Just a reminder to all you Session bloggers out there: your posts on beer cocktails are due by this Friday, May 1st. Comment on this post or the original session announcement with a link to your take on beer cocktails. We’ll have the roundup posted by Saturday evening. If you wind up posting late, still [...]

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Yesterday, I was walking home and decided to pop into Coit Liquor in North Beach to see what they had in stock. I was sadly greeted by this sign:

While Coit Liquor may not have been the best bottle shop for beer and wine, it was in my neighborhood – and they cared about good beer. [...]

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The video below was made by Greg Koch, CEO of the Stone Brewing Co. and Chris & Jared of Redtail Media for the 2009 Craft Brewers Conference. Thanks go out to Jay Brooks for linking to it (and congrats again on the new post Jay). It is a great video – really stirs up a [...]

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Our kitchen floor here is so sticky that it rips my flip-flops right off my feet when I walk across. Why, you ask? Are we that dirty? Nope–we’re home brewers now.
We’ve had two big glass carboys for a few months now, but we still needed a lot of other equipment and ingredients to get started. [...]

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I like La Trappe in North Beach – a lot. I have been going there since they opened and I always have a good time and good beer. Sometimes the food has been a bit off, or maybe the crowd a bit odd (one time the closet started smoking – but they had just opened). [...]

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