Yes, after two long years, beer festivals are back! Just in my corner of the San Francisco Bay Area, we recently opened beer fest season with two much-loved events: the Brewing Network’s Spring Brews Festival, and the Bay Area Craft Brews Festival. The Spring Brews Festival, held on March 26th in Concord’s Todos Santos Plaza,…
Why Do We Celebrate National Beer Day on April 7th?
Why is April 7th “National Beer Day”? Well, it’s because it was on that date in 1933 that the production and distribution of beer became once again legal in the United States. On March 14, 1933, Representative Thomas H. Cullen introduced House Resolution 3341, which would amend parts of the Volstead Act, which was the…
La Cantina (Salinas, CA)
La Cantina Brewing Company is one of Salinas’ newest breweries (the other being Brew-N-Krew Alehouse, which just opened). La Cantina is located at the north end of the historic part of downtown, half a block from the National Steinbeck Center, in the former home of the Monterey Coast Brewing Co. La Cantina is a Mexican-American…
Bay Area Brewers Guild releases specially-curated SFBW 12-Packs
The Bay Area Brewers Guild is releasing a series of specially-curated 12 packs representing what Bay Area craft beer community has to offer. The Guild is also partnering with Half Time Beverage to handle distribution and enable shipping to more than 30 states. The series of mixed packs, to be released periodically throughout 2022, will…