The “City”, the BART the Redwoods, the Mystery Spot, Google, the Sharks - the lovely north. Starting tonight, and through-out the next two weeks or so we will be featuring a few specialty ales from our pals in and around the Bay Area.

Tonight we will be tapping a cask of IPA from Magnolia in San Francisco. The Magnolia is a brew pub in the Haight specializing in their own craft beer and farm fresh cuisine. They have been around for a while but recently renovated their spot, thus we have recently been story swapping. Anywho, the folks at Magnolia sent down a few casks by way of the real ale festival a few weeks back and one landed here, lucky us. It’s called Proving Ground IPA and from what Ben, who brews at Magnolia, says it’s a winner. A west coast style IPA mellowed out with an heirloom malting barley called Marris Otter. For more about this check out their own blog spot. magnoliapub.blogspot.com

We also have bottles of Tribute Brown from Bear Repubic as well as a cask of APEX IPA from them. This is their own house IPA, that they sent down extra special for us! From Moylan’s we have a cask of Moylander IPA and a keg of their award winning Hopsickle.