One of the people who built our beer culture needs our help. In 1992, Brian Hunt founded Moonlight Brewing with a simple but powerful idea: make exceptional beer, do things your own way, and do it all with infectious passion and curiosity. Over the past 34 years, Brian has become
Plus, three award-winning newsletters — and a whole lot more beer writing — worth adding to your reading list. The Brew Deck has been recognized by the North American Guild of Beer Writers (NAGBW) with an Emerging Voice award in the Best Blog/Newsletter category at the 2026 NAGBW Awards. The
From local brewery collaboration to statewide advocacy, your favorite breweries work together behind the scenes to make our local beer culture better than ever. Last week, the Bay Area Brewers Guild held its annual member meeting at Drake’s Barrel House in San Leandro. While our five regional chapters each
The Bay Area’s GABF results are another reminder that this region’s brewing excellence deserves a much bigger place in the national conversation. At the 2026 Great American Beer Festival, Morgan Territory Brewing and Fieldwork Brewing Company were each named Brewery of the Year in their respective production categories.
There are a lot of reasons to go to a beer event. There’s the beer, obviously, and tomorrow night at The Tech Interactive we are gathering eight extraordinary brewers. There’s music. There’s food. There’s the novelty of getting to do things you normally can't
Unusually green, intensely aromatic beers have begun showing up around the Bay Area lately. Our annual signal that hop harvest season has arrived, bringing with it the wonderfully ephemeral pleasure of wet hop beer! Wet Hop beers are only possible for a few weeks of the year. The short window
It’s that time of year again: Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine’s annual Best in Beer survey is open for voting. If you’ve been paying attention to what’s happening around the Bay Area, we’d encourage you to take a few minutes and cast your ballot. Last
The beers your local brewers think are worth putting in front of the best judges in the world are on tap right now. Last week, the Guild collected entries from dozens of our member breweries. Those beers are now sitting on a refrigerated truck headed toward Denver, where they’ll
Imagine a wedding reception so spectacular that the entire country got invited and had such a good time that they decided to keep the party going for more than two centuries! That, more or less, is the origin story of Oktoberfest. On October 12, 1810, Bavaria celebrated the marriage of
Hello Beer People, We’re keeping the Brew Deck very brief this week because the Guild is deep in the weeds co-producing Barebottle’s Suds Francisco this Sunday at Salesforce Park. A few things you should know: Suds Francisco prices go up tomorrow (Thursday). If you’ve been thinking
