Bay Area Thread

[theconductor]

Not related to the brewery. Would take a not so wild stab that it's short for Graventstein Hwy South (116).

And/or the apple for which that highway is named.

 

[AptosBeerDrinker]

DO YOU EVEN GRAV BRO?

 

[coldstorage]

 

[sherm10161]

I'll be out in SF for work at the end of the month, with one day of PTO mixed in. Was going to use that Beer by BART website to try to plan my day off. It looks like it's relatively current, but can anyone confirm if there's anything big errors, omissions, closings, etc. on there?

 

[RyanG1]

I'll be out in SF for work at the end of the month, with one day of PTO mixed in. Was going to use that Beer by BART website to try to plan my day off. It looks like it's relatively current, but can anyone confirm if there's anything big errors, omissions, closings, etc. on there?

Not sure what spot(s) you are looking to hit on your one day off, but with a day off I would hit Toronado - City Beer Store - Cellarmaker - Fieldwork - Sierra Nevada Tap Room. Can get to each one of these places by Muni (bus)/lyft or uber and then BART over to the East Bay. City Beer Store is a short walk to or from Cellarmaker.

 

[CharlieMurphy1]

Seems to be a good chunk of new east bay breweries/I'm out of the loop. Any of these worth hitting up today?

Alameda Island
Linden St
Temescal
Woods
Diving Dog
Hoi Polloi

Any have good food service/bring your own?

Plan on hitting Cleophus Quealy, Drake's barrel house (I like weird stuff), and maybe Faction. Seeing a show at the Fox. Not doing Berkeley this time, but I'm a fan of Fieldwork.

 

[RyanG1]

Seems to be a good chunk of new east bay breweries/I'm out of the loop. Any of these are worth hitting up today?

Alameda Island
Linden St
Temescal
Woods
Diving Dog
Hoi Polloi

Any have good food service/bring your own?

Plan on hitting Cleophus Quealy, Drake's barrel house (I like weird stuff), and maybe Faction. Seeing a show at the Fox. Not doing Berkeley this time, but I'm a fan of Fieldwork.

Temescal has been getting some overall positive reviews, but limit myself to Faction for the beers and view and Berkeley spots.

tosh or matedog might have better suggestions

 

[sherm10161]

Not sure what spot(s) you are looking to hit on your one day off, but with a day off I would hit Toronado - City Beer Store - Cellarmaker - Fieldwork - Sierra Nevada Tap Room. Can get to each one of these places by Muni (bus)/lyft or uber and then BART over to the East Bay. City Beer Store is a short walk to or from Cellarmaker.

Thanks for the recommendations. City Beer Store and Toronado were definitely on the list.

 

[CommanderofAwesome]

Seems to be a good chunk of new east bay breweries/I'm out of the loop. Any of these worth hitting up today?

Alameda Island - Haven't been
Linden St - Nope
Temescal - Nope
Woods - Nope (but is close to Diving Dog & Beer Rev/Trappist)
Diving Dog - Nope (but is close to Woods & Beer Rev/Trappist)
Hoi Polloi - Nope

Any have good food service/bring your own?

Plan on hitting Cleophus Quealy, Drake's barrel house (I like weird stuff), and maybe Faction. Seeing a show at the Fox. Not doing Berkeley this time, but I'm a fan of Fieldwork.

Added my notes in bold.

 

[tosh1]

Seems to be a good chunk of new east bay breweries/I'm out of the loop. Any of these worth hitting up today?

Alameda Island
Linden St
Temescal
Woods
Diving Dog
Hoi Polloi

Any have good food service/bring your own?

Plan on hitting Cleophus Quealy, Drake's barrel house (I like weird stuff), and maybe Faction. Seeing a show at the Fox. Not doing Berkeley this time, but I'm a fan of Fieldwork.

Temescal is only one i would hit. Linden is a cool space, but Meh. Alameda Island is awful.

 

[tosh1]

Seems to be a good chunk of new east bay breweries/I'm out of the loop. Any of these worth hitting up today?

Alameda Island
Linden St
Temescal
Woods
Diving Dog
Hoi Polloi

Any have good food service/bring your own?

Plan on hitting Cleophus Quealy, Drake's barrel house (I like weird stuff), and maybe Faction. Seeing a show at the Fox. Not doing Berkeley this time, but I'm a fan of Fieldwork.

