San Francisco Beer Week

03/19/2026

🍻 100 Beer People Spoke. We Listened.

After 2026 SF Beer Week, we asked for your feedback — and about 100 of you took the time to share thoughtful, detailed responses.

The headline? The experience was overwhelmingly positive. But just as important, you told us where we can improve — and we’re taking that seriously.

In this week’s Brew Deck, we break down:
• What you loved
• What you want more of
• What we’re actively working to improve for 2027

Beer Week works best when it feels like a shared civic project for Bay Area beer — and that only happens when Beer People show up and speak up.

👉 Read the full breakdown:
https://brewdeck.ghost.io/100-beer-people-spoke-we-listened/

Thanks for helping us build this together. 🍺

Two weeks ago, we shared a survey through this newsletter and our Guild social media accounts. We were very pleased with the response: about 100 of you took the time to provide feedback, and most of your answers were thoughtful and detailed. Overall, your feedback was overwhelmingly positive. • 84...

03/03/2026

Hey Beer Friends,

We’ve put together a short survey to learn what you loved, what surprised you, and how we can make Beer Week even better in 2027.

Follow the link in bio to share your feedback!

*These pretty photos were all taken by

02/24/2026

What a weekend 🍻

Huge THANK YOU to everyone who came out and celebrated with us at the festival, the energy, the community, and the love for craft beer is what makes this week so special every year.

Special thanks to for hosting and to all the incredible breweries who participated and made the event unforgettable. We’re grateful to be part of such a strong and passionate beer community.

We hope everyone enjoys the rest of San Francisco Beer Week, there are still plenty of amazing events ahead 🍺

Cheers!

02/19/2026

✨🍺 North Bay IPA Collab — Bright Future 🍺✨

The future is looking bright! We had an incredible time up in the North Bay brewing Bright Future as part of North Bay IPA 2025 at This collaboration brings together creativity, community, and a shared love for hop-forward beerand we’re excited to reveal the label alongside some behind-the-scenes moments from brew day.

Projects like this are what San Francisco Beer Week is all about: breweries coming together, pushing ideas forward, and celebrating the craft that connects us all.

Stay tuned for release details, the future is bright, and it tastes delicious. ☀️🍻

02/18/2026

Introducing Beer 39!

Beer Week begins in just 2 days! And, this year Drink Bay Beer is bringing independent, brewery-fresh beer to one of San Francisco’s most iconic destinations: Pier 39.

Eight local breweries will be pouring at eight Pier locations from February 20 through March 1, and it is all connected by one Beer Passport.

Stop in, order a beer, get stamped, and move to the next spot. Taste four and earn an official SF Beer Week tasting glass.

For visitors, it’s an easy introduction to Bay Area craft beer.
For locals, it’s a reason to rediscover the waterfront.
For breweries, it’s a chance to reach new audiences.

That’s Beer Week at its best!

Join us for Beer 39 and experience local beer in a whole new way.

One of the great joys of Beer Week is watching beer from small, independent breweries show up in places you’d never expect. For one incredible week each year, we expand our orbit and get reminded that great beer belongs everywhere. A Michelin-starred dining room. A one-of-a-kind neighborhood pinba...

02/14/2026

Label Reveal 👀🍺

East Bay collab #2 is here.

Brewed at , this one’s called Topper, our IPA2015 collab and a nod to the legendary Heady Topper from The Alchemist.

Bold hops. West Coast attitude. East Bay ex*****on.

We had to pay homage to one of the beers that helped shape modern hop culture, and we’re stoked to finally reveal the label.

More details coming soon.
SF Beer Week is almost here. 🍻

02/10/2026

Huge congrats to our friends at for taking 🥉 Third Place at the .hayward DIPA Festival! 🍻🔥
Killer beers, well deserved recognition.

You can find Morgan Territory, and tons of other amazing breweries, pouring at the SF Beer Week Festival!

🎟️ Tickets are on sale now, grab yours and drink the best of the Bay all in one place.
Link in bio.

02/10/2026

🍻 SF Beer Week 2026 event listings are live

With just 10 days to go, the first 120+ SF Beer Week events are now available to explore at
👉 sfbeerweek.org/activities

Beer Week 2026 begins in just 10 days, and the countdown to the best 10 days of the year is officially underway. Beer Week works because, for one concentrated stretch of time, the Bay Area’s beer community moves together. Breweries, bars, retailers, and most importantly, beer drinkers align their

02/08/2026

LABEL REVEAL!!

IPA 20005 "One Hour IPA" hosted by Brix Factory Brewing

Late last month, the Drink Bay Beer East Bay Chapter gathered at Brix Factory in Oakland with our friends from Country Malt Group and Lallemand to brew IPA 2005 - a beer conceived as a "cover version" of Dogfish Head Brewing's 60 Minute IPA from that era.

As luck would have it, Brix Factory founder, John Gillooly, was brewing at Dogfish Head back then. Here is what he had to say about the project:

"I started at Dogfish Head in 2002, and inherited a really fun portfolio of beers. The one getting the most attention at the time was 90 Minute IPA, a 9% ABV monster packaged in corked 750ml bottles. 60 Minute was definitely a little brother, but it was a neat beer in a style that was nowhere near as dominant as it is today.

When I started at Dogfish, hops were purchased on the spot market and were inconsistent due to supply constraints. I negotiated contracts for the next harvest, so starting late 2002-early 2003, the IPAs were made with a combination of Simcoe and Amarillo, which at the time were very new hops on the market and a real advance from the C-hop-dominated 90's.

An interesting feature of the Dogfish IPAs is that they were brewed with 100% base malt (90s-era IPAs typically featured at least some crystal malt). The base malt I used when I started was Crisp Pale Ale, which I think is an excellent malt, but I didn't think it was appropriate across the whole portfolio (it certainly didn't make sense in Raison D'Etre), so I switched to Great Western 2-row. 3 months into the switch, Great Western came to me to warn that the upcoming crop year was s**t - prices were going up a bunch and protein levels were going to be difficult. After evaluating all my options, I secured a bulk supply of French Pilsner malt as our base.

Simcoe, Amarillo, French Pilsner malt - and an English Ale yeast - that's what I left Dogfish in 2004, and that's the beer I'll be reprising for IPA 2005."

Shout out to the sponsors who helped make it happen
Country Malt Group
Lallemand Brewing
Core Cans
Custom Label Co

02/08/2026

02/04/2026

🍻 New post up on The Brew Deck!
Building a Beer Mecca, Week After Week

What does it take to build a beer community that lasts? In this issue, we spotlight Sonoma County — where everyday champions, institutions, and beer lovers have helped nurture a deeply rooted beer culture.

This is more than a beer scene — it’s a model for how communities can grow, collaborate, and support small businesses that matter.

👉 Read it here: https://brewdeck.ghost.io/building-a-beer-mecca-week-after-week/

Let’s talk about how we can bring these lessons home, all over the Bay Area!

Sonoma County Models a Community-Grounded, Self-Renewing Beer Economy With FeBREWary underway and Beer Week on the horizon, Sonoma County’s beer advocates are once again showing us how thriving beer communities are built: slowly, deliberately, and together. In 2020, a national database ranked beer...