It’s summer, and that means time to break out the grill and throw down a few sausages. While beer and sausage is as cliched a pairing as there is, it’s one ripe with possibilities. Sausages go way beyond some ground pork or beef and a casing. As the chefs on display at CUESA’s Sausage & [...]
Local: Mission Eatery wants to be much more than a restaurant. It’s a combination of a sandwich shop, bakery, cookbook library, pop-up restaurant, and cooking class space. I’ve tried most of these iterations – the brioche at Knead is outstanding, the braised lamb sandwich is my favorite, the prix fixe dinner is an outstanding deal [...]
Black Star is a classic American Pilsner, with a light dry hopping touch. It’s crisp, clean, and great for a summer day. It’s interesting to see a craft take on a style so thoroughly consumed by corporate beer behemoths. Chad Newton’s Parcel BBQ is exactly what it claims to be – classic american BBQ, [...]
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Opening day of Hapa Ramen seemed to go smoothly. Water boiled easily, and three hundred servings of ramen went out the door without incident (OK, maybe a few plastic things were melted. but that’s a sign of too much heat, and that’s a happy problem is have under the circumstances.) My bowl was rich and [...]
On Thursday nights on Clara street, you can smell a wisp of malt aroma drifting through SOMA. Follow the aroma down a thin alley street, by garage doors and parked cars, and you’ll find an open garage as the source. Poke inside and you’ll find Patrick Horn of Pacific Brewing Laboratories and Bryan Hermannsson of [...]
One last post on my epic Portland adventure, then it’s back to business as usual at ye ‘ol SF beer blog. Luckily, this last one is a great one. For our last brunch in Portland, we headed over to Screen Door. I was forewarned that I would be getting the chicken and waffles. They were right.
When I planned my trip up to Portland, there was one brewery above all others I was interested in visiting: Cascade Brewing at the Raccoon Lodge. They brew inspired, sour ales that are uniquely American. Their beers have slowly been creeping into San Francisco area by way of City Beer Store and Beer Revolution (You [...]
