Events.  The holiday/Christmas season is really cranking up. Here’s just a handful of upcoming things this week:

Jug Shop, 1590 Pacific Ave., San Francisco, CA 94109, (415) 885-2922  is holding two Christmas beer tastings this Friday and Saturday. This is a high end wine shop that also stocks some great beer:

• The first tasting on Friday will feature imports from Belgium, Austria and Germany. We’ll have 10 of these open, including brews from Brasserie Dupont, Scaldis, Gouden Carolus, Delirium, St. Bernardus, De Glazen Toren, Samiclaus and Pinkus. Then on Saturday, we’ll showcase 14 winter beers from domestic craft brew stars such as He’Brew, Moylans, Marin Brewing Company, Shipyard, Avery, Deschutes, New Belgium, Anchor and Wandering Aengus. Tasting fee for each event is $15 per person. Helmets are optional.
• Jingle Beer Part I - The Imports, Friday, December 5th, 6pm to 8pm $15 per person
• Jingle Beer Part II - The Domestics, Saturday, December 6th, 5pm to 7pm $15 per person

Celebrate Prohibition Repeal Friday, Dec. 5, at Triple Rock Brewery, 1920 Shatuck Ave., Berkeley. Jesse Sarinana, Triple Rock’s GM, sent this note:

• We tap our Pre-Prohibition Mild Ale that we brewed to commemorate the repeal of the 18th amendment. It finished out at 4.6% a.b.v. and is aptly named RepeALE.  We are going to be throwing a theme party here at Triple Rock on Friday, 12/5 and will be turning the back part of the bar into a sealed off speakeasy complete with a password that will be given out on our website and at the bar the day of the party…

Here in the Bay Area we no longer have a corner on the good beer world. Consider the beer list at the Barrel-Aged Beer Festival at Brouwer’s Cafe in Seattle today.  Thanks to Alan Moum for the list.
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• Allagash Curieux Jim Beam Barrel aged Tripel, ,Avery Vogelbekdieren,, Bamburger Doppelbock in a Wood Furkin tapped   @ 6pm,  Baron Bourbon barrel Aged Doppelbock,  Beersel Oude 3yr Lambic,, Big Sky Ivan The Terrible Jim Beam Barrel Aged Imperial Stout, , Big Sky Bourbon aged MDX, ,Big Time Dance Floor, ,Boundary Bay Wood aged Cabin Fever,, Bridgeport Ravenmad Imperial Porter.
• Cantillon Vigneron, Cantillon Lou Pepe Framboise ‘03, ,Cascade Moutan Rouge, Deschuttes Abyss 07, Deschuttes Abyss 08,  Deschuttes Black Butte xx, , Dicks Wood aged IPA CASK,  Dogfish Head Palo Santo, Duchesse De Bourgogne Flanders Sour Red, Echt Krieken Bier,  Elysian Bitch in a Barrel,  Flyers Oak Aged Bottleworks VIII Imperial Scotch Ale,  Full Sail Imperial Bourbon Porter, , Hair of the Dog Fred from the Wood,

• Hair of the Dog Jim (Fred, Adam, and Doggie Claws, with German Pilsner and Belgian Triple), Hale’s something? (probably brandy barrel wee heavy), ,Ichtegrams Flemish Red, Iron Horse Oaked Belgian Black Ale,  Laughing Dog Dog Father, Lost Abbey Angel’s Share 2007,  Maritime Rum Aged Jolly,  Monks Café Sour Brown,  New Belgium Erics Ale Sour Peach,  Northern Lights Jack Daniels…, Pike Entire,  Port Townsend Nitro French Oak Makers Mark Porter,  Port Townsend Nitro American Oak Scotch ale,  Ram Nitro Bourbon Vanilla Porter,

• Rodenbach Grand Cru Belgian Sour Ale,  Rogue Issaquah Oak Aged Quad Frog, Russian River Deviation,  Schooner Exact Hoppy Woodsman, Sierra Nevada Oak Aged Scotch Ale,  Skagit Oak Aged Trumpeter Imperial Stout,  Stone Oak Aged Bastard,  Stone Brandy Barrel Aged Double Bastard,  and several Special Surprises