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One sour ale has a gaggle of noted fans

We've long had a soft spot for Flemish red ales. The sour beers boast many names, including Flanders red and Belgian red. No matter the nomenclature, its attributes are always the...

Macau Machination

Hopped up on another fine iced coffee

The iced-coffee chronicles continue. The chicory-laced New Orleans version from Blue Bottle is still ubiquitous, and we've recently extolled the thrills of the spiced brew from...

Slurp He

Grand Coffee's Nabeel Silmi knows his egg cream

Authenticity is a murky conceit; deliciousness, not so much. To that end, consider the egg cream from Nabeel Silmi of the new Grand Coffee in the Mission, where fine espresso from...

In a Muddle

A recent classic gets a bubbly overhaul

San Francisco is having a mojito moment. But fret not: This current fervor around muddled mint and lime does not involve a rehashing of the overplayed turn-of-the-millennium...

Wound Up

A new bitter has San Francisco in a cocktail tizzy

A bottle of brick-red liquid has San Francisco's best bartenders in a fevered state. The perpetrator: Gran Classico Bitter, a Swiss aperitif made from an over-a-century-old recipe...

'Frisco Pisco

The spirit of San Francisco returns

You might call pisco San Francisco's most iconic spirit. The City by the Bay has had a centuries-long history with the Peruvian grape brandy. It began when explorers and gold...