Twenty-First Amendment

Where To Celebrate Session Beer Month in the Bay Area

Don't get us wrong, we love big, bold, "extreme" beers as much as the next beer geek. That being said, sometimes you just want to have a few beers with friends on a sunny afternoon without losing the ability to walk or speak English. For the last couple years, the pendulum has been swinging back in ... More >>

Golden Road Brewing Soft-Launches in S.F.

Golden Road Brewing is doing something right. In the blink of an eye the operation became LA's largest craft brewery, and the first in the area to put their brews in cans. The crew has colonized Los Angeles, garnering a reputation as the fastest growing craft brewery in the country. With SoCal on bo ... More >>

Drink 2013: Beer Listings

SF Beer Week: Monday Event Roundup

There's no such thing as a "case of the Mondays" during SF Beer Week. The streets are awash in bubbly nectar, and you need to do your part to consume it. To ease you back into the groove, today we'll focus on casual "Meet the Brewer" style events. See Also: SF Beer Week: Your Weekend Schedule Stro ... More >>

Beer Week Gets Even Better With a Special Hop-On, Hop-Off Shuttle

As a life rule, we tend to avoid any situation that requires us to board a party bus, but this hop-on, hop-off bus from Brewtruc might just be the exception. As Haighteration reports, the beer-tap-equipped shuttle is helping solve the pain of hitting up multiple Beer Week destinations in a night by ... More >>

Strong Beer Month -- Your Beer Week Training Regimen

T-minus one week and counting until SF Beer Week consumes your every waking moment. While you sleep soundly, comforted by fantasies of sugar plums and craft brews, your poor liver lies awake, staring at the ceiling and pondering its inevitable demise. Never fear! Today marks the beginning of the 11t ... More >>

A Celebration in Honor of Ratification: The Anniversary of the Repeal of Prohibition

Celebrating the End of Prohibition Where: The Royal Exchange (301 Sacramento St.) When: Wednesday, December 5 from 2-9:30 p.m. Why: Because you are no longer required to be sober by law. The rundown: On December 5, 1933, the passage of the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution le ... More >>

Bear in Heaven: Show Preview

The 6 Best Concerts in San Francisco This Week

6. Simian Mobile Disco @ Mezzanine, Saturday, Dec. 1 Ever since Jas Shaw and James Ford split off from indie-pop outfit Simian circa 2006 to form Simian Mobile Disco, a cheeky sensibility has always underpinned the duo's slinky electro. On 2009's Temporary Pleasure, SMD mocked rich-kid opulence with ... More >>

Beer and Music: The Bay Brewed Blends Some of the Best of Both

Since events that mix cool music with fancy things to put in your body (like food or booze) are increasingly going to become the norm in S.F. -- this being a trend we're somewhat conflicted about -- we at least hope they'll be really good. Good like new music fest the Bay Brewed (put on by the folks ... More >>

Epic S.F. Beer Crawl Chronicled on Chowhound

A group of six Chowhounders drank every beer made in the city in an admirable 10-hour brewery crawl a few weeks ago. In a post titled "11 miles, 10 hours, 50 beers -- the epic SF brewery crawl," Chowhound user bbulkow outlines the quest, which took them from Magnolia on Haight out to Social Kitchen ... More >>

Combat the Fall Doldrums with the 'BRU/SFO' Belgian Beer Month

This coming weekend, you'll be forced to take part in one of our most perverse rituals: daylight savings time. Almost immediately, you'll switch into hibernation mode as the sun creeps past the horizon just after you get home from work. The best way to combat seasonal fatigue is to fortify the body ... More >>

Praise for Bay Area Brewers and Chefs at the Great American Beer Festival

Disney may have already trademarked the phrase, but we're pretty sure that Denver's Great American Beer Festival is actually the "happiest place on Earth." As soon as the doors open, thousands of wide-eyed beer aficionados storm the enormous hall, gleefully hustling to their favorite brewery booth f ... More >>

Two Local Pumpkin Beers To Get You Excited About Fall

With Halloween right around the corner, the season of the pumpkin is upon us. Pumpkin patches have popped up overnight, cute sugar pie pumpkins sit alongside their strictly ornamental gourd brethren at the Farmers Markets, and pictures of your kids playing in corn mazes and on hay bales clog our Ins ... More >>

Outside Lands Introduces Beer Lands to Fest, Summer Pairings Series Starts This Weekend

Outside Lands returns to Golden Gate Park on August 10-12 and makes a bid for being one of the city's biggest food fests with even more edible options than ever. A Taste of the Bay Area features 58 local food vendors including new businesses such as the Del Popolo monster pizza truck and brick and m ... More >>

