Beer, Wine & Spirits

Match Point Brewing craft sports-minded beers

A tennis ball makes up the top half of Match Point Brewing’s logo. Co-founders Johnny Weng and Simon Chen grew up playing the sport together. Their ongoing dedication to the game includes an annual tennis tournament held in June at Albany’s Memorial Park and a recent U.S. Open Finals...
Nat Harry guides discerning drinkers in ‘Spirits Distilled’

Nat Harry guides discerning drinkers in ‘Spirits Distilled’

In 2012, Nat Harry won the East Bay Express award for “Best Bartender in the East Bay.” At the time an EBX article described Harry’s presence at Berkeley’s Revival Bar + Kitchen as, “Relentlessly adventurous, well-studied but...
Ninth Life's Nostalgic Remix

Ninth Life’s Nostalgic Remix

Ninth Life, a bar inspired by the '80s, '90s and aughts, is a memory capsule that aims to balance kitsch with cool, but it suffers from both valorizing a past that never existed and not fully committing to it.
Alameda's Park Street welcomes Mo's Wine Bar

Alameda’s Park Street Welcomes Mo’s Wine Bar

Mo's Wine Bar, located at 1515 Park Street in Alameda, offers a wide variety of classic and natural wines, and will host "Winemaker Wednesday" events featuring local winemakers.

Face-Off With Fieldwork: An unlikely craft beer titan rises in San Leandro

Even energetic beer-averse objectors—people who have never liked and firmly believe they will never meet a beer they can enjoy—will crumble in a face-off with Fieldwork Brewing Company CEO and co-founder Barry Braden. Or so it seems,...

Brews With a View: In Alameda, plentiful parking and hundreds of outdoor seats

When barkeeps at Alameda Point talk about seating, they rattle off numbers in the hundreds, without exact figures. Most seats are outside, because that’s how the spaces were designed pre-pandemic. Floor spaces are 20,000 or 25,000 square...

East Bay Beer Trends: Are IPAs still a Bay Area favorite?

One thing the last two years have taught us is that predicting the future is impossible. It’s difficult to imagine what will happen in the next few weeks, let alone during the next year. But that’s not stopping...

Brews With Benefits: Tannery Bend Beerworks provides hops with hope by investing in their...

Opened by partners Matt Cromwell, Lauren Cromwell and Tyler Rodde, friends since they met in high school in Napa—Matt and Lauren have since married—Tannery on Telegraph is meant to represent the gathering of friends and family to celebrate a pairing that appeals to most: quality beer and food.
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