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Fort Point Beer Co. Merging With Santa Rosa’s HenHouse, Moving Operations Up North

SF’s famed microbrewery Fort Point Beer Company won’t be an SF microbrewery anymore, as it’s merging with Santa Rosa’s HenHouse Brewing Co. and moving all its operations up to Sonoma County.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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New Belgium Brewery In Mission Bay Announces Abrupt Closure After Short 3-Year Tenure

New Belgium Brewing Company, the maker of Fat Tire, announced Thursday that it was ceasing operations at the SF Mission Bay location and shutting down effective immediately.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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Cellarmaker Brewing Co. Opens New Berkeley Beer Garden, Oakland Taproom Coming Next Month

The Detroit-style pizza and craft beer of Cellarmaker is making its way to the East Bay, as the brewer recently opened its Berkeley beer garden, and its anticipated Oakland brewery and taproom is coming next month.

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No More Anchor Steam Beer: 127-Year-Old Brewery Shutters In San Francisco

In very sad news for San Francisco at large, as well as the craft beer community, landmark Potrero Hill brewery Anchor Brewing Co. is shutting down brewing operations and declaring bankruptcy.

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A Certain Mission Brewpub Is Now Serving Up Rice-a-Roni Arancini, Cioppino, and $2 Oysters

In the last nine months, Fort Point Beer Co.'s Valencia Street brewpub — which opened pre-pandemic, then closed for most of it — has ramped up its food offerings and become more of a full-fledged restaurant.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Woods Beer & Wine Co. to Reopen In New Digs On Treasure Island, In Historic Naval Administration Building

The popular Woods Island Club will be getting a new, slightly different incarnation this spring — and possibly as early as late February — in the iconic Administration Building on Treasure Island.

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SF's Cellarmaker Brewing to Take Over Former Blue Bottle Warehouse In Oakland for New Pizza and Beer Spot

The San Francisco craft beer stars behind Cellarmaker Brewing Co., who three years ago surprised us with a shockingly good pizzeria to go with their always good and often hoppy beers, are now expanding to Oakland.

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Marin Brewing Company Closing at the End of the Month, After a Nearly 33-Year Run

One of the early trailblazers of the microbrewery craze is shuttering on January 31, as Larkspur’s Marin Brewing Company is the latest restaurant and brewery to go bottoms up during the pandemic.

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Line 51 Brewery And Tasting Room Opens In Oakland, Complete With Charming Transit Bus Tap

Mass transit fans and beer aficionados alike, rejoice. Oakland's newest watering hole combines the best of both those worlds, pouring a selection of on-tap IPAs and ales from the side of a retired and restored AC Transit bus from 1972.

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Seven Stills Shuts Down Mission Taproom, Has Brewery License Suspended For Tied-House Violations

Seven Stills Brewery and Distillery is closing two of its facilities in the face of a 90-day suspension of their brewery and distillery license by the California Bureau of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) over some 60 documented violations of tied-house laws.

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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.

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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.

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Seven Stills To Open Taproom In Almanac's Former 24th Street Space

The team behind Seven Stills, the local distillery and brewery operation with locations in the Bayview, Mission Bay, Nob Hill, and the Outer Sunset, is opening a fifth location in the Mission, in the brewpub space recently vacated by Almanac Beer Co.

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