SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where to Find Some of the Much Sought-After Triple IPA Pliny the Younger This Weekend Russian River Brewing's perennial cult favorite beer Pliny the Younger — the rabid, continued popularity and cult status of which is baffling to some but completely justified to others — is more plentiful than it used to be.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Legendary Lower Haight Beer Mecca Toronado Is Up For Sale, Blowout Celebration Planned Next Month After 38 years of slinging "extreme" beers for a crowd of beer geeks and average beer lovers alike, the Lower Haight's Toronado is facing the end of an era and an uncertain future.
Arts & Entertainment Downtown SF Oktoberfest Will Be the First Boozy, Open-Container ‘Entertainment Zone’ Party The streets will be closed to cars and the beer steins flowing at Oktoberfest on Front, as the Oktoberfest block part will be California’s first alcohol-drenched “entertainment zone” party under new legislation.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chobani Yogurt Founder Buys Anchor Brewing, Plans to Reopen Brewery Soon The billionaire founder of the Chobani yogurt brand, Hamdi Ulukaya, has stepped in to save and revive Anchor Brewing Co., and he even has plans to rehire its employees.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Barebottle Is Throwing a Beer Festival You Can Bring Your Kids To Barebottle Brewing Co., whose Bernal Heights taproom is well known as a family-friendly hangout, is capitalizing on their reputation and hosting a first-of-its-kind family-friendly beer festival this summer in Salesforce Park.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Many In the Beer Community Are Big Mad That People Are Bringing Their Kids to Taprooms There's tempest in a pint glass brewing over pint-sized patrons being brought to breweries and taprooms, as a social media flare-up reignites the debate over parents who bring their kids into drinking establishments where minors are legally allowed.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Monk’s Kettle Closing Its Mission District Location, Moving to Rockridge The 16-year run of Mission brewpub Monk’s Kettle is coming to an end on 16th Street, but they’re moving to a larger spot in Oakland’s Rockridge. And they’ve got choice words for the role delivery apps played in their SF location’s demise.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cult Beer Hit Pliny the Younger Releases Its 20th Anniversary Edition on Friday Are you willing to wait in a six-hour line for exceptional beer that only comes out once a year? You’ll get your chance starting Friday, as Russian River Brewing Company’s 20th anniversary edition Pliny the Younger comes out tomorrow, and will be available for two weeks.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Beer Week Kicks Off Friday, Opening Gala Returns to Pier 35 It's that time of year again, when brewers from around the city, the Bay, and across Northern California come together to celebrate and sip all manner of hazy IPAs, sour beers, pastry stouts and everything in between.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Woods Beer & Wine Co. Opening New Brewpub — With Burgers! — In Cole Valley Woods Beer & Wine Co. is expanding yet again, and the brewery is readying a seventh location in the middle of SF, in Cole Valley, at the site of the former Reverie Cafe (848 Cole Street).
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trumer Opening Its First US Taproom In Berkeley, With an Oktoberfest Grand Opening on October 7 The 400-year-old Austrian beer Trumer Pils is opening its first-ever US taproom in Berkeley next weekend, and celebrating with an Oktoberfest party that will feature some of their other Bavarian-inspired lagers (and costume contests).
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cellarmaker Brewing Opens Its New Taproom and Pizza Restaurant In Oakland Growing craft brewery Cellarmaker, which began life in a small space in SoMa a decade ago and has since expanded with a Berkeley-based brewing operation and some highly acclaimed Detroit-style pizzas in the Mission, has just debuted its much-anticipated Jack London Square brewpub.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Owners of Beer Hall On Polk Take Over Former Mikkeller Brewpub Near Union Square The space that was home to beer bar and gastropub Mikkeller at the foot of Mason Street is going to be coming alive again soon, once again as a brewpub.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dogpatch's Harmonic Brewing to Shut Down This Fall, Stop Brewing Beer The craft beer shakeout continues as eight-year-old Dogpatch brewery Harmonic Brewing is closing its doors this fall due to a lease issue.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Anchor Brewing Employees Frustrated By Sapporo, Say Their Purchase Bid Was Delayed A group of unionized employees at Anchor Brewing Co. were pleading with Sapporo to keep the brewery open an extra month so that they could secure financing for their purchase bid and go over the company's financials. But Sapporo is going ahead with their bankruptcy receivership.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Anchor Brewing Will Stop Selling Beer Outside California, Cancels Its Seasonal Anchor Christmas Ale People are probably going to blame the 2021 label redesign, but it’s probably more the economic realities of the beer industry that Potrero Hill-based Anchor Brewing Company will stop distributing outside California, and will no longer brew its annual Anchor Christmas Ale.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Beer Week Begins Friday With Kickoff Tasting Events In North Bay and East Bay; SF Kickoff on Saturday San Francisco Beer Week has very much become Northern California Beer Week over the years, with breweries from as far north as Mendocino and the Sierra joining in, and as far south as Carmel. And this year they're dividing up the kickoff events by subregion.
Arts & Entertainment Where To Buy Beer, Wine, and Liquor on Thanksgiving Day in SF Don’t be a turkey and run out of alcohol on Thanksgiving Day! Even if you drink through your supply on Thursday, there are many 11th hour beverage and grocery establishments that will gladly ring you up to refill your stock on Thanksgiving Day in SF.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF-Born Brewery and Distillery Seven Stills Is Shutting Down Its Flagship Facility In Mission Bay In another clear case of a local business that went into expansion mode at just the wrong time before the pandemic, Seven Stills Brewery and Distillery in Mission Bay has announced it will close after Halloween weekend.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mikkeller Bar Closes For Good (Again) After Nine Years In the Tenderloin Popular SF brewpub Mikkeller Bar, one of two U.S. outposts of cult-famous Danish brewery Mikkeller, is shutting its doors at 34 Mason Street in the next week after nine years at the edge of the Tenderloin — two years after it appeared to close the first time.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 13 Best Breweries In San Francisco and the East Bay Craft beer has been booming in the Bay Area for over a decade, and many breweries are turning out excellent, incredibly interesting beer. SFist brings you the best of what we think SF, Oakland, and Berkeley have to offer, beer-wise.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink People Are Lining Up for Pliny the Younger Again, For Whatever Reason Beer geeks the nation over have gotten it into their heads that Russian River Brewing's annually released, extra-piney triple IPA called Pliny the Younger is something that is worth standing in a long line for. And once again, that is what some local beer geeks are doing.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Diego-Based Modern Times Brewery Closes Oakland Taproom After Two Years Citing the pandemic and "global declines in the craft beer industry," popular San Diego-based beer brand Modern Times announced Tuesday that it's shuttering four of its West Coast taprooms, including one that it opened in Oakland in December 2019.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Magnolia Brewing Closing Its Eight-Year-Old Dogpatch Brewpub San Francisco-born craft beer operation Magnolia Brewing Co. — which for several years has been partly owned by the cofounder of New Belgium Brewing Kim Jordan — is downsizing and returning back, after eight years, to just having its Upper Haight flagship location.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Beer Week Comes Barrelling Back, Kicks Off Friday With Series of Smaller Events Beer Week is back, but COVID precautions will structure it differently, and Friday’s San Francisco Kick Off event is at a Chase Center taproom you may not have heard of before.
