SF Beer Week

It started at Anchor Steam and ended at a big party in Oakland a week later. Every day there was some event some where in the Bay Area celebrating beer. Highlights include the Double IPA festival at the Bistro, Toronado's Barley Wine Festival, the Celebrator anniversay party, and all kinds of things in between.

Homework

Find a beer week and make plans to attend it.

Links:

http://www.1234567890day.com/

http://revision3.com/rev3gazette/party1234567890/

http://www.sfbeerweek.org/

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Hosts: John Foster and Motor

Guest: Gabby

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Good noon! Recorded in San Francisco on 2/16/2009.

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Beer in Review 2008

We wrap up the year with a beer in review show. this is where we pick our top three beers, rap about festivals like beer week, chat about taxes and tell you about the upcoming trip to San Diego to open Toronado then back to San Francisco to close the same. That trips isn’t going to happen on the dates said in the show so stand by for the new plan.

Topics covering 2008

Craft Brewers Conference in San Diego

InBev buys AB

Miller and Coors merge

Big brewing down to two giants

Budwieser makes a new brand

American Ale

Old brands making a come back.

75 years of the repeal of prohibition

prohibitionist still very organized

increasing taxes

lowering the acceptable BAC

smear campaigns

Beer Festivals in no particular order

Bistro

Double IPA

Hop Rysom

IPA

Barrel Aged

Oregon Brewers Festival

Anderson Valley

Breast Fest

Firken Fest

no GABF again

FresYES!

Octoberfest

Cinco De Cember

my new holiday

http://cincodecember.com/

Top Three Beers

Motor

Ruby - McMinimums

Repeal Ale - 21st Amendment

Sarah’s Ruby - Mild Magnolia

John

Deschutes - Black Butte XX

Effing Great - Valley Brewing

Harvest - Sierra Nevada

Notable

Myers Scotch Ale the first batch

Lagunitus Pale - the reformulated Kill Ugly Radio

Stone - XII

every IPA

other beer we talked about

for some reason my notes have the words chicken, sheep, cow on the notes page. and the number 55:07. also the URL bubbleocity.com.

Beers on the Show:

Sierra Nevada Celebration 2008. or maybe it was Coors Light. 

Homework:

the year ahead is full of festivals. plan ahead to get good deals on travel. and post the dates of your local festivals on your fridge.

Related past:

http://www.beerschool.com/144/beer-in-review/

everywhere:

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Hosts: John Foster and Motor

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Good noon! Recorded in San Francisco on 01/04/2009.

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Closet Cleaning

There were a bunch of beers in boxes that we needed to drink to make more room for 2009. We hang out with Thomas and geek about beer, the difference engine, Apple IIs, 80's pop and the local beer scene.

Mime School coming soon.

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Hosts: John Foster and Motor

Special Guest: Thomas

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Good noon! Recorded in San Francisco on 12/20/2008.

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Repeal Day

Prohibition was repealed earlier in 1933 but the change to the amendement did not come into affect until December the 5th. On this day beer was delivered to President Roosevelt  who exclaimed "I think this would be a good time for a beer."

2008 resembles 1933 in lots of different ways. Bank bailouts, financial ruin, people losing their homes and different groups trying to force their views onto the people. Prop 8 passing in California is a good example of this. Do a search for 1933 to see for yourself.

Homework

Enjoy a beer, wine or something mixed on December 5th. it's your constitutional right.

Links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-first_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrewing_beer

http://www.albany.edu/~wm731882/21st_amendment_final.html

Repeal Day as a party

http://www.jeffreymorgenthaler.com/category/repeal-day/?order=asc

History of Prohibition

http://www.prohibitionrepeal.com/history/

http://standarddrinks.com/tool.asp

Jay Brooks on taxes

http://www.brookstonbeerbulletin.com/who-watches-the-watchdog/

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Good noon! Recorded in San Francisco on 11/30/2008.

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Holiday Beer Part 3

One of the best things about the coming seasonal tradition is that everyone makes beer especially for the occasion. You can love, hate, or just be indifferent about being forced to celebrate but you cannot ignore the beer.

There are so many that you can try. But we started with what we consider to be the grand father of this style.

Beers on the Show:

Two homebrew, Anchor Holiday, Siearra Nevada Celebration and 21st Amendment Holiday Spiced Ale.

Homework

Try something made for the holiday in a bottle or at your local.

Related past:

http://www.beerschool.com/134/holiday-beer-part-1/

http://www.beerschool.com/140/holiday-beer-part-2/

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Hosts: John Foster and Motor

Guests: Susan, Steven ( and Honore).

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Good noon! Recorded in San Francisco on 11/25/2008.