Stay at Drakes, CQ has stalled beerwise In my opinion.

 

[AndresR]

Fyi, Linden is closin/moving soon. Plus, meh.

 

[CharlieMurphy1]

Stay at Drakes, CQ has stalled beerwise In my opinion.

Never been. They seem more interesting than most.

 

[matedog]

Fyi, Linden is closin/moving soon. Plus, meh.

The place next to it is cool and has good food. I went there once and they randomly had Cantillon gueuze. But yeah, skip Linden St unless you are really into like black lagers or something.

I do enjoy the Fieldwork-Sierra-Rare Barrel crawl, myself.

Going to Temescal tonight. I'm hoping that double IPA is tasty.

 

[hideout]

i liked diving dog enough. i didn't try any of the house beers but they keep an updated beermenus so you can determine if it's worth a stop beforehand, though you'll be right by it if you're going to the fox.

 

[beerandraiderfan]

Going to some Giants games this weekend. Gonna be walking around the park/wharf area. Last time drank SNPA & Baby Daddy, can't remember where exactly. . .

Anyways, anyone got any recommendations? Doesn't have to be neckbeard stuff (although dats cool too), just a cool place to grab a pale ale & wings type of **** you might like.

 

[RyanG1]

Going to some Giants games this weekend. Gonna be walking around the park/wharf area. Last time drank SNPA & Baby Daddy, can't remember where exactly. . .

Anyways, anyone got any recommendations? Doesn't have to be neckbeard stuff (although dats cool too), just a cool place to grab a pale ale & wings type of **** you might like.

Classic spot.

Good burger, Lagunitas, and fries. Sit on the back deck.

Or check out Little Skillet (fried chicken and waffles) or Woodbury (wings more gastrobropubish).

 

[matedog]

Going to some Giants games this weekend. Gonna be walking around the park/wharf area. Last time drank SNPA & Baby Daddy, can't remember where exactly. . .

Anyways, anyone got any recommendations? Doesn't have to be neckbeard stuff (although dats cool too), just a cool place to grab a pale ale & wings type of **** you might like.

Public House for neckbeard stuff. If you've never been, it has direct access to the park, so you can bring your Blind Pig or whatever into the game.

 

[AndresR]

Going to some Giants games this weekend. Gonna be walking around the park/wharf area. Last time drank SNPA & Baby Daddy, can't remember where exactly. . .

Anyways, anyone got any recommendations? Doesn't have to be neckbeard stuff (although dats cool too), just a cool place to grab a pale ale & wings type of **** you might like.

Garaje on 3rd. Great tap list n grub!

 

[chemman141]

Public House for neckbeard stuff. If you've never been, it has direct access to the park, so you can bring your Blind Pig or whatever into the game.

And the beer is ~30% cheaper than in the stadium.

 

[grrrah]

And the beer is ~30% cheaper than in the stadium.

And you can go back/forth in the 2nd inning when your beer runs out. Just be back in before the start of the 7th otherwise you are stuck drinking better beer and watching the game on TV.

 

[RyanG1]

Speaking of baseball. Have two bleacher seats to Sunday's game versus the Cardinals. Section 139, row 10. Free to a good home.

 

[CharlieMurphy1]

Stay at Drakes, CQ has stalled beerwise In my opinion.

I was actually really impressed with CQ

 

[hideout]

fou foune is on tap at ol in walnut creek, $13/20cl pour.

 

[coldstorage]

Speaking of baseball. Have two bleacher seats to Sunday's game versus the Cardinals. Section 139, row 10. Free to a good home.

Can't stand to watch, eh? Me either. Bums....

 

[chemman141]

Can't stand to watch, eh? Me either. Bums....

****
That's about all I can say about that

 

[RyanG1]

fou foune is on tap at ol in walnut creek, $13/20cl pour.

Order me some drafts, bathroom growler fill plz

 

[pen15clubmember]

Order me some drafts, bathroom growler fill plz

mmhmm

 

[Wino1]

anyone heard of / seen any A&G landing out here?

 

[tosh1]

anyone heard of / seen any A&G landing out here?

Mikkeller in Oakland had some, I don't believe it lasted very long.