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After two years and visits to nearly 100 breweries, here are my favorites.

After two years and visits to nearly 100 breweries, here are my favorites.

From award-winning barleywine to kimchi sour beer, beer columnist Jay Brooks highlights unique Oakland beer offerings.

From award-winning barleywine to kimchi sour beer, beer columnist Jay Brooks highlights unique Oakland beer offerings.

Bonus to the brews: the place feels much more like a good old, divey, neighborhood bar than a restaurant plus mighty fine food to boot. 

Craft beer has been booming in the Bay Area for over a decade, and many breweries are turning out excellent, incredibly interesting beer. SFist brings you the best of what we think SF, Oakland, and Berkeley have to offer, beer-wise.

The San Francisco craft beer stars behind Cellarmaker Brewing Co., who three years ago surprised us with a shockingly good pizzeria to go with their always good and often hoppy beers, are now expanding to Oakland.

Top local picks for San Francisco Beer Week Beer Week looks different this year – but still brings new releases of special local brews. With the pandemic disrupting San Francisco Beer Week this year, the Bay Area Brewers Guild teamed up with six other regional guilds throughout the state to organize California Craft Beer Week from February 12-21. While large gatherings and festivals won’t be happening this year, breweries are still hosting plentiful virtual tastings and other events ov...