Our Imperial Stout Edition of Sipping Sessions is here!

Melissa will be hosting a guided tasting of five different Imperial Stout selections from our bottle cooler. She'll talk about style characteristics and flavor profiles for each, and discuss each of the breweries. This is an intimate, laid back, very conversational setting. It’s meant to be fun, and also a chance to learn a little something new while trying delicious beers!

Our Imperial Stout edition is typically one of our most popular Sipping Sessions, so don’t wait, sign up today.

$20 reserves you a spot, and space is limited so sign up at:

www.thegoodhop.com/merch/sippingsessions

On Sunday, December 30th we're hosting Loteria at The Good Hop to celebrate the end of 2018! From 4pm - 7pm, join us for a little bit of "Mexican Bingo" and independent beers.

It is FREE to play, and there will be prizes for the winners! 

Wondering what Loteria is? Here is a little bit of historical background for ya: http://www.teresavillegas.com/history-of-la-loteria/

See you there!

Our neighbors over at Almanac Beer Company in Alameda are coming to The Good Hop to host trivia! On Tuesday, December 18th, the Almanac crew will be reppin’ and showcasing some of their latest releases.

On draft we will have:

Loud Hazy DIPA

Universal Ghost BBA Imperial Stout with Vanilla

Fruit Cobbler Sour Ale with Peaches, Blueberries & Spices

We will also have a selection of bottles and cans (Including cans of the Universal Ghost!)

Trivia starts at 7:30pm. Please note: Up to 6 people per team, please!

Cheers.

Our Winter Seasonal Edition of Sipping Sessions is here!

Melissa will be hosting a guided tasting of five different Winter Seasonal selections from our bottle cooler. She'll talk about style characteristics and flavor profiles of some of the super interesting and delicious beers that only come out once a year. It's not ALL spice and everything nice! There will be a range of styles included in the tasting

$20 reserves you a spot, and space is limited so sign up today at www.thegoodhop.com/merch/sippingsessions

You already know The Good Hop is about that Berg Life. Well, we're going next level on you for Trivia Tuesday on December 11th with a special Underberg Edition!

We'll have official Underberg reps in the house hosting a round of trivia and spreading the Underberg love (and schwag of course!) The winning teams are definitely going home super Berg-swagged out!
We will have a special menu of Underberg cocktails, and the option to "Put a Berg On It" with any beer or cider.

Trivia starts at 7:30pm - come get trivial with us!

*Please note: Trivia teams are a max of 6 people per team.

Ting Su, co-owner of Eagle Rock Brewery and founder of the Eagle Rock Brewery Women's Beer Forum, is coming to hang with us at The Good Hop!

On Sunday, December 2nd from 5pm - 8pm, we're gonna do a little Sunday afternoon sippin' with Ting. We'll have 4 Eagle Rock beers on tap, and a few specialty bottles and cans available to take home with you. Ting will be hanging out to chat and throw a couple back with us. Come meet her and find out more about all the kick-ass things she is doing down South with her Women's Beer Forum! 

On tap: 
All Your Oat Hazy IPA
Solidarity Black Lager
Peach Noir dark sour ale with peaches (VERY limited in Nor Cal!)
Rose Gose kettle sour with black currants, raspberries, peaches & Himalayan pink salt

See you there!

Want to learn all about what makes a gose a gose? Want to hang out and discuss the varieties of the style and how it has been adapted for a modern audience? How about from one of the leading experts on the topic in the brewing industry, Fal Allen?? Join us for our Special Edition Sipping Sessions on Wednesday, November 14th!

Fal Allen, brewmaster at Anderson Valley Brewing Company and author of "Gose: Brewing a Classic German Beer for the Modern Era," will be joining us next month for all of the above. We will have 5-6 different variations of his goses, and he will lead an intimate and informative tasting and discussion with us.

Fal will also be bringing copies of his book, which will be available for purchase.

Tickets are $20 each, and are available on our website here.

In order to maintain an intimate setting, tickets and seating will be limited.

Sign up today to reserve your spot!

