Cocktails, Food, and Gardening South of the hill in Bernal Heights, CA
The Nøgne Ø Pale Ale is another beer club beer.
The nice thing about the beer club we belong to is that they include a little sheet with information about the beer and tasting notes.
As a Norwegian, I found the story of this beer really interesting.
The founder of the brewery, Kjetil Jikiun was a long haul [...]
Out with friends last night at Alembic Bar here in San Francisco, I was thrilled to see Russian River’s Pliny the Younger on tap.
Pliny the Younger is a triple IPA (India Pale Ale) Russian River only brews in limited amounts, once a year. This is the first time I’ve had a chance to try [...]
Russian River Brewing makes some of my favorite beers. Pliny the Elder, Blind Pig IPA, Pliny the Younger, and others are among the best beers brewed in Northern California.
But, where they have set themselves apart are brewing Belgian Abbey style ales. For this type of beer, Russian River seems to capture more of [...]
Certainly featuring Lagunitas Brewing often enough on this blog!
Lagunitas make a couple strong beers every year around the holidays. Brown Shugga usually shows up around Thanksgiving. The story with that beer, is, one of the Brewer Assistants mis-read the amount of Brown Sugar called for in their Barley Wine style Ale recipe, Olde [...]
A trip to Ledger’s Liquors in Berkeley turned up some nice finds: North Shore Distillery Gin No. 6 (Hi Sonja!) Fee’s Grapefruit Bitters, Coruba Dark Jamaican Rum. But, coolest of all, they had a number of Rodenbach Beers.
Now I know Rodenbach has been making an effort to re-establish itself in the US, but I [...]
OK, last Holiday Beer, I promise!
I just have nice feelings about the beers of Brasserie Dupont. When we first moved to San Francisco, and the Slanted Door first opened on Valencia, we used to have a great time there. We would order ourselves a big bottle of Saison Dupont and pig out on [...]
I mentioned our Holiday tradition of a flight of Anchor’s beers, another perhaps more enjoyable tradition we have is buying a bottle of the holiday beer from Brasserie d’Achouffe, N’Ice Chouffe. This is a strong, dark holiday beer. Quite sweet and lightly flavored with spices, thyme, and Curacao Orange peels.
The thing I like [...]
Every year when Anchor Brewing releases its new Christmas Ale, we pick up a six pack and compare it to the previous year’s beer. Last year we finally finished our first six pack.
This year the holidays and various events have conspired to prevent us from holding our annual comparison before Christmas. But, I [...]
This week’s beer comes from Port Brewing in San Marcos, CA.
I’m just going to to say it is a delicious beer and quote their label, as it seemed particularly meaningful to me this week:
From the French word “Garde” meaning something worth keeping, this Farmhouse Style Ale is most delicious companion to a loaf of freshly [...]
