San Fran Beer Tour

[Dubba_Brew]

great stuff,
Has anyone been to the Rogue pub? Is it worth the trip? I'm a New Yorker, and would love to try more than the typical rogue bottles we get here.

If you plan on making that trek... it's a long, LONG drive (Newport, OR). I should know, I made that exact drive this past summer (SF to Newport). I don't know if Rogue, by itself, is worth that kind of a drive... but if you start looking along the 101 and RT1 to see what other breweries are there, you may want to drive it. Along the way up there you could hit North Coast in Fort Bragg - I would recommend hitting Eel River in Fortuna, CA. That place is a diamond in the rough. The beer is really tasty (all organic) and the food is killer (again, all organic). Now, if you want some Rogue that you can't get back east, you will find it there. If they have the Charlie on tap, get it!! I was told that it was John Maier's tribute to Charlie Papazian. That was a GREAT beer.

Taps at Rogue (brewers on the bay):

[Mylo]

It's San Francisco, not San Fran. OK?

-Motor

Well, at least he didn't call it "Frisco"... That one particulary bugs you Bay Area dudes...

Mylo

[Motor]

Frisco is better than "San Fran". Frisco is what sailors called San Francisco, so it has a historic context. "San Fran" makes my skin crawl.

As for Rogue, there's a Rogue pub here in San Francisco, specifically in North Beach, so one doesn't have to go all the way to Newport to sample all Rogue's beer.

Prost!

-Motor

It's San Francisco, not San Fran. OK?

-Motor

Well, at least he didn't call it "Frisco"... That one particulary bugs you Bay Area dudes...

Mylo

[Brew Engineer]

Finally, to blow my own horn:

http://www.beerschool.com/45/touring-sa ... isco-beer/

-Motor

Sorry Motor- I should have said Foster and Motor and crew did a great job...

Or shoudl I have said "Motor and Foster" did a great job?

[erk]

Yeah,
Sorry about the San Fran Motor. Like i said, its my first time in California.
Your Brew school podcast was excellent. I'm luckily going to be there with my craft beer loving girlfriend, so any pub/brewery/bar is pretty much game. I'll most likely drive north to at least bear republic and hit lagunitas and russian river on the way back. Using BART to bar hop seems like the best idea in the city, especially when faced with imbibing and driving in an unfamiliar town. Does anyone have a top 8 beer locations in the bay area?

[Geistbier]

also if you do a search of the forums this topic has been tackled about 3-4times.

[Dmac08]

Here is what you do. Get in your car and drive North on hwy 101 until you get to Santa Rosa. Find Russian River Brewery and park you car as close as possible to the front door. Go inside and drink until you are about to drop. Walk out to your car and sleep until they open again the next day and repeat.

[Dirk McLargeHuge]

Here is what you do. Get in your car and drive North on hwy 101 until you get to Santa Rosa. Find Russian River Brewery and park you car as close as possible to the front door. Go inside and drink until you are about to drop. Walk out to your car and sleep until they open again the next day and repeat.

Now here's someone who's been thinking!