SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 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.
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 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.
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 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 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 Anthony Bourdain: SF Beer Nerds Are Like 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers' Anthony Bourdain, a fan of San Francisco's "two-fisted" drinking culture — "Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me" as he once said — has found one
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Do This Thing: Sierra Nevada Beer Festival At Pier 35 This Weekend Heads up: Sierra Nevada of Chico, CA, the nation's third largest craft brewery, is docking at Pier 35 this Saturday for an afternoon of beer and merriment. The festival, in the afternoon from
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 Map Reasserts Northern California's Craft Beer Superiority From the always-thinking (always drinking?) folks at the New Yorker comes a handy new interactive map thing about beer. Craft beer specifically. Because this country is nothing if not a nation of people
