Podcast- 01.May
- Love Beer
- John reports on going to the Craft Brewers Festival held in San Diego. The CBC is held in different places around the country once a year. Brewers from all of the world attend. During the week there are talks about beer, sessions about beer, judging beer and of course drinking beer. As there are lots [...]
- 06.Apr
- 75 years of Beer
- show notes go here.
- 31.Mar
- Hop Crisis
- A “perfect storm” has caused the price of hops to sky rocket. Many things factor into to making this happen: bad crop yields, increased consumption in other countries, and hop farms going away. It doesn’t help that just a few years ago hop prices were so low that there wasn’t incentive to keep growing them [...]
Monolog
- 30.Oct
- Prohibition 2.0?
- Read this article called Prohibition Returns! Teetotaling do-gooders attack your right to drink… Amazing that people think they have the right to imprint their views on me. See, I happen to be an adult. I choose what I eat and drink, the people that I hang out with, what music is playing and when it’s time [...]
- 23.Oct
- Contact
- Us here… email: info@beerschool.com send letters, coasters, beer and t-shirts to: Beer School / John Foster 401 Terry Francois Ste 212 San Francisco, CA 94158 drunk dialing the Beer School office is always funny: 206 - 666 - 5338 physical location: you will find us at the craft breweries and bars all around San Francisco / Bay Area. Such as the 21st Amendment, Magnolia, Toronado, [...]
- 23.Oct
- Podcast
- To subscribe to the podcast simple copy the URL to iTunes or your favorite RSS reader. You can also listen to any show right here on the BeerSchool.com site by clicking on a episode then clicking the listen button. http://beerschool.com/rss.xml
News
- 28.Feb
- Microbrewery segment grew 21% in 2007
- While it looks like a big win, there is actually some bad news here. That is brewpubs and micros closing for whatever reason. Comparing 2007 with 2006 there were 12 less brewpub and micro breweries closures which is 40 versus 52. Added up that means that 90 places closed in the last two years. On [...]
- 18.Feb
- Sam Adams helps the Hop Crisis
- The Hop Crisis! Gads. Whatayamean no IPA?!? Huh… These guys are kidding right? Nope. They aren’t. It’s a full on problem caused in part by other countries buying hops of any kind to brew “canoe beer” for their masses. This leaves craft brewers that didn’t have a contract for the hops they used in an [...]
- 27.Nov
- 1,934 People Learn About Homebrewing
- From that AHA… November 3, 2007 was the American Homebrewers Association’s (AHA) Teach a Friend to Homebrew Day; on this day more than 1,900 participants brewed 1,970 gallons of beer at 152 sites worldwide. Over 550 new homebrewers learned to brew this year on Teach A Friend to Homebrew Day. The AHA celebrates brewing and encourages [...]
Fun
- 20.Apr
- Boonville
- Twelfth Annual Legendary Boonville Beer Festival Date: May 10, 2008 Times: Taps open from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Music until 6:00 p.m. Place: Mendocino County Fairgrounds 14400 Hwy 128; Boonville, CA get tickets online and save.
- 16.Mar
- Hop Rhizome Festival
- The beginning of the year means the arrival of hop rhizomes. These are the beginning roots of a hop plant which grows as a vine up to 25 feet during the season. A rhizome is genetically identical to the plant it came from. At the end of the season the plant will die but the [...]
- 16.Mar
- Bay Area’s 5th Annual Firkin Gravity Festival
- Bay Area’s 5th Annual Firkin Gravity Festival begins Saturday, April 5th, 2008 at 11am, and is presented by Triple Rock Brewery & Alehouse in Berkeley, CA. Admission price is $20.00 which includes a logo glass and 5 tasting tickets; plus a wooden token for a full pour. There will be additional tasting tickets for a nominal [...]
Trips
- 09.Nov
- Barrel Aged Beer Fest
- Is this Saturday November 10th at the Bistro in downtown Hayward. Take BART. See you there. Link
- 01.Oct
- Join us on the Beer Bus!
- The 21st Amendment is sponsoring a Beer Bus to the south bay breweries that we normally never get to. The cost for the entire trip is $120 which includes beer, food, and the bus for the entire day. Once you get on the bus you won’t have any other expenses. That is unless you buy [...]
- 23.Sep
- Beer School at GABF
- The Beer School crew is attending the Great American Beer Festival. We’re there for the whole thing so if you want to find for pictures, autographs or chatting about beer there’s plenty of time to find us. Watch this article for all the details of how, when and where to find Motor and John plus [...]
Photos
- 03.Jan
- Cheers…
- 17.Sep
- John on the JO
- This would have been two years ago. Photo by Gabby.
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