Twenty Five Lusk Offers Monthly Beer and Food Flights

Craft beer has come a long way in Bay Area restaurants. Thanks to local chefs such as The Monk's Kettle's Adam Dulye and The Homebrew Chef, the phrase "beer dinner" no longer raises eyebrows. Neighborhoods are increasingly serviced by brew-centric bars, bottle shops, and restaurants with a knowledge ... More >>

Bay Area Beer Culture Takes Over the Craft Brewer's Conference and World Beer Cup

The annual Craft Brewer's Conference is unlike other professional gatherings. Every expo hall reeks of hops. The hospitality suite boasts 140 free-flowing taps. And, the attendees are significantly more bearded. As usual, the Bay Area beer scene was heavily represented at this year's event, held l ... More >>

Jasmine Smith Introduces Strong Cheese To San Francisco

A child of northern Wisconsin, Jasmine Smith grew up on a steady diet of processed cheese and Milwaukee's Best. "We used to get this cheese spread every year for Christmas that as a kid I liked but I now realize it was terrible!" Smith told us.  With her new venture Strong Cheese Provision ... More >>

This Weekend, Enjoy a Slow Beer at Golden Gate Park

It looks like we're due for another sunny weekend, a perfect time to slooooow down a bit and spend an afternoon in Golden Gate Park. And while you're there, be sure to stop and smell the beer.On Saturday, the SF Brewer's Guild collaborates with Slow Food San Francisco to bring you a Slow Beer celebr ... More >>

Triple Rock Brewery Fills A Room With Firkins

Hand-pumps, casks, firkins, and real ale. If these terms sound foreign, then all the more reason to attend this weekend's 10th Annual Bay Area Firkin Fest at Triple Rock. Around 20 Bay Area breweries will contribute 'real ale' -- brews poured from a cask or 'firkin'. This traditional method of ... More >>

Drink: Session Beers: When the Best Drink Isn't the Most Extreme

Begin Your Liver Training: It's Strong Beer Month

They say you are what you eat. Since February is Strong Beer Month, you're going to get pretty buff over the next few weeks. Buff and tipsy, most likely. For the tenth year, the Magnolia and 21st Amendment brewpubs are serving up a dozen special brews over 8% abv. For the second year, Social Kitchen ... More >>

This Saturday: Slow Food Crab Feed

​What: 5th Annual Slow Crabs Dinner Where: Women's Building When: Saturday, Dec. 3, 6 p.m. Cost: $60 Slow Food members, $65 general admission The rundown: Roll in the start of Dungeness Crabs eating season with the folks at Slow Food San Francisco. The feed will be cooked by California Culina ... More >>

At The Bay Brewed, Rock Out With Your Craft Beer Out

We know you like to rock. Perhaps you're reading this from your cubicle, and your colleagues have no idea there's an Iron Maiden t-shirt lurking underneath your sweater vest. You love live music, but every time you reach the front of the line at a concert concession stand, you're faced with overpric ... More >>

Enjoy a Staycation with the 'BRU/SFO' Belgian Beer Month

​Everybody seems a little tense these days. With all the worldwide protests and political squabbling, we'd like to pack up a suitcase and go #Occupy the Belgian countryside for a while. Some sugar waffles and a goblet of rich, Belgian ale would do the trick. Well, a boy can dream. Thankfully, ... More >>

The Great American Beer Festival: Bay Area Brewers and Chefs Bring the Brew

In 1982, the inaugural Great American Beer Festival showcased 47 beers from 24 breweries. The lucky 800 attendees had a fair shot at trying every beer in the room. Thirty years later, even the most hardened liver shudders in fear of how the festival has grown. With 466 breweries pouring 2,400 beers ... More >>

City Beer Store Celebrates Five Boozy Years

Jason HenryWanderer, Rouge Baril Baltique, and Open Container, all brewed to mark City Beer Store's fifth anniversary.​With the proliferation of local beer bars, gastropubs, and grassroots brewing operations, it's easy to forget how much our beery landscape has changed in five short years. The ... More >>

What to Do This Weekend, Mar. 12-13

Eating About BeerCheers! See the Winter Homebrew Dinner, Sun., Mar. 13.​Craving more? Scroll through additional listings here. Sat., Mar. 12: New Taste Marketplace St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church, 500 De Haro (at Mariposa), noon-5 p.m. This Saturday brings the fifth installment of this ... More >>

