February is Craft Beer Overload in San Francisco

Seriously, this month is craft-beer overload with SF Beer Week starting on the 10th and then yesterday Magnolia and 21st Amendment and Social Kitchen kicked off Strong Beer Month.

I just found this list of Strong Beers to be featured and there are not enough days in the month of Feb to try all of them… Maybe we should have Strong Beer Year!

Magnolia Pub and Brewery: 1398 Haight (at Masonic), 864-7468

1) Old Thunderpussy - barleywine, 11.9% abv
2) Smokestack Lightning - imperial stout, 10.7% abv
3) Pride of Branthill, imperial ESB (extra special bitter), 8.9% abv
4) Tweezer Tripel - abbey tripel, 10.1% abv
5) Promised Land - imperial IPA, 11.5% abv
6) Punch You in the Rye - strong rye ale, 8.0% abv

21st Amendment Brewery: 563 Second St. (at Bryant), 369-0900

1) Lord & Master - strong English blonde, 8.3% abv
2) Triple Crisis - imperial IPA, 11.0% abv
3) Red Giant - imperial red ale, 13.0% abv
4) Oaked Drunken Monk - dark abbey ale, 9.5%
5) Two Lane Blacktop - imperial black IPA, 9.8% abv
6) Hendrick’s - imperial stout, 9.5% abv

Social Kitchen and Brewery: 1326 Ninth Ave. (at Irving), 681-0330

1) Liquidator - Doppelbock, 8.0% abv
2) White Thai Affair - Belgian-style golden ale with galangal and lemongrass (inspired by Thai tom kha soup), 9.2% abv
3) Nessie - oaky, dry, smokey ale inspired by Scotch whiskey, 12.1% abv
4) The Big Lebowski White Prussian - smoked wheat beer brewed with coffee (interpretation of a white russian cocktail), 9.0% abv
5) Double Doozy - imperial IPA brewed exlusively with organic chinook hops, 9.0% abv