This Sunday, all eyes in the Bay Area were on Candlestick Park where the Forty Niners were taking on the New York Football Giants in the NFC Championship Game. Meanwhile in Sebastopol, preparations were underway for the first brewmaster’s dinner of the year. For this occasional, Colorado’s New Belgium would be the featured brewery with assistant brewer Jamie Mastin on hand. Continue reading Hopmonk Brewmaster’s Dinner with New Belgium
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For those in the Bay Area food and beverage industry, there’s a good friend to have in Sheana Davis. Owner of the Epicurean Connection, Sheana is involved in many efforts to improve the experience for food lovers in Sonoma County and beyond. One way she does this is by bringing together members of the cheese, beer and wine industries for an evening of tastings at the Rogue Alehouse in San Francisco. Continue reading Epicurean Connection’s Annual Cheese Beer and Wine Tasting “If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, its yours forever.” Well, something I love has come back. This Beer of the Week is a special Double IPA that comes around occasionally and is always a treat. The Beer of the Week is Marin Brewing Company’s White Knuckle Double IPA. Continue reading Beer of the Week: Marin Brewing Company White Knuckle Double IPA For a lot of people this Sunday's plan includes a large high definiton television, a table full of food and 3-4 hours of Bay Area football. For beer lovers, the weekend may include some football, but in… This is a syndicated post. Read the original at Mario Rubio's feed2012-01-20. Every other week, Peter from BetterBeerBlog and I trade emails on a topic chosen by one of us. Peter took the point this week and dishes the question about our beer loyalties. Can they compare to sports loyalties? Should they? Continue reading Hopinions: Is it the Clothes? What is RateBeer doing at a Fancy Food Show? I asked myself this when applying for press credentials. The truth is that craft beer is “fancy food” and it’s important to reinforce our position in the culinary world by showing interest in the industry as a whole. Plus, beer has food value, while most food [...] . . . → Read More: Hop Press: West: Winter Fancy Food Show 2012 This is a syndicated post. Read the original at Hop Press: West2012-01-19. New year, time for a new beer. This time the beer is coming down from the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains and the brewery of the same name. Not your typical winter brew, this beer is a welcome change. The Beer of the Week is Sierra Nevada’s Ruthless Rye IPA. Ruthless IPA is brewed with this . . . → Read More: Beer of the Week: Sierra Nevada Ruthless Rye IPA I’ve been hearing a lot of complaints around the beer world. They center around the use of a word that many feel is being used incorrectly. The offending word is “dank” and I’m here to play the role of defender. First, the definition as listed on dictionary.com: dank adjective /daNGk/ danker, comparative; dankest, superlative Disagreeably damp, musty, [...] . . . → Read More: Hop Press: West: Dank You Very Much This is a syndicated post. Read the original at Hop Press: West2012-01-12. January was my months to host The Session, a unified blogging experience shared by beer writers around the globe. With 58 sessions behind us, it becomes more and more difficult to find a new topic; one that’s interesting to beer writers and compelling to beer readers. So I chose the topic of “I Almost Always Drink Beer, But When I Don’t” hoping it would stir up some new ideas for a New Year. Continue reading Session #59 Roundup Here in Santa Rosa we are surrounded by great brewing. Downtown Santa Rosa is home to two Great American Beer Festival medal winners. While many may know of the brewery carrying the local watershed’s namesake, some may not know of the brewpub which has been there for 15 years, Third Street AleWorks. Recently the brewery began bottling select beers from their lineup. Lucky for me, my favorite beer in their lineup made it in the bottle. This week’s Beer of the Week is Third Street Aleworks’ Puddle Jumper Pale Ale. Continue reading Beer of the Week: Third Street Aleworks Puddle Jumper Pale Ale |
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