SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Magnolia Brewing Files For Bankruptcy, Promises Business As Usual San Francisco craft beer pioneers Magnolia Brewing grew quickly from a Haight Street basement operation into a two-pronged ale empire with the addition of $3 million, 10,000-square-foot Dogpatch brewpub Smokestack, but despite
SF News SF Beer Week Schedule Is Here, Just Black Out Your Calendar Now You might be a year-round celebrant, but beer receives special attention next month. The 8th annual San Francisco beer "week," which hinges on the San Francisco Brewers Guild's somewhat loose, probably drunk definition
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Seven Fall Brews To Drink This Decorative Gourd-Flavored Beer Season It's decorative gourd-flavored beer season, motherf**ckers. But pumpkin beers are a divisive drink, so we've just included two of them here amidst a variety of seasonal brews. Harvest them on tap and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Heineken Buys 50 Percent Stake In Lagunitas "This is not the end of anything at all at Lagunitas," writes cantankerous Lagunitas owner and founder Tony Magee in a somewhat defensive blog post. The occasion: His beer world-shattering decision to sell
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Drink This: Wet Hop IPA On Nitro At Local Brewing Co. At SoMa's Local Brewing Co., co-founder and brewmaster Regan Long wanted to share a lesson on N2 versus CO2 in beer. And she wanted to do it in a way you could taste.
Arts & Entertainment Seven Fun And Easy Weekend Staycation Ideas In SF Sometimes, there just isn't time or money for a real vacation. But you do realize that the city you live in happens to be one of the highest ranked domestic tourist destinations in
Arts & Entertainment Drunks Throw Up Strong Performances At Beer Mile World Classic The underground competitive drinking contest known as the Beer Mile had a milestone event on Treasure Island Saturday, with the Beer Mile World Classic bringing the drinking game's world record holders together for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Reno-Based Brasserie St. James Poised To Take On Former Abbot's Cellar Space The former location of Abbot's Cellar has lain dormant since the owners, Monk's Kettle, shut down their high-end spinoff in January, gesturing to the minimum wage hike. But betting on the viability of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink With Craft Beer And Chili, Old Bus Tavern Quietly Opens On Mission Street A new brewpub and yet another trendy neighborhood spot on Mission Street in Bernal Heights, Old Bus Tavern has softly opened its doors in the former El Patio restaurant space. Beer made in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Step Inside Black Sands, Serving Coffee Now And Microbrews Soon In The Lower Haight A photo posted by Black Sands Brewery & Supply (@blacksandsbeer) on Jul 8, 2015 at 4:50pm PDT Coffee and breakfast, not to mention these dope tiles below, now greet you at the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 12 Beers You Better Try During SF Beer Week Ahoy, whale hunters! SF Beer Week is just about to kick off (February 6-15), and beer lovers should stay on the lookout for the following specialty, limited release, and generally hard-to-find beers. The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Grab A Ticket To SF Beer Week's Always Sold-Out Opening Night On February 6th, 2015, the Bay Area beer world will convene in the most cohesive SF Beer Week event. It's the Opening Gala, and tickets are out now for $75 and will sell
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Bay Area's Six Best Winter Beers Given the Bay Area's subtle seasons, it's sometimes easier to tell the time of year by what beer you're holding. According to that calendar, we're slipping out of pumpkin season and approaching a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Old Devil Moon Will Bring Craft Beer To La Lengua A new beer bar and restaurant is headed for the Mission/Bernal border next year, and it's called Old Devil Moon. The folks at La Terraza on Mission and Cortland are retiring from
Arts & Entertainment Madison Bumgarner Surprises Us One Last Time When you watch the above video of the SF Giants celebrating immediately following their nail-biting triumph Wednesday night, you will see champagne spray. You will hear hollering. But you know what you won't
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Coming Lower Haight Brewpub Debuts Mural, Brew Kits by Caleb Pershan Local artist Lara Buelow is gussying up the Wiggle this week with a new mural. The location: Haight and Pierce at Black Sands, the under-construction brewpub and open-on-weekends home-brew supply
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink DIY Brewhouse Diving Dog Opens In Oakland, Beer Nerds Rejoice Around 3 p.m. on Friday, Oakland's Diving Dog Brewhouse posted indisputable proof that they have officially opened and are serving at least one customer. According to Diving Dog's Facebook, the lucky first
Arts & Entertainment Watch The SF Giants' Madison Bumgarner Chug Four Cans Of Something (?) At Once It's unclear what the SF Giants' Madison Bumgarner is pouring into his mouth as he celebrates last night's breathtaking win, but whatever it is, it was well-deserved. As noted in our game report,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Great Big New Restaurant & Distillery Coming To Dogpatch A Portland-based restaurateur is bringing a big new restaurant and event-space concept to a former boiler factory at Third and 19th Streets. The unnamed, 12,300-square-foot project will include a 100-seat restaurant and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Five Places To Taste Great Beer This Beer Week Friday marked the kickoff of S.F. Beer Week, and things really kick into gear today and through the weekend with special tap takeover events, beer dinners, and mini-festivals throughout the Bay Area.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Chinese Food Has Its Own Beer Now Danish brewer Mikkel Borg Bjergsø — who has a cult following among American beer geeks for his various small-production beer experiments and who opened his first American outpost, Mikkeller Bar, in San Francisco last
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Time-Lapse: Sierra Nevada Beer Fermentation Indeed, beer is a living thing. The folks at Sierra Nevada created this time-lapse video showing their Bigfoot Barleywine fermenting over a six-day period. So frothy. Laughing Squid goes on to describe this
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Do This: The Bay Brewed at Public Works It's frigid out, holiday commitments are weighing heavy, but you still have weeks of your regular work schedule to contend with before the festivities really kick in. It's almost too much for a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cellarmaker's Taco Hands: A Beer That Tastes Like Tacos (By Crystal Sykes) There are a lot of places in the city to drink a beer and there are a lot of places in the city to eat a taco, but one San
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photo: Baby Drinks Bad Beer On Live TV Soaring rent prices, our Daisy getting assaulted at Candlestick, Jeff Daniels' Emmy for the exceptionally awful The Newsroom ... it's been a tough day to swallow. We know. But on the lighter side of