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One Beer One Hundred Days

The homework is what defined this show which was to buy two cases of something fresh then drink a beer every three days for 100 days. You have to take notes as you go noted that "nothing changed" or "it's changing" or "I like/don't like it anymore." It's the freshness experiment.

Part of idea of doing this homework comes from us noting how beer changes over time at breweries that we visit. Sometimes beer changes for the better as it ages. We've also noticed that beer peaks. It gets really good at some point in it's life but from then on it's never as good.

There are many factors that make a beer change over time some of these things act in tandem. Heat, light, cold, varying temperature, and time.

Homework

See above. Be sure to report back what you find at the end of your two cases!

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Good noon! Recorded in San Francisco on 10/26/2008.

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Pumpkin

You’re kidding right? Drinking a beer made with parts of pumpkin? Serious? Yessir. This time of year is when the pumpkin beers appear. And as weird as you might think that is the beer is actually pretty good. Okay, we admit that pumpkin isn’t something that we’re going to seek out. It’s not going to become our go to beer any time soon. But it is an interesting thing to take to the football or costume party. While you might only have one you’ll be a braver person because of it.

Beers on the show:

Buffalo Bill’s Brewing Pumpkin Ale, Shipyard Brewing Pumpkin Head, Dogfish Head Punkin Ale, Brewery Ommegand Chocolate Indulgence and Calabaza Blanca from Jolly Pumpkin.

Homework:

Seek out a local pumpkin beer that might be at your brewery or from your bottle shop.

Beer School everywhere:

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http://youtube.com/beerschool

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Host: John Foster and Motor.

Guests: Chris White (not from White Labs) and Tom Mahady from the Beer and Salad show.

Be sure to visit Magnolia in San Francisco for the best pumpkin beer ever.

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Good noon! Recorded in San Francisco on 10/12/2008.

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Five

We’ve talked about your Next Four Beers and Another Four beers. This time we’re asking you to try 5. These beers are off the beaten path and away from “normal” tasting beer. You don’t have to drink these specific beers because you might have trouble finding all of them. All we’re asking is that you go to your edge to try things you wouldn’t normally drink.

Beers on the show:

Arrogant Bastard from Stone, Triple Bock from Sam Adams, Oude Geuze, Negra Modelo, and random home brew that might have been made with a Mr. Beer kit.

Homework:

Try a home brew and go to the edge.

Beer School everywhere:

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Hosts: John Foster and Motor

Guest: Honore

Be sure to visit Toronado in San Fracisco, CA.

Email us at [email protected]

Good noon! Recorded in San Francisco on 10/12/2008.

BeerSchool, BeerSchool.com, and "the homework is beer" are a trademarks of Ayer Media, Inc. © 2008 Ayer Media, Inc.

Octoberfest with MacorMcQue

In the USofA Octoberfest is celebrated in October. Mostly because the people here would get confused if it started in September like it does in Munich. No matter because any excuse to drink beer and have great food is a good excuse. MacorMcQue a brewer from Gordon Biersch joins us with samples of three different Octoberfest beers made from the same recipe. Oh yeah, it should be spelled with a K.

Stats on 2008

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,582509,00.html">

History of the event.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oktoberfest

Patrick Stewart is a pervert.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5204529628282350389

1941

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdUCu-A7tgg

Beers on the show:

Gordon Biersch from three different breweries. All made from the same recipe.

Homework:

Experience Octoberfest in your local where ever that is. Or plan a trip to Munich for 2009.

Beer School everywhere:

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=6351328213

http://youtube.com/beerschool

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Host: John Foster,

Guests: MacorMcQue from GB

Be sure to visit Gordon Biersch in Hawaii or Burbank.

Email us at [email protected]

Good noon! Recorded in San Francisco on 10/05/2008.

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© 2008 Ayer Media, Inc.

the Beer Geek dot com

Dreaming is free, but actually doing it is very expensive. Chris and Meredith are traveling the world experiencing festivals, breweries and pubs around the world. They declared that 2008 was the year in beer and have gone to a beer event or destination each month.

links:

http://thebeergeek.com

http://www.wynkoop.com/happenings_drinker.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oktoberfest

http://www.floggingmolly.com/

homework:

Travel to beer. Go to a festival. Take a train to beer. Or find beer where ever you happen to go.

Beer on the show:

Firestone Walker Union Jack

Beer School everywhere:

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Host: John Foster,

Guests: Chris and Meredith

Be sure to visit 21st Amendment, Thirsty Bear or Magnolia in San Francisco, CA

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Good noon! Recorded in San Francisco on 08/31/2008.

BeerSchool, BeerSchool.com, "the homework is beer" are a trademarks of Ayer Media, Inc.

© 2008 Ayer Media, Inc.