I’ll take Coca-Cola over Pepsi, but root beer has always been my favorite soda. I’d been vaguely aware of the proliferation of newly chic “old-fashioned” root beers, but the other day in BevMo! I was confronted with a staggering variety, spread over five shelves. Could they really be that different? I took home samples from […]

The vodka known as Hangar One is actually produced by St. George Spirits, which is made on a former naval base on Alameda, a pile of landfill on the bay wedged between San Francisco and Oakland.

By a happy accident, we got there last weekend just in time for a tour of the facilities (Saturdays and […]