Pacific Brew News

Left to Right: Rich (Ricardo) Norgrove Jr., Glynn Phillips, Rich Norgrove Sr.
This week we celebrated the long-awaited Bear Republic pint night with Rich and Rich Norgrove both in attendance (Jr. coming directly from Yakima Valley for his hops selection of the year). This was the first of what Rubicon’s owner, Glynn Phillips, hopes will be [...]

The votes are counted and people in the Sacramento region have spoken via the Sacramento News and Review. Here are the beer-related results for the area.

Best place for a beer
1. Streets of London Pubvarious locations, www.streetsoflondon.net
2. Rubicon Brewing Company2004 Capitol Avenue, (916) 448-7032, www.rubiconbrewing.com
Best brewpub [...]

You ever been camping with people who really like to cook? My mom is one of these people and when she “camps” she usually brings along an array of cookware used to make wonderful breakfasts and dinners. I know others as well who pride themselves on camp cooking. Nothing, however, compares to what Sean Paxton [...]

This past weekend saw me attending the Northern California Homebrewers Festival, a gathering of homebrewers from across the region all toting along their homebrew and food items to share with each other. I don’t know how many attend this event, but it isn’t a huge attraction for beer enthusiasts.
From left to right: Pete Slosberg, [...]

Sour Beer Night, Come in, Pucker up
It isn’t enough that Sacramento Brewing Company won a medal for its Imperial Stout at last year’s GABF, and it isn’t enough that SBC took a medal home from this year’s World Beer Cup in one of the competition’s deepest styles (Amber Ale). No, since that’s happened Peter Hoey [...]

I don’t know if you saw the July/August issue of DRAFT or not, but it featured Anchor Liberty as the PICK (a beer I considered appropriate for our All-American issue). Well, the only thing better than Anchor’s Liberty is an Anchor Liberty kegged the same day you enjoy it on tap. The folks at San [...]