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.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland's Ale Industries Puts Adorable Adoptable Pets on Beer Cans Oakland's longest running brewery — and one of its most interesting and innovative — Ale Industries has done a new marketing collaboration with the East Bay SPCA that is all but guaranteed to sell a lot of beer and get some cats and pups adopted.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beer Shortage Hits SF Bars Amidst Supply Chain Hiccups Trouble is brewing in the local beer delivery sector, as bars are forced to slash their beer menus because deliveries have slowed to a trickle.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink California Craft Beer Week Kicks Off With Virtual Events, Beer Bundles, and More SF Beer Week has, for this pandemic era, transformed into California Craft Beer Week for this year only, and it's a statewide celebration of great beer from all corners and counties with plenty of stuff you can order and/or pick up in person.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cult Beer Pliny the Younger Won't Have Its Usual Splashy Release in 2021, But Bottles Will Be Sold Online For First Time Russian River Brewing just announced that its now annual tradition of releasing its obsessed-over triple IPA Pliny the Younger won't be happening in February like it usually does — with all the incumbent release parties and lines of beer geeks.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved San Diego Brewery, Modern Times Beer, Opens In Oakland With The House Of Perpetual Refreshment With 34 beers on tap and various cold brew coffees available — all poured inside a chromatic, hallucinatory wonderland of quirky decor and knick-knack embellishments — Modern Times Beer’s new Oakland taproom is a sight to behold.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sonoma County Brewery Releases PG&E-Themed 'Mandatory Blackout' Porter Sonoma County craft brewers have been reacting to this fire season's pre-emptive power shutoffs with themed beers. The latest example is Barrel Brothers Brewing's Mandatory Blackout imperial porter.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Anderson Valley Brewing Company Sold To New Owner, Will Keep 'Craft' Label Anderson Valley Brewing Company is a staple favorite amongst craft beer aficionados in the Bay Area and beyond. This week, the venerated brewing company will officially have a change in ownership, but it will retain its status as a craft brewery.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink East Bay Brewery Gets Cease-and-Desist Letter From 'Great British Bake Off' Star Mary Berry Esteemed British baker and former judge on the Great British Bake Off, Mary Berry, has had her lawyers issue a cease-and-desist letter to Richmond, California-based Armistice Brewing Company.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Six Friends Visit All 28 San Francisco Breweries In One Day A group of SF friends set out on Saturday, August 17 to hit every brewery in the city, beginning out at the ocean at 9:30 a.m. at Beach Chalet — a grand total of 28 stops. And they survived.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thelonious Monk Estate Sues North Coast Brewing Over 'Brother Thelonious' Image Use Fort Bragg-based brewery North Coast Brewing is in some hot water with the estate of the late jazz pianist Thelonious Monk over their apparently unauthorized use of Monk's name and likeness on merchandise
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Following Bankruptcy, Magnolia Brewing Sold To New Belgium In the second such deal in a week involving a venerable local craft brewery, Magnolia Brewing has been sold to New Belgium Brewing Company, the makers of Fat Tire. The deal, as the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Toronado To Celebrate 30th Birthday With 30 Custom Beers Made Just For Them Next weekend, on August 12, craft beer mecca Toronado will be ringing in 30 years in the Lower Haight, and as Eater explains, they'll be doing so with a "insane" list of special-edition
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Anchor Brewing Sold To Sapporo Holdings; Pier 48 Expansion Plan Likely Dead Breaking news in the craft beer world: 121-year-old San Francisco brewery Anchor Brewing was sold to the Japanese beer company, Sapporo Holdings. (Clinking of frosty opaque mugs of beer.) In a sweet exclusive
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zeitgeist Plans To Expand Into Next-Door Space Ever-popular beer garden Zeitgeist has recently applied for a liquor license for the space next door to it, a former sheet metal shop that backs up to the beer garden's back wall. As
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cult Beer Favorite Pliny The Elder Loses Number One Spot On Cult Beer Ranking Russian River Brewing's Pliny the Elder is no longer tops among the beer aficionados and homebrew cultists who vote in the annual Zymurgy Magazine poll on the Best Beers in America. As SFGate
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Noc Noc's North Beach Location Is Up For Sale Billed as a "turn-key craft beer / wine bar," the Noc Noc on Broadway is up for grabs. It looks like the owners of Lower Haight mainstay the Noc Noc are giving up on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Do This Thing: Beer Fest Aboard A Submarine San Francisco is a beer-loving town if ever there was one, and this week marks the third annual installment of a smaller-scale beer fest than the annual Beer Week Gala that went down
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Brewery, Castro Bar, And Pot Company Brew 'Toke Back Mountain,' A 4/20 IPA With Marijuana Oil In a uniquely San Francisco collaboration, a SoMa brewery, a Castro bar and restaurant, and a local pot company have joined forces to create a 4/20 beer called "Toke Back Mountain." This
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Speakeasy Ales & Lagers Won't Shut Down After All, Continues Production With New Owner Lined Up In news that calls for a beer, San Francisco craft brewery Speakeasy Ales & Lagers has reversed course after making an abrupt announcement last week that it would shut down all operations immediately
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Financially Insolvent' Speakeasy Ales And Lagers Shutting Down Speakeasy Ales & Lagers, a 1997-founded craft brewery and taproom in the Bayview-Hunters Point area of San Francisco, is shutting down indefinitely according to an announcement from the business that cited outstanding debt
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fort Point Beer Co. Expanding Ferry Building Kiosk To Full Beer Garden After dropping anchor in the Ferry Building just over a year ago, Fort Point Beer Company is already in expansion mode, doubling the size of what's now a kiosk area operation by expanding
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Open In West Oakland: Old Kan Beer & Co. The brewpub project announced last month in the former Dock at Linden Street space, Old Kan Beer & Co., is now officially open as of today, and partners James Syhabout (Hawker Fare, Commis)
