Bay Area Thread

[drgarage1]

Not a coffee drinker, but this looks good!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1438832216371321/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular

Coffee and Cigarettes cask on Sightglass, Blue Bottle and Four Barrel beans

Want. Bottles.

Growlers, my boy! Small format growlers. Wave of the future.

 

[loeyjarko]

Hng

 

[loeyjarko]

drgarage Ryan_G let's go get a beer soon!

 

[drgarage1]

drgarage Ryan_G let's go get a beer soon!

Yes!

jtmartino and I are talking about hitting Cellarmaker tomorrow or Wednesday, but I'm open to other ideas -- out of town this weekend, though.

 

[RyanG1]

drgarage Ryan_G let's go get a beer soon!

Yes!

jtmartino and I are talking about hitting Cellarmaker tomorrow or Wednesday, but I'm open to other ideas -- out of town this weekend, though.

Yes. I am down. The new stuff on tap is gooood!

 

[drgarage1]

Yes. I am down. The new stuff on tap is gooood!

I haven't had Otto's yet, but I was definitely a fan of Smug Alert, of the newest stuff.

Edit: And Tiny Dankster is one of my favorites of theirs ever.

 

[loeyjarko]

I'm down any time between today and Wednesday after 6pm or so

 

[jtmartino1]

Let's do Wednesday!

 

[RyanG1]

Hat tip to loeyjarko

Since my MUNi commute is a walk home

Societe's Pupil, Dandy, Butcher and another on tap at City Beer Store.

 

[loeyjarko]

Hat tip to loeyjarko

Since my MUNi commute is a walk home

Societe's Pupil, Dandy, Butcher and another on tap at City Beer Store.

Shouldn't but might be there

 

[drgarage1]

Hat tip to loeyjarko

Since my MUNi commute is a walk home

Societe's Pupil, Dandy, Butcher and another on tap at City Beer Store.

Hmm. Today's training run might now have a new destination.

 

[jedwards]

I'm in town briefly apartment-hunting (I'll be back permanently at the end of June), going to hit up Mikkeler Bar tonight for the tap takeover if anyone's heading over and wants to say hello.

 

[drgarage1]

I'm in town briefly apartment-hunting (I'll be back permanently at the end of June), going to hit up Mikkeler Bar tonight for the tap takeover if anyone's heading over and wants to say hello.

Good look with the hunt -- it's ugly right now. But, in my opinion, totally worth it.

 

[loeyjarko]

I'm in town briefly apartment-hunting (I'll be back permanently at the end of June), going to hit up Mikkeler Bar tonight for the tap takeover if anyone's heading over and wants to say hello.

Oh god please no. Come to city beer

 

[RyanG1]

Good look with the hunt -- it's ugly right now. But, in my opinion, totally worth it.

Man, it was ugly years, ago. Cannot imagine what the search is like now!

And skip Mikkeller it is alll their own beers on tap tonight, so nothing good. GO TO CITY BEER STORE!

 

[jedwards]

Hahah, I hear that. Already promised to meet a friend, but maybe will head to City afterwards. I've got my new keys in hand, so seems like a good night to celebrate

 

[JohnfromPurdue]

I'm trying to plan a trip where I drive from Portland to San Francisco. I'd be staying in SF 4 days. Apparently parking in SF is very expensive so I'm trying to find a park and ride to stash the car for 4 days and take public transit. I'm looking at the Manzanita park and ride or Spencer bus pad since we'll be coming from Russian River. So I have a few questions:

1) Can you park overnight at either of those?
2) Are there other options I'm missing?
3) Do you have to pay to park there?


We're looking at the second week in September if that matters. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

 

[RyanG1]

I'm trying to plan a trip where I drive from Portland to San Francisco. I'd be staying in SF 4 days. Apparently parking in SF is very expensive so I'm trying to find a park and ride to stash the car for 4 days and take public transit. I'm looking at the Manzanita park and ride or Spencer bus pad since we'll be coming from Russian River. So I have a few questions:

1) Can you park overnight at either of those?
2) Are there other options I'm missing?
3) Do you have to pay to park there?


We're looking at the second week in September if that matters. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

I would only park for 24 hours before you probably start receiving citations and eventually a tow, which will be more expensive than SF parking. Skip the hassle and park in the City. There are garages that are not prohibitively expensive. And if you are staying over a weekend, you can park your car in whatever neighborhood you are staying in, since the neighborhood permits are not valid from Friday evening until Monday early morning.

http://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/parking/parking-garages

 

[jtmartino1]

I'm trying to plan a trip where I drive from Portland to San Francisco. I'd be staying in SF 4 days. Apparently parking in SF is very expensive so I'm trying to find a park and ride to stash the car for 4 days and take public transit. I'm looking at the Manzanita park and ride or Spencer bus pad since we'll be coming from Russian River. So I have a few questions:

1) Can you park overnight at either of those?
2) Are there other options I'm missing?
3) Do you have to pay to park there?


We're looking at the second week in September if that matters. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

There are a handful of garages that charge $8-10/day. Take a look here.

Alternatively, you can do airport/long-term parking at some of the BART stations (Colma, South SF, San Bruno, Millbrae) for $6 a day, or free on Saturday/Sunday (at least at Millbrae). Then take the BART into downtown. If you come Friday-Monday, that's ~$20 including BART fare to get around the city.

