Review: Weltenburger Dunkel

I am not much of a German beer fan, so when I went to Suppenkuche the other day, I had to ask for their recommendation.  And a great recommendation it was.
The Weltenburger Dunkel is a smooth, sweet darker beer.
It went perfectly with the sauteed porkloin and spatzle.
I strongly recommend this restaurant and this beer.
Suppenkuche
525 Laguna st.
San Francisco CA 94102

Review: MateVeza Beer

I've had this place on my To Go list for some months; so long I cannot remember where I first heard about it.
It's pretty much a take-out place and being located next to Dolores Park makes that quite an easy thing to do.
I sampled 2 beers of theirs: one a reddish, no-hop, Kriek-like beer, and their main MateVeza.
The former was a bit too fruity and bitter for me.  The latter was a good, somewhat normal tasting IPA.  I could not taste anything specially different considering it is made with mate.

Cervecería de MateVeza
3801 18th St
San Francisco, California

Doggie Style Classic Pale Ale

Delicious!
This is an awesome, sweet ale!

Consumed at:
The Mad Dog in the Fog
530 Haight St
San Francisco, CA 94117

Review: English Ales Brewery

I hate to trash a microbrew place but I have no choice with this place.
Their beer just isn't good.
I got the Dragon Slayer IPA and it was not to my liking.  It wasn't that it was bland; it had a flavor.  It just wasn't what I would call good.
My friend had a four beer taste flight of their porter, pale ale, and corkscrew ale beers as well as the Dragon Slayer.  All of them were a bit off. 
The one redeeming factor was the fun collection of beer mugs hanging from the ceiling.  Regulars buy mugs and are served from their mugs when they come.  Nice idea.

English Ales Brewery
223 Reindollar
Marina, California 93933 USA

Pyramid IPA @ roller derby

Alright, I admit that I am just writing this review so I can talk about the awesome time I had at the roller derby match last night. It was a sold out match, first of the season, between the San Francisco ShEvil Dead and the Richmond Wrecking Belles.  We were obviously good luck to the ShEvil Dead.  When we arrived, they were behind by 30 points.  At the end of the night they won 158-119!
My favorite player was tiny Trixie Pixie.  She just slipped past the defenders and scored over and over.
As for the beer, I was a bit disappointed.  I had Pyramid Ale's IPA.  It was far to sweet for my tastes. (BTW That is not my hand in the photo.)

The Craneway Pavilion
1414 Harbour Way South
Richmond, CA

Steelhead

We did the sampler here and, boy, that was the right decision.
Our favorite by far was the one the 3 seasonal beers they gave us.
Since these are not listed on their website, I'll have to go from memory.
It was a strong ale.  Very nice.  At first I thought I had a bit of an aftertaste from the excessively chocolatey-flavored stout, but I realized that was part of it's complex flavor.  (Just thinking of it makes me wish I wrote down it's name.) 
As I mentioned, the chocolate stout was a bit much.  Great, but we were very lucky to get just this small glass of it.  It was more like hot chocolate in flavor than beer. 
Of their standards, I liked their IPA the best. 
Although I am not really a big guy with blondes (not just the beers), I did like their blonde.
As expected, their Hefeweizen was not to my taste despite it's fun name: Hairy Weasel.

Steelhead Brewing Company
333 California Drive
Burlingame, CA 94010
 

Sweetgrass of Grand Teton Brewing

Sweetgrass is a very smooth and drinkable APA (American Pale Ale).
Good one to have with a meal; not too strong as to interfere with the taste of what you are eating.
For an APA it is not too hoppy, which makes me happy.

Maven
598 Haight St
San Francisco, CA 94117