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Friday, 29 October 2010 01:02

Sierra Nevada Pulls Off Stunning Win at Swissnex SF

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Now that October Madness is progressing into the later rounds, the stakes are so much higher with every head-to-head tasting. Although, it nowhere near approaches the pressure facing players on the San Francisco Giants and Texas Rangers as they battle it out in the 2010 World Series. On Wednesday night, those two events came

to a head at the headquarters of swissnex San Francisco, as two more beers battled it out with baseball on the big screen.

The Location: swissnex San Francisco, 730 Montgomery St.

The Beer: Sierra Nevada’s Kellerweis Hefeweizen and Deschutes’ Black Butte Porter

The Method of Dispense: Standard kegerator (Black Butte) and bottles chilled in an icy tub (Kellerweis)

How They Fared: Black Butte Porter has been a longtime favorite among the Wired staff, so we were understandably a little nervous about bringing it out to the masses to what other people might think. Fortunately, Black Butte gained a few fans Wednesday night as well. “How could you not like the Black Butte?” said Colin Dixon, an office manager for the Public Library of Science. “Great choice for a cool SF fall day,” said Brian Mossop, also of PLoS. “It tastes like the first time I kissed a girl, won at sports, and drove a car — all at once,” said writer Dan Maxwell.

Still, Sierra Nevada’s Kellerweis proved a popular choice with the baseball-cheering crowd. “Delicious!” raved Dwell assistant editor Jordan Kushins. “Cidery goodness. Tastes like fall,” said another patron, while Bridgit Dixon declared Kellerweis “the nicest German I’ve ever met!”

And in the revelry of the Giants pulling off an upset to take a 1-0 lead in the World Series, Kellerweis took down the mighty Black Butte Porter by a comfortable nine-vote margin to advance to the Elite Eight of our ongoing October Madness extravanaganza.

Image: Above:swissnex SF. Below: Erik Malinowski/Wired.com

Stay tuned to @wiredplaybook and @beerrobot for updates on attending future October Madness events in the Bay Area. Follow us on Twitter at @erikmal and @wiredplaybook and on Facebook.

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Authors: Erik Malinowski

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