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Below is a list of craft beer and related events taking place throughout Silicon Valley in the near future and beyond. Friday, May 3, 2013: At 5 p.m., a cask of El Dorado Single Hop IPA from San Jose’s Hermitage Brewing Company will be tapped at Tied House Brewery and Café in Mountain View as [read more >>]

Compelling news and developments concerning the Silicon Valley craft beer landscape are making the rounds at a relatively high rate it seems. The San Jose Co-op Brewpub has been in the media spotlight lately and the Market Beer Company recently opened in San Pedro Square Market. More establishments with a beer focus are hosting noteworthy [read more >>]

Mountain View’s Tied House Brewery & Cafe hosts their First Firkin event today starting at 5 p.m. It is an ongoing event that they host on the first Friday of each month where they tap a different cask holding 10.8 gallons of real ale. According to recent Facebook updates, today’s firkin tapping is an Imperial [read more >>]

There are special beer events taking place every day in the South Bay from Wed., Dec. 5 to Mon., Dec. 10, including a cask ale tapping, a beer festival, and a beer and food pairing dinner. Wednesday, 12/5/12 Original Gravity Public House in downtown San Jose shares the following event information from their Facebook page: [read more >>]

There is still time to make plans to enjoy October’s First Firkin Friday at Tied House Brewery and Café in Mountain View, with a firkin (a cask filled with about 10.9 gallons of real ale) of Hermitage Brewing Hoptopia (Double IPA) dry hopped with experimental hop #04187 to be tapped at 5 p.m. Per the [read more >>]

Last month, there were two special beer launch parties in San Jose and Mountain View. The first took place on Friday, June 15, 2012 along East Taylor Street at the Gordon Biersch brewery and bottling facility in San Jose. Owner Dan Gordon was on hand to introduce the Imperial Pilsner Brau (IPB), the first in [read more >>]