We're celebrating Halloween at The Good Hop with our good friends at Ghost Town Brewing and Epidemic Ales! They'll be hosting our trivia night (Halloween and all things macabre themed, of course) on Tuesday, October 30th from 7:30pm - 10pm.

The breweries will be joining Paul and hosting a special themed round, and will be handing out super cool schwag and prizes to the winners. We'll have draft available from both Ghost Town and Epidemic, and the crews will be hanging out with us for the evening.

Costumes are not required, but they are encouraged!! This is our official Halloween party this year, so we're gonna be ready to rock. There will be a prize for best costume!

Our next Sipping Sessions is Wednesday, October 10th. It will be hosted by the one and only Melissa Myers. This month we are focusing on Fall Seasonals! Yes, that means pumpkin beers, but not ONLY pumpkin beers - we'll be exploring traditional fest biers and other fall seasonal goodness as well. Come learn a little bit and get your Fall on with us!

How does Sipping Sessions work, you ask? The concept is simple: there are SO MANY different bottles & cans in our #WallOBeer at The Good Hop, it sometimes feels impossible to try them all. On the 2nd Wednesday of each month, our Sipping Sessions will be highlighting a different style of beer, and we will be hosting a bottle pour. Our staff will discuss the style characteristics, variations and flavor profiles of each beer, and encourage discussion and a little bit of fun.

**This is a ticketed event, and space is limited!** Tickets are $20 each and include FIVE 5oz pours of beer. Please note that your space is not guaranteed until you have paid the registration fee. You can register online at: www.thegoodhop.com/merch/sippingsessions

Cheers to trying alllll the beers!

Funkwerks is finally here! The funk-tastic brewery from Fort Collins, Colorado is finally available on the West Coast, and we'll be gettin' funky with the crew next Tuesday!

Tuesday, October 2nd we will be tapping FIVE Funkwerks beers, including two gold medal winning styles!

Draft list will include:

- Raspberry Provincial (2014 GABF Gold)

- Oud Bruin (2018 World Beer Cup Gold)

- Tropic King Imperial Saison

- Peachy King Peach Barrel Aged Imperial Saison

- Super Genius IPA (21A / Funkwerks Collaboration!)

The Funkwerks and 21A crews will be chillin' with us in the afternoon, so come down, enjoy a beer or two, and get to know the folks. Cheers!

It's time for another Trivia Tuesday, Brewery Edition! This time the crew from The Booth Brewing Co. US (Eureka, CA / Seoul, Korea) will be coming out to host a round of trivia on Tuesday, September 25th.

Cans and draft will be available, including Kukmin IPA, EurekaSeoul Single Hop Series, Fun Follower Wit and Drinking Session Ale.

Paul will be our regular host, with his usual mix of pop culture, music, current events, general trivia and a rotating theme round. The Booth crew will be adding a South Korea trivia round to test your knowledge of their home country (where 80% of the beer they produce in Eureka is shipped to their eager fans!)

Prizes will be awarded for first, second, and best small team. They will include super sweet brewery schwag from The Booth, as well as TGH Draft Tokens.

See you there! Cheers. 

It's almost time for Town Love Fest 2018, folks. 

On Saturday, September 15th, we will once again be celebrating ALL the Oakland brewers at The Good Hop! We will have a beer from each Oakland brewery, and be hanging with the brewery crews throughout the afternoon and evening. 

Ale Industries - Oakland United Beerworks - Woods Bar & Brewery - Novel Brewing Company - Old Kan Beer and Co. - Independent Brewing Company - Roses' Taproom - Line 51 Brewing Company - Ghost Town Brewing - Original Pattern Brewing Co. - Lucky Devil Brewing Company - Crooked City Cider - Federation Brewing - Temescal Brewing - Hoi Polloi Brewing

This year we are gonna take it up a notch and highlight Oakland artists and vendors as well. Throughout the month of September we will feature an Oakland Artist Showcase featuring: Deadeyes, Yoni Matatyaou, Maxine Teichman Art & Design, Peyote Gutierrez, Hunter De La Ghetto, Bigfoot, Woke Bitch, Andrew Lloyd Westhoff and Kit Vogel.

