Screeners I've been invited to but won't attend

[Drunk Monk]

If you want to write it up, I can send you. These screeners are in SF.

Here's one more. Today was a big invite day...

AMSTERDAM

[Drunk Monk]

CATHERINE CALLED BIRDY

[Drunk Monk]

THE GREATEST BEER RUN EVER

[Greg]

I kind of want to see that. But in the comfort of my own home.

[Drunk Monk]

meh. I've lived it. And I don't drink beer anymore so I've lost interest...

[King Bob]

We had some good (too good?) times at those SF beer fests. Although I think that's not what they called it. My excuse is that I was drunk.

[Drunk Monk]

So epic. We were blessed.

KQED Beer festival signs off
Bill Citara, EXAMINER FOOD AND WINE CRITIC
April 29, 1998
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Just as the popularity of craft and microbrewed beers is peaking, one of the country's premier suds 'n' grub events has gone by the wayside. KQED's annual Beer & Food Festival, a fixture in late June for the past 15 years, has been dropped by the station as being peripheral to its main purpose.
"We looked at the mission of our organization," says KQED spokesman David Shaw, "and we wanted to do things that are more related to our mission of public broadcasting."
That means the annual Food & Wine and Ice Cream Social events are also history, but it's the Beer Festival that really rode the crest of an emerging trend. Last year's festival showed just how strong that trend has become - some 250 beers from more than 20 countries and throughout the United States were poured, accompanied by everything from pizza and barbecue to Cajun and Indian cuisines.
The festival also attracted over 5,000 people and raised $100,000 for KQED, money that Shaw says the station hopes to replace by increasing its membership.
There is a ray of hope for the festival's rebirth, though it's not likely to occur this year. Tom Daldorf, publisher of the Hayward-based Celebrator Beer News, says his publication is interested in putting on the event and in fact has already invested substantial time and effort in the potential project. He says that for this year, however, "the time line is just too short. I hate to skip a year, but it's a great festival with a great history, and I'd rather do that than screw it up."
Beyond insufficient time, the other hang-up is finding a sponsor. Daldorf says he's been in negotiations with a couple of major food and / or beverage retailers about kicking in the $40,000 or so necessary to stage the event, but nothing's been nailed down. The San Francisco Food Bank is said to be interested in being the festival's charity beneficiary, but that's not set in place either.
If the Celebrator does manage to put together a festival for next year, it would likely be held at the same time and in the same place as the previous festivals, San Francisco's South of Market Concourse Exhibition Center. It would also feature an increased emphasis on fine suds from around the world, as well as on the pairing of beer and food, both in cooking demonstrations and perhaps in a pavilion devoted to the Bay Area's wealth of foodie-oriented brewpubs.
Keep your fingers crossed that Daldorf and Co. can pull it off; it would be a shame to pour 15 years of beer-drinking tradition down the drain.
Helping to wash the taste of airline food out of your mouth is Gordon Biersch Marzen, a German-style lager produced and bottled by the Bay Area-based brewmeister and owner of a chain of high-end brewpubs. The beer is now being offered on all Hawaiian Airlines flights between the islands and the mainland and is one of the first craft beers to be sold on U.S. airlines.
It's also, say the folks at GB, the most popular craft beer in Hawaii - no surprise if you've ever seen the crowds jammed into the spacious Gordon Biersch Brewery-Restaurant at the Aloha Tower Marketplace in Honolulu. I had the chance to eat dinner there a couple of months ago; not only was the food quite delicious, but the view - a huge outdoor patio facing the harbor - wasn't too shabby, either.
Now if they could only do something about those hideous rubber-chicken dinners.
From the Monterey Peninsula, a vacation spot closer to home, comes word that local Carmel Brewing Co. has agreed to merge with Mendocino Brewing Co. of Hopland, best-known for its award-winning Red Tail Ale.
The result of the merger will be that most of Carmel Brewing's beers will be brewed at Mendocino's new brewery in Ukiah and that the Monterey Bay company will be able to take advantage of its new partner's increased marketing support. Carmel Brewing will continue to brew its own suds at its 150-seat brewpub located at the Monterey Wharf Doubletree Hotel.

[thatguy]

I went to "Breast Fest" at Fort Mason once with a friend. http://thebreastfest.org/about

The beers were good, and his daughter was a DD, so we got pretty hammered. 

Not enough breasts (none actually), tho, so I call false advertising...

--tg

[Drunk Monk]

I still have a set of ukiyo carddboard beer coasters I got from the Asahi booth at the Beer Fest that I'm using right now on my work space desk. They've been part of my work desk for like 20+ years...

[Drunk Monk]

AMSTERDAM: The IMAX® Live Experience
CHRISTIAN BALE AND MIKE MYERS TO JOIN  AMSTERDAM : THE IMAX® LIVE EXPERIENCE EXCLUSIVE Q&A WITH DIRECTOR/WRITER/PRODUCER DAVID O. RUSSELL

[Greg]

I'd see that. Again, in the comfort of my own home.

[thatguy]

AMSTERDAM: The IMAX® Live Experience
CHRISTIAN BALE AND MIKE MYERS TO JOIN 

Awesome!



--tg

[thatguy]

CATHERINE CALLED BIRDY

The trailer...


--tg

[Drunk Monk]

NANNY

This is part of the Mill Valley Film Festival and interviews are tossed in.

[Drunk Monk]

SHE SAID

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TÁR

that one is tempting but the timing is bad plus I need a break from writing and I think this one would be too much of a stretch.

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TILL
Director CHINONYE CHUKWU will be in 
San Francisco on Tuesday, October 11 
and available for interviews.