If you’re a craft beer lover, these February specials will blow your mind.
California Craft Beer Week is selling out fast, so be sure to take advantage of these specials from February 12th – 21st! These local breweries have hundreds of innovative pilsners, IPAs, sours, ciders, stouts, lagers, and much more. Be sure to support them during CA Craft Beer Week and beyond!
1. Woods
Locations: various
Woods Beer & Wine Co. is a small brewing company with a large Bay Area presence. They have locations in the Mission district, Russian Hill, Uptown Oakland, Treasure Island, Outer Sunset, and Lower Haight. CA Craft Beer Week events and specials include:
- 2/12 – Cheers to San Francisco Set
- 2/13 – Cheers to Polk Street with Bob’s Apple Fritters at Woods Polk
- 2/14 – Cheers to the Haight with Turkey and Sharkey event at Woods Lower Haight
- 2/16 – Zoom-Friendly SFW Valentine Set
- 2/17 – Hovercraft Hefeweisen + recipe
- 2/18 – Beer Week Lover Set
- 2/18 – Celebration of Craft: Virtual Tasting Experience
- 2/18 – Mezcal Local Honey + recipe
- 2/19 – Pugasus Porter + recipe
2. Old Devil Moon
Location: 3472 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110
[Image by @jasonperryphoto]
Old Devil Moon is a lively tap room in Bernal Heights with over 20 different rotating taps, curated by Advanced and Certified Cicerone servers. Their Sour Sh!tstorm 2021 special will be available for pickup on February 10th, but orders are already being placed! Enjoy 5 different sour options plus an optional Zoom Tasting event on February 13th at 7pm, hosted by the ODM Advanced Cicerones and partner Chris Cohen.
3. Barebottle
Location: 1525 Cortland Ave. San Francisco, CA 94110
Barebottle creates SF-inspired beers with local ingredients in collaboration with local homebrewing groups. Their CCBW Tasting Tour is sold out, but be sure to reserve a spot for their Doom Bloom TIPA Valentine’s Day Draft and Bottle Release, happening February 14th at 2pm at Tiger’s Taproom in Oakland.
4. San Francisco Brewing Company
Location: 3150 Polk St, San Francisco, CA 94109
SF Brewing has a lively beer garden in Ghirardelli Square with handcrafted innovative beers as well as great food options and games. They have 1 event and 1 special for CA Craft Beer Week:
- 2/9-13 – Home Brew Competition
- 2/21 – Limited Release Barrel Aged Series
5. Bay Area Brewers Guild
Location: Bay Area breweries
This non-profit trade association promotes 150+ independent breweries around the Bay Area. 3 of their 4 Bay Area tasting ‘tours’ (or rather, boxes containing 8 local craft brews) are sold out, but you can still reserve the Inland Empire Brewers Box, which will be available February 9th.
6. Pine Street Brewery
Location: 1270 Pine Street #1, San Francisco, CA 94109
This community-focused brewery has created high quality ales in the Bay Area since 2009. They’re now offering a Pine Street Favs Mix Box for home delivery that includes the Pine Street IPA, Sucker Free City Kolsch, No Rest for the Rad raspberry kettle sour, Black Bay Milk Stout, The Tides of Kokomo Hazy IPA and more.
7. Local Brewing Company
Location: 69 Bluxome St, San Francisco, CA 94107
Local Brewing Company aims to create “approachable beers with character” using high quality local ingredients. They’re releasing the Fog Mode DDH Hazy Double IPA, a collaboration with SF rapper Dregs One. Dregs One will perform his single “Fog Mode” at the brewery on February 13th to a limited audience, with a livestreamed broadcast.
[Featured Image: Instagram / @barebottle]