SPIRIT SLIDERS will be serving up their delicious sliders ALL DAY LONG, from 2pm - 10pm. 

Our neighbors at Cafe Lit will also be bringin' the 🔥 with delivery service as you chill out with us at the bar! 

Town Love Fest is all about celebrating the beauty and strength of Oakland's brewers, artists, creators and small businesses. Let's show our Town Love. 

Cheers!

Pizza Port Carter is bringing his FISHin' Expedition to The Good Hop! Pizza Port is releasing a new IPA - the Fish IPA to be exact.

"Surfboards come in all shapes and sizes, but the fish surfboard is known as the fun, everyday board found in every surfer's quiver. Just like the board, Fish IPA was brewed for enjoyment in all conditions. This West Coast IPA has bright citrus and tropical notes, followed by hints of lemon, gooseberry and melon."

Pizza Port Carter will be posted up in the bottle shop from 6-8pm manning his "fishin' hole" where you can fish for beer cans and win prizes! (We honestly can't wait to see this.)

We'll have draft AND cans of the Fish IPA available, as well as TWO specialty draft selections: Kittens with Lasers Mango Blonde, and Death Star Stout!

Our next Sipping Sessions is Wednesday, September 12th. It will be hosted by the one and only Melissa Myers. This month we are focusing on Ambers and Reds. In the era of HOPS MORE HOPS ADD FRUIT MAKE IT SOUR etc, sometimes this portion of our bottle case can be neglected, or even passed over by some folks. Let's change that. We'll visit the classic, maltier, Amber styles of ales and lagers. Melissa will talk about the brewing process, and discuss tasting notes and variations on the market today. Let's drink some beers and learn some stuff! 
 
How does Sipping Sessions work, you ask? The concept is simple: there are SO MANY different bottles & cans in our #WallOBeer at The Good Hop, it sometimes feels impossible to try them all. On the 2nd Wednesday of each month, our Sipping Sessions will be highlighting a different style of beer, and we will be hosting a bottle pour. Our staff will discuss the style characteristics, variations and flavor profiles of each beer, and encourage discussion and a little bit of fun.

**This is a ticketed event, and space is limited!** Tickets are $20 each and include FIVE 5oz pours of beer. Please note that your space is not guaranteed until you have paid the registration fee. You can register online at: www.thegoodhop.com/merch/sippingsessions

Cheers to trying alllll the beers!

Sasquatch is coming to The Good Hop on Wednesday, September 5th! Join us to taste this elusive and mysterious beer, and "cheers" with some of the brewers.

Brewed in collaboration with Glen Hay Falconer Foundation Scholarship recipients, this year’s Sasquatch Legacy beer is a fruity and subtly spicy Saison, dry hopped with Ella hops. Pouring golden in color, this collaboration beer features an uplifting grapefruit hop aroma with hints of spice.

Proceeds benefit the Glen Hay Falconer Foundation’s brewing scholarship program. To date, the Foundation has granted 40 brewing education scholarships and currently offers three scholarships annually, two to the Siebel Institute of Technology and one to the American Brewers Guild.

Started by Walking Man Brewing in 2006, the Sasquatch Legacy Project transitioned to Ninkasi Brewing in 2012. Each year, Glen Hay Falconer Scholarship recipients gather in Eugene to brew a commemorative batch in honor of the late brewer, Glen Hay Falconer. This year’s beer was developed by the 2017 scholarship recipients: Jen Jordan of Anchor Brewing Company, Aaron Blonden of Chainline Brewing Company, Alyson Hartwig formerly of Dry Dock Brewing Company, and Matt Ponichtera of Maui Brewing Co.

Up-and-coming mixed culture brewer ALTBRAU will be joining us at The Good Hop for a special night of barrel aged beers! They will be pouring 2 of their collaborations with Shady Oak on draft, with (very limited!) bottles to-go. The AltBrau crew will be hanging out to talk about their beers and their future plans for world domination. Join us!

