Author Archives: Eric Pietras

SF Beer Week in Review

Posted on February 16, 2014 by Eric Pietras

SF Beer Week 2014 ended for me Saturday night. SF Water And Health Food Week begins presently. All told, I managed to carve my own little festival out of the huge number of events, and had a damn good bit … Continue reading →

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SFBW 2014 gala: in pictures

Posted on February 9, 2014 by Eric Pietras

If a picture is worth a thousand words, it’s probably a good thing because my camera contains the greater part of my beer list from Friday’s gala once I became too lazy/inebriated to take useful notes, instead resorting to pointing … Continue reading →

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SF Photo Sunday: Southern Pacific Brewing

Posted on August 4, 2013 by Eric Pietras

A Saturday evening winds up Mission-side at Southern Pacific Brewing. SoPac’s been open a shade longer than a year and a half and the mostly West Coast-styled beer lineup (as well occasional barrel-aged releases and a nice interpretation of a … Continue reading →

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Photo Friday: Shotwells

Posted on July 12, 2013 by Eric Pietras

Typical scene for this (underrated) Mission District beer bar on a weekend evening. Good tap and bottle selection, knowledgeable barkeeps, never too crowded but definitely not dead. The off-the-main-thoroughfare corner location always reminds me of my favorite low-key Chicago haunts … Continue reading →

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Photo Sunday: Ein Dunkles, bitte!

Posted on June 23, 2013 by Eric Pietras

Munich Dunkel on the boil at Rick and Jen’s. It’s a fairly under-represented style that I’d love to see more of in the Bay Area. In the meantime, might as well brew our own…

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Saturday Afternoon Picture Show: It Begins

Posted on February 9, 2013 by Eric Pietras

And so it was that at the stroke of 6 last night (or 5, depending), SF Beer Week 2013 began in earnest with the Opening Celebration at the Concourse. It was, of course, an excellent, beery time, and despite a … Continue reading →

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Photo Friday: Yesterday’s East Bay Beer

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Eric Pietras

Jen’s been doing a considerable amount of historical digging for an upcoming special feature on Oakland and Berkeley’s pre-Prohibition breweries. Last Saturday I trekked with her through the East Bay, camera in hand, as we visited the places where these … Continue reading →

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Photo Wednesday: Happy New Year

Posted on January 2, 2013 by Eric Pietras

It’s not quite Friday yet, but an early post is called for. Hope you all had a great New Year’s Eve (if not the next day). As for us, we made our way to Triple Rock to kick 2012 out … Continue reading →

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Photo Friday: Something for Christmas

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Eric Pietras

It’s the holidays, so it’s off to the Midwest with me (and not the parts where fun beer photos will be taken, alas). So here’s a little photographic holiday memory from 2010 I unearthed in my archive: My wife and … Continue reading →

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Photo Friday: Tuns of Fun in San Francisco

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Eric Pietras

Monday marked the annual UCSF Brewers’ Guild meetup at Anchor Brewing. Yes, it may seem initially surprising that this somewhat dull-ish UC branch across the bay from the more spry Berkeley campus might contain such awesomeness. But then again, UCSF … Continue reading →

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