer, leading onto a passage backed by a long standing bar pushed up against the backside of the fermenters. However, above there is…