You can check out AltBrau’s crowdfunding campaign at https://igg.me/at/altbrau

It's time for another Trivia Tuesday, Brewery Edition! This time the crew from Epic Brewing (Denver, CO) & Telegraph Brewing (Santa Barbara, CA) will be coming out to host a round of trivia on Tuesday, August 14th.

Paul will be our regular host, with his usual mix of pop culture, music, current events, general trivia and a rotating theme round. Epic & Telegraph will be adding a "grab-bag" round, so who knows what kind of questions they'll be bringing to the table...just make sure YOU bring your A-game. 

Prizes will be awarded for first, second, and best small team. They will include super sweet brewery schwag, as well as TGH Draft Tokens.

See you there! Cheers. 

Drink for a cause with the #TGHCrew at The Good Hop next Thursday, August 9th!

One of our bartenders, Cory McGarvey, has been travelling to Myanmar every year with his non-profit Bridges Myanmar. Their mission is to uplift impoverished communities in Myanmar through partnerships and education. Through their travels and by working with local leaders and members of the local communities, they identify needs and raise money to implement project-based programs that address these needs. Examples include computers and supplies for local schools, educational scholarships and much more.

We think this is pretty amazing work, and we're gonna help raise some money at The Good Hop in support of Bridges Myanmar. 

Join us from 5pm - close on Thursday, August 9th. Proceeds from selected kegs will go directly to the cause! Cory will also be hosting a raffle and silent auction with some really cool stuff - vintage bottles, gift cards to local restaurants and businesses, brewery schwag, and souvenirs/handmade crafts from Myanmar.

Cheers, and see you there!

Our next Sipping Sessions is Wednesday, August 8th! It will be hosted by our very own Cory McGarvey and Melissa Myers. This month we are focusing on Gluten Free beers. We get the question alot: What gluten free beers do you have? Well, Cory has taken it on as his personal mission to expand our selection and bring in some gluten free beers that ACTUALLY TASTE GOOD! We'll talk about how the beers are made, what the difference is between gluten free and gluten reduced, and try a bunch of them out. Let's drink some beers and learn some stuff!
 
How does Sipping Sessions work, you ask? The concept is simple: there are SO MANY different bottles & cans in our #WallOBeer at The Good Hop, it sometimes feels impossible to try them all. On the 2nd Wednesday of each month, our Sipping Sessions will be highlighting a different style of beer, and we will be hosting a bottle pour. Our staff will discuss the style characteristics, variations and flavor profiles of each beer, and encourage discussion and a little bit of fun.

**This is a ticketed event, and space is limited!** Tickets are $20 each and include FIVE 5oz pours of beer. Please note that your space is not guaranteed until you have paid the registration fee. You can register online at: www.thegoodhop.com/merch/sippingsessions

Cheers to trying alllll the beers!

The Henhouse Crew is headed to The Good Hop next Thursday, July 26th! 

We'll be tapping 4 super-fresh, super-specialty beers: Stoked! on Belma, Blanc Helicopters, Extra Frozen Envelope, and Juiced! on Apricot.

The Henhouse crew will be hanging out to chat about beers and pass out some goodies and schwag. Join us from 6pm - 11pm!

Our next Sipping Sessions is Wednesday, July 11th! It will be hosted by our very own Melissa Myers. This month we are focusing on IPAs - specifically the HAZY VS. CLEAR debate. There are a lot of words out there that breweries use to describe their IPAs. Hazy, juicy, New Engalnd-style, West Coast, American, bright...the list goes on. What does it all mean?? Melissa will be dissecting the haze craze, and discussing the various brewing techniques that bring about a hazy (or clear) IPA. Let's drink some beers and learn some stuff!
 
How does Sipping Sessions work, you ask? The concept is simple: there are SO MANY different bottles & cans in our #WallOBeer at The Good Hop, it sometimes feels impossible to try them all. On the 2nd Wednesday of each month, our Sipping Sessions will be highlighting a different style of beer, and we will be hosting a bottle pour. Our staff will discuss the style characteristics, variations and flavor profiles of each beer, and encourage discussion and a little bit of fun.

