Scenes from 2019 SF Beer Week Media Preview Event, Plus SF Beer Week Opening Gala Brewery List Announced
SF Beer Week is coming up, and its kickoff event, the well-regarded Opening Gala, is set for Friday, Feb. 1 at San Francisco’s Pier 35 (1454 The Embarcadero).
The list of participating breweries was just announced and includes over 125 breweries.
From Silicon Valley:
- Alpha Acid Brewing
- Armstrong Brewing
- Blue Oak Brewing
- Camino Brewing
- Campbell Brewing
- Clandestine Brewing
- Devil’s Canyon Brewing
- Floodcraft Brewing
- Freewheel Brewing
- Golden State Brewery
- Gordon Biersch Brewing
- Hapa’s Brewing
- Hermitage Brewing
- JP DasBrew
- Kelly Brewing
- Loma Brewing
- New World Ales
- Santa Clara Valley Brewing
- Strike Brewing
- Taplands
- Tied House Brewery & Cafe
From San Francisco:
- 47 Hills Brewing
- Barebottle Brewing
- Barrel Head Brewhouse
- Bartlett Hall
- Beach Chalet Brewery & Restaurant
- Fort Point Beer
- Black Hammer Brewing
- Black Sands Brewery
- Cellarmaker Brewing
- Ferment.Drink.Repeat
- Harmonic Brewing
- Headlands Brewing
- Holy Craft Brewery
- Hop Oast Pub & Brewery
- Laughing Monk Brewing
- Local Brewing
- Magnolia Brewing
- Pedro Point Brewing
- Pine Street Brewery
- San Francisco Brewing
- Seven Stills Brewery & Distillery
- Social Kitchen & Brewery
- Southpaw BBQ & Brewery
- Speakeasy Ales & Lagers
- Standard Deviant Brewing
- Sufferfest Beer
- Sunset Reservoir Brewing
- ThirstyBear Organic Brewery
- Triple Voodoo Brewery
- Woods Beer
From the East Bay:
- 21st Amendment Brewery
- Admiral Maltings
- Alameda Island Brewing
- Ale Industries
- Almanac Beer
- Altamont Beer Works
- Armistice Brewing
- Berryessa Brewing
- Brooklyn Brewing
- Calicraft Brewing
- Cleophus Quealy Beer
- Danville Brewing
- Del Cielo Brewing
- Drake’s Brewing
- East Brother Beer
- Eight Bridges Brewing
- Elevation 66 Brewing
- Epidemic Ales
- Federation Brewing
- Funkwerks
- Ghost Town Brewing
- Gilman Brewing
- Heretic Brewing
- Lucky Devil Brewing
- Novel Brewing
- Oakland United Beerworks
- Ocean View Brew Works
- Original Pattern Brewing
- Shadow Puppet Brewing
- Temescal Brewing
- The Rare Barrel
- Triple Rock Brewing
- Trumer Brewery
- Working Man Brewing
From the Coast:
- Alvarado Street Brewery
- Brewery Twenty Five
- Corralitos Brewing
- Discretion Brewing
- Elkhorn Slough Brewing
- Firestone Walker Brewing
- Half Moon Bay Brewing
- Hop Dogma Brewing
- Humble Sea Brewing
- New Bohemia Brewing
- Peter B’s Prewpub
- Sacrilege Brewery + Kitchen
- Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing
- Seabright Brewery
- Shanty Shack Brewing
- Uncommon Brewers
- Woodhouse Blending & Brewing
From the North Bay:
- 101 North Brewing
- Barrel Brothers Brewing
- Bear Republic Brewing
- Cloverdale Ale House
- Cooperage Brewing
- Dempsey’s Restaurant & Brewery
- Fogbelt Brewing
- HenHouse Brewing
- Iron Springs Pub & Brewery
- Mad Fritz Beer
- Marin Brewing
- Moylan’s Brewing
- Napa Smith Brewery
- Old Possum Brewing
- Plow Brewing
- Russian River Brewing
- Seismic Brewing
- Sierra Nevada Brewing
- Sonoma Springs Brewing
- St. Florian’s Brewery
- Stumptown Brewery
- The Woodfour Brewing
- Third Street Aleworks
- Trade Brewing
Andrea and I had the very good fortune of attending the SF Beer Week Media Preview last week where we sampled a bunch of well crafted beers from select brewery members of the Bay Area Brewers Guild, expanded from the former SF Brewers Guild.
Below are some pics from the event:
ThirstyBear Shipwreck Strong Ale (winner at the recent Good Food Awards) and ThirstyBear Le Cavalier (Belgian-style Biere de Garde aged one year in oak barrels infused with Brettanomyces Bruxellensis).
ThirstyBear’s Ron Silberstein and Nadiya Wahl.
Loma Brewing Company.
Loma Brewing’s Brogan Hunter and Dan Reineke.
Loma Brewing’s Kevin Youkilis.
Always great saying hi and catching up with Steve Shapiro of Beer By Bart and Jen Muehlbauer of East Bay Beer.
Joanne Marino, executive director of the Bay Area Brewers Guild.
Seismic Porter.
Seismic Brewing’s Anthony Ayez and Pat Delves.
Magnolia Brewing Cold Cruiser Pilsner.
Magnolia Brewing’s Zeke Durantini.
Barebottle New Gym Membership.
Barebottle’s Tom Murtiashaw and Lester Koga.
SF Beer Week PR extraordinaire Gail Ann Williams and Andrea.
21st Amendment Tasty IPA.
21st Amendment’s Tim Twiddy and Jessica Rogers.
Strike Brewing’s Alayna Mills and Andrea.
Strike Brewing Company DDH Rally Hat Pale Ale and Nor Cal California Kölsch.
Drake’s Mictlan Barrel Aged Porter with Lactose, Cinnamon, Orange Peel, Star Anise and Cocoa Nibs.
Drake’s Cult of the Sun Sour Blonde Ale with Yuzu and Buddha’s Hand Citron Lemon Zest.
Drake’s Travis Camacho and Brian Stechschulte.
Magnolia Brewing’s Dick Cantwell.
Magnolia Brewing Strata Fortress Double IPA.
Almanac Plum Fairy Sour.
Almanac’s Annalena Barrett and Phil Emerson.
HenHouse Brewing Chicken Coop DeVille Triple IPA collaboration with Cooperage Brewing.
HenHouse’s Anna Scott.
Sierra Nevada’s Sean Chaffee.
Sierra Nevada Resilience Butte County Proud IPA.
Andrea and Patrick Campbell of Bay Area Beers.
Temescal Brewing Lost Time Hazy IPA.
Temescal’s Sam Gilbert and Alice Wiesner.
It was very cool to have the brewers themselves, along with very knowledgeable brewery staff, on hand to pour their respective beers.
So it’s no surprise that whenever I asked for various details about a particular beer or brewery, I received clear and insightful information.
It’ll be a similar setup at the Opening Gala, which I’m now even more excited about attending.
Opening Gala tickets are currently available for purchase.
Cheers! Prost! Gunbae!
~Andy