It’s been almost four months since I’ve been in a place where I could fall out my door and have hundreds of destinations in walking distance.  Makes me miss new york a little bit.

Consulting the various beer resources I’ve used over the years, I found recommendations for what appeared to be the top beer snob destinations in SF.  That list included Zeitgeist, Monk’s Kettle, 21st Amendment, Magnolia Pub, and some other places that I obviously didn’t go to.  In fact, given that it was raining AGAIN, we only made it to the first two places on the list.  Plus a wine bar called Cav for dinner.

I forgot to take pictures of Cav and Zeitgeist, and also the historic streetcar (which was incredibly cool, they run a number of different international, historic streetcars on many of the train lines).  Cav was like a new york style wine bar with great wine and food (made me nostalgic for NY again); Zeitgeist was like a biker bar with bicycles instead of harleys and hipsters instead of hells angels.  Zeitgeist had a fantastic beer selection — I had a few beers from Oregon that I’d never had before, making me very excited about my stint in Eugene and Portland coming up next week.

After all that was Monk’s Kettle, which is my new favorite place in norcal.  Amazing beer selection, great atmosphere, etc.  A bit crowded, but whatever.  All of the pictures below are from there.

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