**This is a ticketed event, and space is limited!** Tickets are $20 each and include FIVE 5oz pours of beer. Please note that your space is not guaranteed until you have paid the registration fee. You can register online at: www.thegoodhop.com/merch/sippingsessions

Cheers to trying alllll the beers!

Seven Stills Brewery is hosting our Trivia Night on Tuesday, July 10th! 

We'll be featuring draft AND cans from Seven Stills (More info TBD!), and hosting a beer themed trivia round led by the Seven Stills team. Our regular host Emily will be in the house to co-host, and will also be bringin' the beer knowledge to test your skills. 

Come hang with the Seven Stills crew, play trivia, drink beer, and win cool prizes. There will be some Seven Stills schwag, as well as the usual TGH Draft Tokens. See you there! 

Cheers. :)

Original Pattern Brewing Co. is releasing THREE new cans this month, and we're gonna have them ALL at The Good Hop!

On Wednesday, June 27th, we'll be hosting the Original Pattern crew and releasing cans / pouring draft of:

- Oakland Gold LAGER, 5.0%, A bright, dry, golden lager beer showcasing local Admiral Maltings malt flavors, balanced with noble hop character

- Unique Arrangement BERLINER WEISSE w/ APRICOT AND PEACH, 4.3%, a delightfully tart, stone fruit forward, wheat beer with a crisp and clean mouthfeel

- Meta Hype DDH HAZY NEW ENGLAND STYLE IPA, 6.0%, A hazy, hop-forward beer focusing on tropical and citrus character. It is a bit more bitter than many contemporary NE-IPA counterparts, providing slightly more balance.

We'll also have a few other draft only options for you to try!

Let's party with the OPBC crew! See you there.

It's our 4th Anniversary this year at The Good Hop! For our Anniversary weekend, in addition to our annual HopFest (Sat 6/16), we're hosting our first ever Bad Dad Joke Competition! It's no coincidence that this falls on Father's Day. So, this Father's Day we will be celebrating all the terribly cringe-worthy and ridiculously corny "dad" jokes that have gotten us all through the years. 

Participating breweries will be sending a carefully selected representative to bring their best (worst?) jokes. Want in on the fun? Think you've got what it takes? Sign up when you arrive! We will be pitting people one-on-one in a face-off that involves rapid-fire jokes paired with a stoic resolve to NOT LAUGH. Once someone laughs, they are out, and the next team will jump in. First come, first serve spots will be open for folks who want to throw their hat in the ring! Competition starts at 3pm.

Of course, we will be pouring delicious beers from the participating breweries, and hanging out with the crews throughout the afternoon. Join us! I mean, what better way to celebrate Father's Day than with good beers and bad jokes?

The Good Hop is celebrating 4 Years! 

Once again we'll be pulling out alllll the hops for our Annual Hopfest. This means ALL hops, ALL day! We're bringing in some extra taps and will have 20+ HOP-centric styles from your favorite breweries.

All beers will be on tap starting when we open at 1pm. Brewers and crews will be hanging with us from 6-9pm, and the always delicious GT BAKES BBQ will be slangin' from 5pm on.

List of participating breweries coming very soon.

Cheers to four awesome years!

Device Brewing Company and Revision Brewing Company have collaborated to brew a new, super-tasty, Northeast-style Hazy IPA!

We're releasing REVICE at The Good Hop on Thursday, May 17th. Come get your hands on these cans! We will also have it on draft so you can hang out and enjoy it with the #TGHCrew. 

Cheers!

Our next Sipping Sessions is Wednesday, May 9th! This one will be the GOSE VS. BERLINER EDITION hosted by our very own Melissa Myers. Come learn about & talk about what makes a Gose a Gose, and a Berliner Weisse a Berliner Weisse! There are a TON of different versions of these styles on the market right now. Let's try some out and learn about the history of the styles and where the latest beer trends are taking them!

