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Embedded in Beer Week: our collaboration brew due
This evening we’ll get to try the finished beer Steve and I made with Cerveceria de Mateveza, the tiny commercial brewery with the long brewery name. We’re calling the beer Carob Calloway, an inspired...
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Unite Pale Ale – Pink Bootsters, Venusians and all
Women of the beer world unite! Today all over the world women are going into breweries to make beer, in many cases hanging out and stepping through the process while socializing with a group of their...
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Slow Learning: Sour beer experiments
Now and then the Beer By BART blog detours into the realm of home brewing, specifically the brewing of sour beers. Here’s Gail with some photos and notes from her conversation with James Spencer for...
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Dave McLean opens Magnolia Smokestack in the Dogpatch neighborhood
Several years ago, Dave McLean, founder of Magnolia Gastropub in the heart of the Haight Ashbury District, began to look for a place to brew more beer. The tiny brewery in the low ceiling basement...
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In the aftermath of IPA day
Last night I listed to a brand-new podcast, the Beer Curmudgeons Pilot episode. Sayre Piotrkowski, Certified Cicerone and publican now pouring his heart and soul into the delightful Hog’s Apothecary in...
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Happy Anniversary, Hog’s Apothecary
2013 was sure a banner year for new beer venues around the Bay Area, many of which were instant classics. Among these worthy destinations is Hog’s Apothecary in Oakland, a special place for beers and...
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Medal winner recap and field trip options
As the annual Great American Beer Festival fades in the memories of most attendees and competition entrants, a few happy brewery crews, owners and patrons continue to bask in the glow of a 2014 win...
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Picturing a beer community
Over the last several episodes of The Celebrator, we (Gail and Steve) have contributed our column and several articles which have seen printed, along with some photos. However, not all of the photos...
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Our Beer Week Event: Beer From The Other Side
This year, we are going back to our Beer By BART roots with an event that is about trying local beers, hanging out with interesting beer drinkers and planning local beer travel: Beer From The Other...
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Sought-after 10% B.A.R.T. beer has BART (the transit agency) crying trademark...
Our local regional transit agency is trying to block a California brewery’s US trademark application for a respected and highly rated barrel-aged beer called “B.A.R.T.” According to Eater, Bay Area...
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Pink boots, pink beards, and extra pix
The most recent issue of the Celebrator Beer News – the one that’s still on the stands now (by which we mean some copies may be still sitting in bales or in paper racks around select craft beer...
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Faction is brewing up a strong community
This story was originally written for Celebrator Beer News, which comes out every other month on paper, by Gail and Steve in collaboration. Mike Condie submitted cool photos as well. Publishing works...
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BARTing to SF Beer Week, an update
First, the Beer By BART update. We added sixteen New beer destinations to the Beer By BART home page since last beer week. Even though this is a personal, non-sponsored, non-commercial list, we are...
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Winter Fest becomes Spring Brews Festival 2016
The Brewing Network, the podcasters who had the mojo to become publicans, were slapped with the same dilemma all of us in the SF Bay Area had with the Super Bowl in the winter months. It messed up our...
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Farewell to Barclays, Welcome to The Cooler
One of the first places we sought out to explore interesting beers was a little restaurant and beer bar below grade off College Avenue in Oakland’s Rockridge area. Over the years, we dropped by, took...
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Famous Floating Festival Returns
The annual Brews on the Bay beer festival at Fishermans’ Wharf in SF is unique in several of its features. It’s all-City, completely local — now with nearly 30 SF breweries expected. Who knew we’d...
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Don’t Miss the Pink Boots beers!
The month of March has special significance for beer, arising from March eighth, traditionally International Women’s Day. On or around that date, all over the world, brewers now host women from their...
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Conspiracy Under the Tarps: We Dig into the Origins of Barrelworks
Firestone Walker’s David Walker (L) and Matt Brynildson (center) share a lambic with Cantillon Brewer, Jean Van Roy (R) It started with a chance encounter at Cantillon in May 2011. Steve Shapiro (one...
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The Importance of SMaSHing Beers
SMaSH is a catchy – really rather smashing – acronym for a simple brewers’ learning exercise. There’s no doubt both pro and home brewers get a lot out of tasting the experiment of beers constructed...
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A Juicy Session: Announcing #126
Announcing The Session #126 Hazy, Cloudy, Juicy: IPA’s strange twist Ready for the next installment of The Sessions, a.k.a. Beer Blogging Friday? On August 4th, 2017, the topic will be a...
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