beer

18 Feb 2010

FREE Tours at Chelsea Brewery

Do you ever look into your frosty alcoholic beverage and think: What makes you so delicious, beer?  How do you taste so good?  Then, do you ever think: Why do I want ten more of you?  Now it is possible to get answers to the first two and more (the

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12 Feb 2010

Upgrade Your Comfort Foods: Drinking at Breakfast (Again.)

We’ve talked before about brunch, but since the weekend is coming up and you’ll (hopefully) be sharing some pre-noon cocktails with that special someone this weekend, I thought I’d focus today on those alcoholic beverages which are deemed acceptable breakfast-fare by the general population. Everyone is familiar with the ubiquitous

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10 Feb 2010

Drink Up for the Pups: Tonight at Elixir

This one should resonate with all the dog people and vegans in the audience: Rocket Dog Rescue has rescued a couple pups that need some expensive surgery so they’ll be holding a drink up/fundraiser at Elixir in the Mission tonight to help pay for their Vet bills. $1 from the

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08 Feb 2010

Celebrate SF Beer Week with FREE Food and Cheap Pints

So, as you may have noticed from the Swagger Stagger video I was in: it’s SF Beer Week!  And today there is a dope event going on that even you, my dear broke-asses, can afford to attend. Wes Anderson and Kenny Scherr from the Whole Foods in Potrero Hill, have

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08 Feb 2010

The Swagger Stagger: Walking San Francisco in Search of Good Beer

My good friend, Sayre Piotrkowski, is one of the only Cicerones (a beer sommelier) in the Bay Area.  While we used to drink lots and lots of Budweiser together in college, his tastes have matured while mine have apparently stayed fairly pedestrian.  Because of this he decided to honor SF

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08 Feb 2010

San Francisco Brewcraft

  So you wanna be a beer brewer? At SF Brewcraft you get all the gear you need and the ingredients to brew 5 gallons of the beer of your choice, plus a free step-by-step brewing class all for $94. Sweet right? Plus you get to go in and hang out

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30 Dec 2009

Goodbye Blue Monday = FREE Shows

One of the many, many, many things visible when looking at the stage in Goodbye Blue Monday is a large painted sign reading FLOTSAM AND JETSAM. It could easily be a random find in an ocean of random finds. But at this cafe/bar/venue/junkstore in Bushwick it feels more like a

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28 Dec 2009

Student Discount and $3.50 Happy Hour Draughts at Bistro Gambrinus

‘œ..and through, thine intercession, I pray the blessed brewers, have made this, my beer, delicious. Amen’ I suppose, the city’s pre-occupation with food and its proximity to a Jesuit university explains the existence of a Euro-centric grub pub that’s named after the patron saint of beer. Whereas Bistro Gambrinus may

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