How does Sipping Sessions work, you ask? The concept is simple: there are SO MANY different bottles & cans in our #WallOBeer at The Good Hop, it sometimes feels impossible to try them all. On the 2nd Wednesday of each month, our Sipping Sessions will be highlighting a different style of beer, and we will be hosting a bottle pour. Our staff will discuss the style characteristics, variations and flavor profiles of each beer, and encourage discussion and a little bit of fun.

**This is a ticketed event, and space is limited!** Tickets are $20 each and include FIVE 5oz pours of beer. Please note that your space is not guaranteed until you have paid the registration fee. You can register online at: www.thegoodhop.com/merch/sippingsessions

Cheers to trying alllll the beers!

The Juicy Brews WestFest, hosted by Hop Culture magazine is headed to Classic Cars West on Sunday 4/22. There are some killer East Coast breweries coming to showcase their beers, some for the very first time on the West Coast! 

On FRIDAY 4/20, The Good Hop is hosting an official "Pre-Party" and showcasing beers from Magnify Brewing Company and Dancing Gnome Beer! The brewery reps will be hanging with us, talking about their beers, and prepping for Juicy Brews later in the weekend. This is super exciting, as neither brewery is regularly distributed to California. So don't miss your chance to try them out!

MAGNIFY line-up includes:
- Maine Event - New England style IPA with Citra and Simoe, 6.5%. Super Crushable, super juicy. 

- Impatiently Waiting: 12% Imperial Stout Aged in Bourbon Barrels for 15 months with maple syrup, cinnamon and coffee

- Peak of Righteousness: 8% DDH Imperial IPA double dry-hopped with Nelson Sauvin

- French Toast DIPA - Breakfast inspired 8% Double IPA with lactose, vanilla and cinnamon

- Buzz Words - 8% Imperial IPA with local New Jersey honey.

DANCING GNOME line-up:
- Double Lustra DIPA

- Exquisite Beast DIPA

- Pocket Sign IPA

- Tiny Moving Parts  American Pale

TRIPLE CROSSING line-up:
- Waxing Poetic, Berliner Weisse with Blood Orange & Graqpefruit

- Battle Creek DIPA

Heads up: Pizza Port Brewing Co. and 3 Floyds Brewpub have teamed up for the latest Pizza Port "Beer Buddies" collaboration to make the Shredd Session IPA!

Official description:
"Sessionable IPA with Metal injections of pine, orange and other bright tropical fruit notes. From Vic Secret, Topaz, Cascade, Amarillo, and Citra hops. All kolsch/pilsner and rolled oats malt bill gives the beer a bready/toasty finish. Drink fast, drink up, and SHREDD waves of corpse."

We'll also have both cans and draft of Bacon & Eggs Imperial Coffee Porter, as well as draft of Sendiego IPA and Fanny Pack Wit! All of these beers are limited releases, so get in here and get some while you can.

Pizza Port Carter will be hangin' out throughout the evening, so drop in and say what's up to one of the chillest dudes in the beer industry!

Our next Sipping Sessions is Wednesday, April 11th! This one will be the HOP PROFILE EDITION hosted by our very own Melissa Myers. It is more and more common for breweries to call out the hops in their beers, and to put out "single hop" pales and IPAs. This is often done in order to isolate and highlight particular hop flavors and aromas. Let's talk about the different hop varietals, what the differences are, and how we can learn to better identify and appreciate them!

How does Sipping Sessions work, you ask? The concept is simple: there are SO MANY different bottles & cans in our #WallOBeer at The Good Hop, it sometimes feels impossible to try them all. On the 2nd Wednesday of each month, our Sipping Sessions will be highlighting a different style of beer, and we will be hosting a bottle pour. Our staff will discuss the style characteristics, variations and flavor profiles of each beer, and encourage discussion and a little bit of fun.

**This is a ticketed event, and space is limited!** Tickets are $20 each and include FIVE 5oz pours of beer. Please note that your space is not guaranteed until you have paid the registration fee. You can register online HERE.

Cheers to trying alllll the beers!