Tag Archives: AleSmith Brewing Company

How We Lived to Tell the Tale of Woodshop 5.0

Perhaps you’ve already heard about Woodshop 5.0. Perhaps you’ve overheard a friend waxing philosophically about the event: wide-eyed, fidgeting, looking over your shoulder at something distant. Perhaps you’ve even perused the various online threads and thought, “It sounds cool… but I’m not really into carpentry.” [...]

SF Beer Week 2010: Bistro’s DIPA Festival, Alesmith at City Beer

With Pliny the Younger prematurely kaput and the Opening Gala merely a memory, San Francisco Beer Week kicked into full swing this weekend with high-profile events at The Bistro, City Beer Store, and Toronado. Highlights inside. [...]

SF Beer Week 2010: An Insider’s Guide to San Francisco Beer Week

Can’t decide between the 180+ (and growing) San Francisco Beer Week events? Wish you knew more about different beer lists and special taps? Does the full SFBW schedule seem like both pornography and homework? Well, you’ve come to the right place. [...]

The Top 10 Winter Holiday Beers of Ratebeer.com

There’s already a list of the top seasonal beers on Ratebeer, which is great for people curious about what they should seek out at particular times of year, but it’s not really the sort of list that I think about when the holidays roll around. [...]

The Things One Keeps in Empty Bottles of Rare Beer

My wife and I recently moved to Sebastopol, California, a city we’d decided upon as an ideal spot for ourselves during our three-month road trip a year previous: crunchy, quiet, heavily walkable, good beer. All of the places we’d lived before had been determined by school, from sunless Pittsburgh to lake-effect snowfall in upstate New [...]