Tag Archives: Bistro

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. [...]

Tipsy Coverage of The Bistro’s Barrel Aged Festival 2009

As someone with a mild fixation on rare beers (see here and here for examples) that even eight months in Nicaragua couldn’t properly efface, it’s still rare for me to find myself making wishlists, trailing off mid-sentence into thoughts of obscure tap handles, and sleeping as unsoundly as a child on Christmas Eve. I will refrain [...]

Northern California Rare Beer Roundup – November 2009

The season’s heirloom tomatoes are all but kaput, I’ve busted out a goofy white hat to wear under my biking helmet, and our cat’s affections (I’ve done some back-of-the-envelope calculations) are inversely proportional to our house’s temperature. Some things change, but rare kegs and bottles remain incapable of drinking themselves. This is your November 2009 NorCal Rare Beer Roundup.