Looking back again to SF Beer Week 2012
The Celebrator Beer News has published a web-only version of the story we wrote about SF Beer Week 2012. If you participated in San Francisco Beer Week this year, you may have seen us running around with our cameras and notebooks through ten blurry days somewhat obliviously surrounding Valentines Day, filled with great beer, interesting people and lots of learning. Of particular interest to us this time was the exceptional sour beer tasting and blending seminar conducted by Eric and Lauren Salazar from New Belgium Brewery, which we describe in our article. Check it out here:
http://celebrator.com/sfbw/2012/
We’ve enjoyed looking back at and thinking about what makes a memorable Beer Week event, whether in San Francisco or in any of the other fine places where Beer Weeks are springing up. We’ve also included some of our own photos of the week on this page.
-
- SFBW2012 Kickoff
-
- Eric and Lauren Salazar expertly create New Belgium’s blended sours like La Folie. Coming soon will be a wider release of their exotic Sour Lychee.
-
- An amazing sour blending event at La Trappe was put together by Todd Gilman, Mike Azzalini, Eric Salazar and Lauren Salazar
-
- Casks and Queso at the Thirsty Bear
-
- Plating for the Beer Circus dinner extravaganza
-
- City Beer Store hosted Cascade Brewing for special pours and a discussion
-
- Diners at Bar Tartine savor their line-up of beers between soulful New Orleans inspired dishes
-
- Getting Local in the Mission
-
- Clowning around with 12 Percent and Stillwater: Brian Ewing and Brian Strumke
-
- Waterloo importer shows off his Gagaleer beer
-
- Beer, love and peace from the Altimari famiily: Highwater Brewing at the closing night Celebrator party
-
- Loving SF Beer Week. Can beer be romantic? Ask Arne and Betz.
-
- Loving Beer Week: Mary Carten and Ron Gehrke met at the Celebrator a few years ago, and now they are married. We ran into them at an event at City Beer Store.
-
- Beer seekers Mattias Wallén and Johan Wallén flew in from Sweden for SFBW
-
- All over town food and beer events captured imaginations
-
- Trappist dinner menu at Monks Kettle
-
- Pete Slosberg’s chocolate class at 21st Amendment
-
- Two judges, “wicked” Pete Slosberg the chocolate wizard, the winning chocolate contestant, brewer Zambo, and the special cask of the evening
-
- A flight you could just kiss
-
- The joy of getting wrist-banded at Triple Rock
SFBW was phenomenal again. Do you have any wishes for next year’s beer week? There’s plenty of time to make something happen by dreaming big and letting our community know about it. What do you think you’d like to see in 2013? We may as well make our desires known.
Explore posts in the same categories: Beer, beer festivals, events, San Francisco, Sour beerExplore Beer By BART; use our list of some of the San Francisco Bay Area’s best beer places with detailed transit info, so you can get out there to enjoy without driving.
Tags: celebrator, festivals, New Belgium, San Francisco, SF Beer Week, SFBW12, sour beer
You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site.
April 18, 2012 at 8:10 am
[...] Beer by BART: Looking back again to SF Beer Week 2012 [...]