City Beer’s Barrel-Aged Beer Fest Rocks
By William Brand
Thursday, August 14th, 2008 at 9:51 pm in General.
It’s getting late. but if you ‘re in the neighborhood of 1168 Folsom in San Francisco, get on over to City Beer. They have five of the barrel-aged beers, brewed by Rodger Davis, while he was at Drake’s in San Leandro.
He’s now head brewer at Triple Rock in Berkeley, while he looks for backers die his own brewpub or brewpub.
City Beer closes at 10 p.m., so hurry.
Can’t make it tonight? City Beer’s barrel-aged beer fest continues through next week. Check the Web site.
About the beer tonight_best beer in my opinion was Drake’s Brett Ambere\***1/2. It’s Drake’s regular ambew\r, aged in merlot wine barrels for two and one-half years with brettanomyces (wild yeast) added to the barrel for a secondary fermentation.
Wild beer. Chocolate color, light skiff of foam. It tastes faintly sweet with a rising brett sourness, but no mouth-puckereing., finishing with a tang of wood and vanilla.
More on the rest later.Just left there and wrote this on my cell phone. Place is jammed. Great venue, great fest.
Photos: Top: Craig Wathen, City Beer Proprietor (with a new haircut) pours beer.
The Rodger Davis Night beer list.
The Drake’s Brett Amber: Delicious, very drinkable. Wish I has some at home.
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August 15th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Damn your killing me. I’m at Drakes every three weeks or so for the last three years to pick up a new keg and I’ve heard about these beers. I wish I could get up to The City to try these. I’m still trying to get Mission Pizza to bring Drakes in such an uphill battle.