Marin Mt. Tam Pale Ale

8 beers on tap here, Including 21A back in black and Drake's blonde. Went with the Pale because I was having French toast with strawberry preserves. What beers go well with sticky?


They also have Aventinus in bottles. Tempting, but I do need to be able to make it home.

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Hofbräuhaus Las Vegas

No bachelor party in Las Vegas is complete without a fresh litre of beer.



And Obazter.

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Kalifornia Kölsch: Magnolia Pub

I hated the Magnolia remodel, not because it removed the hippie ambience, but because it changed the crowd from beer drinkers to Mission hipsters. The food was always variable at Magnolia, but they had some amazing beers on tap. We served Spud Boy IPA at our wedding, and the Kölsch and Ashbury Alts are favorites.

But the beer list isn't as good as it used to be. They serve a new and relatively lame Bittersweet Motel, Cyprus Brown, and the tepid but true to style Ruby Mild. The wheat's only on cask and four of the beers are guest beers. One or two is fine, but four means the brewmaster's distracted.

On the other hand, the fried chicken sandwich was excellent (though the avocados were a little much) and my Reuben was very tasty. We used to come here for both the food and the beer, especially brunch, because they were both so very good. Magnolia was the exception that proved the rule.





The better the food at a brewpub, the worse the beer.

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