It's Pub Night

The last few years have seen explosive growth for beloved California brewer Lagunitas .  This Beerpulse article says production increased b...

The Silicon Valley underwhelms with its beer scene, which is odd considering its affluence and large population. But recently I found out...

I almost never blog about bloggers, or blog about blogging, since this is a beer blog, not a blog blog.  But the departure of Brewpublic fo...

In college we used to say, "You don't buy beer, you rent it".  That statement may become more true than ever if a trend that s...

The weekend I recently spent in Oakland happened to coincide with the final days of San Francisco's annual SF Beer Week. That was why ...

Last month I had to spend a week in the Silicon Valley on business.  I took the opportunity to spend the preceding weekend in Oakland and ch...

The forested little town of Dunsmuir, California, is a convenient stopping point when driving I-5 between Portland and San Francisco.  That...

Last week I wrote up a visit to the Lagunitas Taproom , the first stop on a day trip out of the city on a recent trip to San Francisco.  Wit...

Last Saturday when Dave and I were in San Francisco visiting our friend Andy, the three of us made a pilgrimage north to Petaluma to the Lag...

Last month there was a fair amount of chatter on Beervana , the New School , and even here about Ezra's racy label for Upright's ch...

This week I was in the Silicon Valley for work. Not my favorite place in the world, but I was determined to make the best of it. The rental ...

While waiting in line at the Rooftop Coffee Bar at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art earlier this week, I couldn't help but overhea...

I spent last week at my company's headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. We have a teenage fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in our hous...

Hop bombs. They're not for everyone, but I love them. I borrowed Dave's bottle of Deschutes' Experimental Hop Henge to photo...

One of my favorite hobbies is belittling California fresh-hop ales. And I had a couple of posts this summer slamming expensive Californi...

It's a beautiful thing that Russian River beers are now distributed in Oregon. I tried a Blind Pig IPA for the first time recently, and...

Bringing fresh-hop beer into Oregon is like carrying brown ale to Newcastle. With something like 41 wet-hop beers on offer around the state...

What a wasteland! Once I got past security at terminal C of Mineta Airport, my only draft beer options were Bud and Bud Light at the sports-...

There's nothing like a trip to the Silicon Valley to make you appreciate Portland's pub culture. The intrepid West Coast Good Beer ...

Here we go with another installment of beery adventures that took place when my Texas friends were in town a couple weeks ago. In addition ...