Local Beer Gardens and Micro-Brews in General
Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2018 1:40 am
I started noting there was a better brew to be had about the time (in the 80's) when Killian's Red started hitting the shelves.
" George Killian's Irish Red: Premium Lager is a 5.4% abv amber lager brewed by Coors. The brand name was purchased only for sale in the North-American market by Coors from the Pelforth Brewery (Heineken France), who had previously bought it from Lett's Brewery in Ireland, which had closed in 1956..."
it was later that I came across Anchor Steam, a beer with much history and certainly no earthly connection to that stuff only worth cooling yourself off with, on the front porch, after cutting the lawn; Budweiser, Coors, and the like.
Anchor Steam was a revelation; it was Local and had History. I mean History, and out here with the West the way things are, going back to, (and past) the historic 1906 Earthquake makes you bit of the Living Granite of the Earth's very Mantle.
As with both Killian's and Anchor Steam, things often succumb to success and they don't seem to be made, and don't seem to taste, the same any more.
Still, I have often raved over the Rip Tide Red (but only from the keg tap) brewed by the Beach Chalet (walk out the door, cross Highway 1 and you can swim to Asia...), and there seems to be some thing I found at a local supermarket chain called Double Shock Double Hop Shark Bite... wait. Shark Attack Double Red Ale, heh heh, funny what the tricks yer memory can play. That too, that stuff is pretty good and worth drinking.
Come the turn of the last Century and a lot of folks started these things called Micro-Brews and opening up tap rooms.
Here we are in the 21st Century and while 'the City' is assailed by Gentrification forces based on Silicon Valley payrolls and economic forces, the surrounding areas that make up the San Francisco Bay Area metroplex have also been shouldering their own push ad pull as 'the more things stay the same, the more they change...".
Thus fun stuff has begun to happen in Oakland. Oakland of the Dead Zone that is Downtown, Oakland where folks stage gunfights in the streets and nobody would want to be caught live in, after dark, not Oakland...
Well, just today I came across this entry in terms of keeping up to date with stuff as it happens:
http://www.sfchronicle.com/food/article ... 264628.php
Here's a somewhat related tie in (I searched fast and loose, I'm sure there is a better link...)
http://wapsisquare.com/comic/schnitzelbank/
(Oh look, it's almost 11pm, time to sign off...)
" George Killian's Irish Red: Premium Lager is a 5.4% abv amber lager brewed by Coors. The brand name was purchased only for sale in the North-American market by Coors from the Pelforth Brewery (Heineken France), who had previously bought it from Lett's Brewery in Ireland, which had closed in 1956..."
it was later that I came across Anchor Steam, a beer with much history and certainly no earthly connection to that stuff only worth cooling yourself off with, on the front porch, after cutting the lawn; Budweiser, Coors, and the like.
Anchor Steam was a revelation; it was Local and had History. I mean History, and out here with the West the way things are, going back to, (and past) the historic 1906 Earthquake makes you bit of the Living Granite of the Earth's very Mantle.
As with both Killian's and Anchor Steam, things often succumb to success and they don't seem to be made, and don't seem to taste, the same any more.
Still, I have often raved over the Rip Tide Red (but only from the keg tap) brewed by the Beach Chalet (walk out the door, cross Highway 1 and you can swim to Asia...), and there seems to be some thing I found at a local supermarket chain called Double Shock Double Hop Shark Bite... wait. Shark Attack Double Red Ale, heh heh, funny what the tricks yer memory can play. That too, that stuff is pretty good and worth drinking.
Come the turn of the last Century and a lot of folks started these things called Micro-Brews and opening up tap rooms.
Here we are in the 21st Century and while 'the City' is assailed by Gentrification forces based on Silicon Valley payrolls and economic forces, the surrounding areas that make up the San Francisco Bay Area metroplex have also been shouldering their own push ad pull as 'the more things stay the same, the more they change...".
Thus fun stuff has begun to happen in Oakland. Oakland of the Dead Zone that is Downtown, Oakland where folks stage gunfights in the streets and nobody would want to be caught live in, after dark, not Oakland...
Well, just today I came across this entry in terms of keeping up to date with stuff as it happens:
http://www.sfchronicle.com/food/article ... 264628.php
Here's a somewhat related tie in (I searched fast and loose, I'm sure there is a better link...)
http://wapsisquare.com/comic/schnitzelbank/
(Oh look, it's almost 11pm, time to sign off...)