The Barleywine festival in San Francisco…

by Kevin Blum @ City Dish

This drinking deal is dedicated to all the ladies out there.

The Royal Exchange has just unveiled a tasty, new cocktail menu with a strong feminine bent. The Financial District’s favorite bar & grill is pouring female-friendly libations like the Royal Punch, the Passionate Kiss, the Blueberry Martini, the Chocolate Martini, the Angel Food Cake Martini, and a variety of champagne cocktails. Best of all, these female-friendly beverages are just $6.75 – ALL DAY LONG!

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What better way to start off Superbowl Sunday than with a Beerunch?  Put aside your mimosas and Bloody Mary’s, there’s nothing quite like pairing beers with some of your favorite breakfast dishes. We headed out to MateVeza’s beer paired brunch at Kelly’s Mission Rock, and indulged in a multi-course breakfast with some of the bay area’s best beers complementing our morning foods.

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Drink Me Magazine and BeerandSoul.com present – Broke Ass Stuart and Cicerone Sayre in “The Original Swagger Stagger

A few months back Men’s Journal released their list of the top five beer towns in the US.  While not really having a major beef with any of their choices, San Diego, NYC, Portland, Philly and Chicago, I was a bit annoyed to see no mention of the Bay Area.

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by Sayre Piotrkowski

Monday February 8^th – Monday is a great night for a beer lover to be in Berkeley. Bobby G’s Pizzeria will be hosting Brian Hunt of Moonlight Brewing Company. Jupiter and Triple Rock will be holding their annual “Sour Fest,” an event celebrating the lip-smacking cheek-puckering styles that are the latest fetish/frontier/focus/fascination for risk-taking craft-brewers throughout the West Coast.   All three of these locations are within about a quarter-mile of one another, and Downtown Berkeley BART.

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We welcomed SF Beer Week at their opening gala on Friday at Yerba Buena Center. We were joined by some of the best brewers in the area and their delicious brews. A few hundred people wandered around and indulged in tastings of dozens of delicious beers. There was nice side dishes to nosh on including tacolicious and sushi and a couple of live bands. If this is any sign of what to come, it’s going to be a great Beer Week.  Keep an eye out for more on Drink Me’s website and in our print version around beer week.

By Brian Yaeger

Article from Issue Six

Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
-Shakespeare

Before there were braumeisters or brewmasters, people made beer quite by accident. As legend has it (legend being “anthropology”), some ancient Sumerian left his bread out in the rain and, not being a wasteful fellow, ate or drank from the resulting pudding and immediately was a hit at the Sumerian frat parties.  The bread’s grains, combined with water, somehow mysteriously turned into a beverage that packed a wallop. Before long, anthropologically speaking, Sumerians had their first beer goddess, Ninkasi. They didn’t know it at the time, but it was thanks to the magic of fermentation.
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An announcement this week by international Beer producer Anheuser-Busch InBev that they are going to cut jobs has spawned a protest among its existing workers. BBC reported that a blockade has stopped the flow of beer out of one of the company’s headquarters. (more…)

Drinking in a tropical country, it’s easy to figure out that 5 minutes after you pour your beer into the mug (even if it’s frosted), you’re sipping warm ale… Countries have all found their own ways to keep them cold, even as you’re drinking.  In the Dominican Republic, they’ll set their freezers just low enough so the beers won’t explode, and serve you up a cerveza slushy.  (more…)