Browsing beer.
January’s 2012 Homebrew Dinner hosted by Eating About Beer was another great evening of good food, good brews and good company.
I arrived early to take photos of the set-up. Erin’s place in San Francisco had beautiful natural light and nice floral arrangements.
And a big dictionary.
Dishwashing, viewed through the window into the laundry room.
This sauce was for the Yakitori
There is an equal amount of beer in bottles and in kegs these days
homemade pickled mangoes
and carrots
They have a lever that opens the front door. What are these called? The internet isn’t helping me.
Yakitori and dipping sauce. Chicken hearts and “regular” chicken too.
Cast iron coming out of the oven
Guests await more food and beer
Seitan
“Inside-out stuffed duck” – Ground duck wrapped in dressing with a cherry molasses reduction.
9Sev Brew – Born in Maine Brewed in Cali. This pumpkin spice ale was paired with the inside-out stuffed duck above.
Ginger cake with a poached pear and whipped cream.
The chefs and brewers came out at the end for a toast.
February 18th, 2012
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This summer’s Eating about Beer Summer Homebrew Potluck was hosted at the Humanist Hall this past September. It was a festive event, but I was struck by how simple, peaceful, and colorful scenes were in the venue.
Berry pies
Proceeds went to the Alameda Point Collaborative.
Behind the curtain
Homebrew by Eric
hops in jars
and homebrew in a bucket
there’s a little kitchen at the Humanist hall, which maintained the same bright, solid colors of the rest of the venue.
donation money jar
peephole
October 25th, 2011
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October 14th, 2011
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The 2011 Winter Eating About Beer dinner was held at the Commonwealth Cafe and Public House in Oakland this past Sunday. Here are the photos that I took of the event.
Terrariums in the window. It was a rainy sunday but the lighting in commonwealth was great.
Preparing endives for the first course
Kitchen knives
On the wall
Frying pheasant skin
Those glasses need an anti-reflective coating
Potatoes being cut prior to frying
Crispy pheasant.
Commonwealth’s coffee condiment counter
Discussing pre-dinner activities
The Eating About Beer crew in the kitchen
Awesome flower arrangements.
game face.
Chives
Frying the “belgin-inspired crispy potatoes”
Scallions to later go with cheese and sausage
Commonwealth’s storefront, telegraph side.
The menu
The first guests start checking in
Plating the endives
seated, awaiting the first course
handling the marinated daikon
the plating continues
First course: Endive with roasted pheasant and hazelnuts – paired with a scottish heavy 70 shilling ale
The chefs discuss the first course
toast
Pouring homemade sake
plating of the onigiri
second course: a deconstructed sake bomb with umeboshi onigiri and marinated daikon
Guatemalan longaniza sausages, cooking
describing the second course
more photos to come. If you need more of a fix, check out the last eating about beer dinner.
March 18th, 2011
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Saturday’s bike ride was super soggy, cold, gritty and toe-numbing, but felt strangely rewarding. Here are some photos from the ride.
bikes lined up, pre-ride. lots of blue and white/silver going on. and gold handlebar tape.
the grand cru rolling through santa rosa, en route to sebastopol
joe rodota trail for the win! a pretty sweet, flat, fast trail between santa rosa and sebastopol.
on Sparkes rd, headed away from sebastopol.. things are getting a bit wet! most of the weather forecasts had called for just a cloudy day.. but this day was mostly mist. (toes partially numb at this point.)
our crew split up a bit further. here’s a foggy shot from a climb up burnside rd. (toes mostly numb at this point.)
almost all fog. but pretty. but also chilly.
this photo sums things up pretty well. (toes all numb.)
we took barnett valley down to bodega highway to freestone valley ford rd. then we took the valley ford cutoff to bodega. here’s the church from “the birds”
then we began our ascent of joy rd. I didn’t think it’d be quite so intense. Though, in retrospect, I do remember seeing a lot of wrinkles on the relief of the terrain map. I didn’t remember the altitude profile looking so crazy though. a quick glance at the topo lines shows only 800 feet of climbing?
we took bittner rd down to another small down – occidental – and then descended a chilly and wet graton rd.
I was pretty worn out from the climb and kind of put my head down the rest of the way. luckily, it was mostly flat. rain was spotty but there were patches of blue in the sky.
here’s the reward: taps and tastings at russian river.
photos were taken with the gf1 which survived its soggy stint in my back jersey pocket.
February 2nd, 2011
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