Santa Cruz pours during Beer Week
PUBLISHED: February 4, 2009 at 12:00 am | UPDATED: September 11, 2018 at 12:00 am
Breweries across the San Francisco Bay Area, including Santa Cruz, will be pouring during San Francisco Beer Week Feb. 6-15. The following are only the Santa Cruz events. There are many, many others in San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley and San Jose.
Check out sfbeerweek.org for a full calendar.
At 6 p.m. Friday, Red Restaurant and Bar will host a multi-course dinner featuring pairings with beers from Uncommon Brewers of Santa Cruz. Head Brewer Alec Stefansky will be attending to talk about the challenges of making organic microbrews, and bringing some tastes of previously unreleased beers. Dinner is $65 per person.
Uncommon Brewers is a community-oriented organic microbrewery. Incorporating traditional Belgian brewing techniques, cutting-edge innovation from the modern West Coast, and grounded in the principles of sustainability voiced by the Slow Food Movement, the company"s goal is to produce uncommon beers for uncommon people.
Dinner by Chef Tod Wiliamson features Gulf shrimp with a salsa verde cruda and Tobasco-butter sauce paired with Golden State Ale. Second: Braised pork belly in Cola, star anise and tamarind with coriander apple chutney paired with Siamese Twin Ale. Main: Short ribs in Baltic Porter and apple juice with parsnip puree and a gratin of endive and prosciutto paired with Baltic Porter. Afters: Pickled red flame grapes under shaved chocolate with blood orange syrup paired with the unreleased Sinister Twin Ale. Call 621-6270 for details.
From noon-6 p.m. Saturday, a beer and cheese pairing takes place at Parish Publick House with Santa Cruz Ale Works, featuring various styles of beer. The Parish Publick House is a new multi-tap beer destination that has a domestic and imported beer selection as well as pub food. Beer and cheese priced separately. Call 421-0507 for details.
Also from noon-6 p.m. Saturday, Seabright Brewery will host a chocolate tasting. Find out what beer matches with well-made chocolates by Marini"s. The brewery is also holding a home brew contest, with the winning beer brewed on its system and served at the event.
Learn how to make your own beer at two demonstrations from noon-3 p.m. Sunday at Seven Bridges Cooperative, 325-A River St., Santa Cruz. Free samples of organic home brew made from organic beer kits will be served.
At noon an all-grain, hands-on, brewing demonstration, expected to last five to six hours, will brew 10 gallons using a three-stage brewing system. The process is very similar to how most breweries produce beer, but on a much smaller scale. Participants are welcome to attend the entire session or stop by for a quick visit.
At 3 p.m. the cooperative will start a beginners homebrew batch. This workshop is geared towards people who plan to start brewing their own beer at home and would like to have some hands-on training from experienced home brewers. A $10 donation for the workshop is requested but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Both workshops will be in an outdoor unheated setting. If it rains a canopy will be in place but it may limit the number of people the workshop can accommodate. Call 454-9665.
From 1-6 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 15, India Joze Catering and Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing, 402 Ingalls St., Suite 27, Santa Cruz, team to create a global culinary beer journey that incorporates beer into recipes from around the world, while you sip on beers from the brewery as well as ancient barley elixirs made specially for the event. Jozseph Schultz of India Joze will be entertaining and educating while preparing dishes to delight your belly.
Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing is a certified organic microbrewery owned by Chad Brill and Emily Thomas, where you can sample six of their ales on tap, as well as a multitude of seasonals.
Admission of $20 includes eight six-ounce tasters, meal and demonstration. Call 425-4900 for details.