 

[JohnfromPurdue]

I would only park for 24 hours before you probably start receiving citations and eventually a tow, which will be more expensive than SF parking. Skip the hassle and park in the City. There are garages that are not prohibitively expensive. And if you are staying over a weekend, you can park your car in whatever neighborhood you are staying in, since the neighborhood permits are not valid from Friday evening until Monday early morning.

http://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/parking/parking-garages

There are a handful of garages that charge $8-10/day. Take a look here.

Alternatively, you can do airport/long-term parking at some of the BART stations (Colma, South SF, San Bruno, Millbrae) for $6 a day, or free on Saturday/Sunday (at least at Millbrae). Then take the BART into downtown. If you come Friday-Monday, that's ~$20 including BART fare to get around the city.

Thanks guys!

 

[matedog]

I would only park for 24 hours before you probably start receiving citations and eventually a tow, which will be more expensive than SF parking. Skip the hassle and park in the City. There are garages that are not prohibitively expensive. And if you are staying over a weekend, you can park your car in whatever neighborhood you are staying in, since the neighborhood permits are not valid from Friday evening until Monday early morning.

http://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/parking/parking-garages

There are streets without daily permits. For example, north of Haight St. in Lower Haight is only street sweeping once a week. Depending on where you are staying, you can drop your car off there (LEAVE NOTHING VISIBLE IN YOUR CAR) and pick it up when you are ready to leave.

 

[buzzword]

Anyone else go to city beer tonight? Forgot about the RR thing and set up a meeting there. I had a b3 and b4 temptation while I waited for him to show up, and when he did there was a line outside.



Cool story, walter.




B4 was better btw...

 

[jtmartino1]

Anyone else go to city beer tonight? Forgot about the RR thing and set up a meeting there. I had a b3 and b4 temptation while I waited for him to show up, and when he did there was a line outside.



Cool story, walter.




B4 was better btw...

We were there! drgarage, Ryan_G, grrrah, loeyjarko and I stopped by after a couple beers at Cellarmaker. That '09 Supplication was my fav. Suuuper good.

 

[stupac2]

B4 was better btw...

Expected. When I saw that they'd have Temptation B4 on I was wondering why the hell they were pimping the **** out of the Consecration B1. The Temptation is a much better beer. If I had known that'd be on I would've considered going! I still wouldn't have gone, but I would've considered it!

 

[RyanG1]

We were there! drgarage, Ryan_G, grrrah, loeyjarko and I stopped by after a couple beers at Cellarmaker. That '09 Supplication was my fav. Suuuper good.

Good times! Nice warmup at Cellarmaker and then a game time decision to hit up Russian River, not hard to grab a few glasses and the crowd thinned out quickly afterwards.

Really dug the B4 Temptation and B4? Supplication. The Damnation 23 was not drinking well and skipped on anything after a sip. I really dug the B1 Consecration, but waited until the end to enjoy it.

Food trucks rounded out the evening nicely!

 

[loeyjarko]

Good times! Nice warmup at Cellarmaker and then a game time decision to hit up Russian River, not hard to grab a few glasses and the crowd thinned out quickly afterwards.

Really dug the B4 Temptation and B4? Supplication. The Damnation 23 was not drinking well and skipped on anything after a sip. I really dug the B1 Consecration, but waited until the end to enjoy it.

Food trucks rounded out the evening nicely!

Top notch recap. Had a lovely time!

 

[matedog]

So a friend is having a birthday party at Mikkeller this Saturday. Normally I'd be stoked, but they seem to still have a Miikkeller only taplist right now: http://www.mikkellerbar.com/ontap.html

I haven't had much of their stuff and haven't had much interest in it due to it being both cost-prohibitive and not particularly good. Does anyone have any recommendations from the list that are actually worth checking out? I've really only had some of the Spontans (the framboos which is available, I remember as being much better than the others I've tried).

*edit* - it looks like some non-mikkellar stuff is starting to seep back in.

 

[RyanG1]

So a friend is having a birthday party at Mikkeller this Saturday. Normally I'd be stoked, but they seem to still have a Miikkeller only taplist right now: http://www.mikkellerbar.com/ontap.html

I haven't had much of their stuff and haven't had much interest in it due to it being both cost-prohibitive and not particularly good. Does anyone have any recommendations from the list that are actually worth checking out? I've really only had some of the Spontans (the framboos which is available, I remember as being much better than the others I've tried).

*edit* - it looks like some non-mikkellar stuff is starting to seep back in.

You should (hopefully) have more options by this Saturday evening. But if you are forced to only drink Mikkeller, either find a new friend or drink the Brunch Weasel stuff

Also, there is a bottle list of non Mikkeller stuff. Probably expensive.

 

[matedog]

You should (hopefully) have more options by this Saturday evening. But if you are forced to only drink Mikkeller, either find a new friend or drink the Brunch Weasel stuff

Also, there is a bottle list of non Mikkeller stuff. Probably expensive.

Good call on the bottles. I shelled out $40-$45 for a LPF there not too long ago. Which, in retrospect, seems not particularly egregious.

If that falls through and there are no new taps that strike my fancy, I'll give Brunch Weasel a go. That or I'll kick my friend to the curb and go to CBS/Cellarmaker instead.

 

[drgarage1]

Good call on the bottles. I shelled out $40-$45 for a LPF there not too long ago. Which, in retrospect, seems not particularly egregious.

If that falls through and there are no new taps that strike my fancy, I'll give Brunch Weasel a go. That or I'll kick my friend to the curb and go to CBS/Cellarmaker instead.

And I'm sure bourbon vanilla shake is fine, too.

Edit: Which they're sold out of. Regular vanilla shake is good.