I can’t keep up…but sometimes I can try to catch up.
This month, local beer people were aflutter about the new Mikkeller Bar SF. I hesitated to join in the hype, but the place actually is pretty cool, so I wrote about it. The nerds among us (guilty) are extra-amped about the flux capacitor, which Mike Reis at Serious Eats expounded on here.
Speaking of Mike Reis, the beer guy at Abbott’s Cellar when he’s not pursuing his lucrative freelance writing career (chuckle), he and the lads of Henhouse Brewing were honored by Zagat’s “30 Under 30″ list. You should be following Collin McDonnell from Henhouse on Twitter, too.
Brewer news! Derek Smith, who most recently brewed at Black Diamond for many years, is now at Moylan’s. If you read this in time you can go to Barclay’s tonight and ask him how it’s going.
Brewery news! Ale Industries (where I work part-time) is moving to Oakland! Fruitvale, to be exact — or Jingletown, if you’re artsy. 21st Amendment is looking around the East Bay, too.
The rumors are true: John Martin (Drake’s, Jupiter, Triple Rock) is opening a large beer/pizza joint in uptown Oakland.
The SF Brewers Guild has a new member, Headlands Brewery. You should also read about the painting on the stairs at 21st Amendment.
Our neighbors to the south are having Silicon Valley Beer Week right now, so check it out.
Pine Street Brewery, which I believe is currently brewing at Devils Canyon under an alternating proprietorship, is looking to build a brewery and has launched a crowdfunding effort. Jay Brooks has more on this.
Do you like holidays? IPA Day is back on August 1.
Crooked Stave is going to start local distribution! I’m also excited about the Bay Area getting the beers of Gigantic Brewery (Portland). We’ve got plenty of good local beer but new faces are always fun.
There is going to be a Bacon and Beer festival in San Francisco in August. ‘Nuff said.
There is a sea of bad beer writing in food and mainstream publications, but the New Yorker did it right with this piece on sour beer. Word.
