BiteClub Eats

Brewhouse chain opens a massive 250-seat restaurant in Santa Rosa’s Coddingtown Mall

Feb. 10-19

More than home brewers, less than craft brewers: A new breed of artisan beer-makers emerges

Beer hall in the works in downtown SR

Russian River Brewing’s Double IPA Beer of the Year

Where are the best places to get a beer/drink in the sunshine? For such an outdoorsy place, most places are so indoors and gloomy.

Russian River Brewing has ‘em lined up for blocks

Every once in a while, I’m lucky enough to find a combination of flavors that just works, a minor chord born of a Beatles-like marriage of flats and sharps. Many of the classics never tire, and I use and re-use them without apology – and then there are beer snacks, the holy grail of sports fans and wannabe man-cooks everywhere, the perfect balance of heat, salt, and icy bitter froth, a marriage to read about in the self-therapy section of an airport book nook.

Anthony Bourdain once wrote – I believe I’m paraphrasing Kitchen Confidential, but I can’t find the citation – that anyone who cooks with pre-minced garlic should be sentenced never to taste fresh garlic again, and I have to agree: I adore garlic, but the stuff in the jar is just plain nasty and, unfortunately, it is all over the inexplicably famous Garlic Fries at AT&T Park.

Das Boot! Das Boot! Get your oompa-attitude in check this Rocktober