Celebrate Chanukah in beery style
Celebrate Chanukah on Thursday with Taps in Petaluma and one-time Bay Area brewery Shmaltz.
Hopmonk collects toys for holidays
All three Hopmonk Tavern locations - Sebastopol, Sonoma, and Novato - will be collecting donations of toys for the holidays from Monday through Sunday this week, Dec. 2-8. Owner Dean Biersch says he will give a $5 gift card to everyone who brings in a donation (that's one card per [...]
Battle of Brews to benefit Challenger Little League
Battle of the Brews in 2014 will benefit North Bay Challenger Little League.
More on Beer, Cider, and Spirits conference
Beer business is booming, but the age of the lager is fading, Lagunitas founder tells first ever Sonoma County Beer, Cider, and Spirits conference.
Sonoma County Beer, Cider, and Spirits conference takes shape
Lineup set for first ever conference on Sonoma County's booming artisan beverage industry.
Beer and cheese pairing event at UC Davis
Saturday event at UC Davis highlights joys of pairing cheese and beer.
Mendocino hosts ‘Mushroom, Wine & Beer’ fest
Shrooms and brews are on the menu at an upcoming fest.
Beer fun for the weekend
If you haven't gotten your tickets for Sierra Nevada's outstanding-looking Single, Fresh, Wet & Wild festival on Saturday, forget it. The brewery says all tickets are sold out. Same with the 10th annual Brews on the Bay in San Francisco. If any of you are going to either of these [...]
Marin Brewing Blood Drive on Saturday
Marin Brewing is teaming up with Blood Centers of the Pacific for their semiannual blood drive on Saturday. The bloodmobile will be at brewpub in Larkspur, 1809 Larkspur Landing Circle, from noon to 5 p.m. Donors will receive a free meal from the brewpub, they say. This is the 10th [...]
Almanac Beer invades Rincon Valley
As if there weren't enough fun beer things to do this weekend, what with the Sonoma County Harvest Fair on Saturday and the weekend-long Octubrefest at Carneros Brewing, here's yet another outstanding option: Almanac Beer from San Francisco will be taking over the tasting room at Rincon Valley Wine & [...]
Harvest Fair adds beer to tasting lineup
Proving that Wine Country is in fact also Beer Country, the annual Sonoma County Harvest Fair is offering a lineup of local beers this weekend. The tasting pavilion, traditionally the stomping ground for wine, will feature brew pours from Dempsey’s, Fogbelt Brewing, Lagunitas, Bear Republic, 101 North, HenHouse, and [...]
Happy National Drink Beer Day
Ok, we need another National [insert subject here] Day like yet another hole in our heads but here goes anyway, just because this happens to be in favor of our favorite passtime: Today happens to be National Drink Beer Day. So drink up everybody (though no driving afterward, right? Same [...]
Oktoberfest season is upon us
One of the interesting things about Oktoberfest is that it really doesn't happen in October, at least not mostly. Traditionally, the two-week Oktoberfest starts in mid-September and wraps up the first week in October. That means Oktoberfest is pretty much right now. If you can't make it to Germany, there [...]
Beer Advocates-in-Chief do Sonoma County
Beer Advocates-in-Chief Jason and Todd Alstrom, founders of Beer Advocate magazine and website, will be hitting some locations in Sonoma County on Wednesday, part of a West Coast tour that started with a session at Sierra Nevada's annual Beer Camp in Chico. The brothers will be hitting Bear Republic from [...]
buyer at Fircrest Market in Sebastopol and the administrator of the NorCal Beer Geeks group on Facebook.