Drink 2011: Brewers Join Forces -- Beer Ensues

Drink 2011: In Craft Brewing, the Meek Inherit the Earth

Drank, Drunk: Drink

​DRINK: SF Weekly's Beer, Wine, and Cocktail Tasting Where: Fairmont Hotel, 950 Mason (at California), 772-5000 When: Sat., Mar. 12, 7-9 p.m. Cost: $50 general admission, $75 VIP early admission; see below for a $20 SFoodie discount The rundown: We're not saying that SF Weekly's first-eve ... More >>

On Day 10 of Beer Week, a Last Gasp of Liver Abuse

bittermelon/FlickrAll-day beer cocktails at the Alembic.​Sunday, Feb. 20 ​Your training regimen paid off! You've survived to the last day of SF Beer Week. Everything you sip today is just gravy. Begin your victory lap at 21st Amendment: Brewers' Sunday Tea Where: 21st Amendment Brew ... More >>

Pulling an All-Nighter, All Day: Beer Week Gets Brainy on Day 8

bittermelon/FlickrOffice hours: Cramming at City Beer Store.​Friday, Feb. 18 You've been wearing your party hat all week. On Day Eight of SF Beer Week, it's time to prove you're a gentle(wo)man and a scholar. Throw on that tweed jacket with suede elbow pads ― today's all about taking a scho ... More >>

Sunday, Beery Sunday: Day 3 of SF Beer Week

Annie&John/FlickrWake and slake: Beer brunch at 21st Amendment.​Sunday, Feb. 13 Onward, soldiers! Day Three awaits, and we're going for the trifecta. Pickle your liver at these lazy Sunday events: ​Start bright and early this morning with some hair of the dog at 21st Amendment: Big Be ... More >>

Chocolate Meets Beer in Richmond

Chocolate and Beer Festival​Second Annual Chocolate and Beer Festival Where: Craneway Pavilion, 1414 Harbour Way, Richmond, 510-735-1133 When: Sat., Feb. 19, 2-6 p.m. Cost: $28 (includes parking, entry, four chocolate tickets, and two beer tickets) The rundown: This sweet spot in SF Beer ... More >>

Leave the Car at Home ― It's Strong Beer Month

expatriotact/FlickrTaking it strong at 21st Amendment.​Huddle up, team. The mirage of SF Beer Week is beginning to take shape, with the festivities looming in less than two weeks. It's high time to ramp up our daily training regimen. Lucky for us, the good folks at Magnolia and 21st Amendment ... More >>

One woman's quest to live without products made in China

Prohibition's End Celebrated at Repeal Day Festivities

The 21st Amendment was ratified on dec. 5, 1933, driving a stake through Prohibition's heart.​"To alcohol! The cause of ― and solution to ― all of life's problems!" -Homer Simpson The modern cocktail revival comes with a near-fetishizing of the pre-Prohibition and Prohibition eras many o ... More >>

Fresh Eats: Our weekly roundup of SFoodie news

Slow Crab Festival Teams Up with S.F. Brewers Guild

being1628/FlickrMerry Dungeness.​Northern California's Dungeness crab sport-fishing season opened last weekend. The commercial season launches next week, an occasion as momentous for San Franciscans as the first drift of cherry blossoms from the trees at Tokyo's Ueno Park. That means it's not ... More >>

World Series Specials? Most Places Near the Ballpark Just Want to Survive

chuck l./YelpPublic House is the rare place offering World Series food specials ― some of them geared toward Rangers fans.​With AT&T Park in the national spotlight Wednesday for Game One of the World Series, you'd think South Beach restaurants would be busting out specials oozing with Fear t ... More >>

Trio of Events Keeps Oktoberfest Alive

OaktoberfestThree oompah-pah fests keep Oktoberfest alive for another week.​Oktoberfest is over. Long live Oktoberfest! The original Oktoberfest in Munich ends today, but that doesn't mean you can't still get your polka on. For three days in a row this week, starting in the city, moving up to ... More >>

NorCal Brewers Score Big at the Great American Beer Festival

Brian YaegerSocial Kitchen brewmaster Rich Higgins, manning the SF Brewers Guild booth in Denver.​As the 51-week wait for next year's 30th Great American Beer Festival begins, let's look back at the last few days in Denver, where 462 breweries converged inside the Colorado Convention Center, a ... More >>

Parada 22: Doesn't have to be traditional Puerto Rican to be tasty

Get Out of the House Tonight and Drink. Here's Where

bloodmeridian/FlickrThree animals and beer flights? Dude.​What the hell? Game Six of the World Series is bumping Glee? Make yourself feel better by checking out one of two drink-soaked events in the city tonight: • City Dish is touting tonight's Dubonnet party at Eastside West (3154 Fillmo ... More >>

Getting misty for the cranky old barkeep