We’ve lived up the hill from Rogue’s San Francisco Public house for three years now. We have occasional issues with their service and their strangely warm taps. However, we have always wanted to go to one of their cheese and beer tastings, put on by Sheana Davis of the Epicurean Connection, and we finally got [...]

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Can’t believe I missed this one…fun stuff happening in New York:
“Four well-know brewers are joining forces with Mario Batali, Joe Bastianich, and Italian food emporium Eataly to open a brewery-pub on a New York City rooftop with breathtaking views of the Flatiron and Empire State Buildings.
The four breweries collaborating on this project include two Italian [...]

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Jesse Friedman from beer & nosh, knows a thing or two (actually a lot) about beer, ice cream, and photography. And we luckily (thanks to his fiance Eliana) got to celebrate all of those things with him and some of his friends last week at Humphry Slocombe. Jesse worked with Humphry Slocombe to create a bunch of beer [...]

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Chez Panisse Cafe was pretty much packed last week on Monday when Jasmine and I got there. I had read that they were doing beer pairings all week and we were already going to do a East Bay beer day for SF Beer week, so why not have a fancy lunch?  Unfortunately they didn’t have formal beer [...]

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When I used to work in Jack London Square two years ago, Miss Pearl’s was a place called Jack’s where I got coffee and sticky buns in the morning. Now they serve “island inspired cuisine”, feature steel drum players on Sunday mornings, and have chairs made up to look like zebra skin purses. Quite different.

Walking [...]

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