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Life’s Three Guarantees – Moonlight Brewing’s Death & Taxes (black lager)

3/23/2015

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I stopped by San Francisco’s Hogwash, a trendy beer and sausage bar, the other day to avoid yet another major BART delay heading back to the East Bay after work.  (Note:  There’s a reason why SF residents Gail Ann Williams and Steve Shapiro created http://beerbybart.com/ - not only for safety, but to help us commuters overcome our routine delays!)  I was excited to checkout Hogwash because 1) the beer list, 2) artisan sausages such as the butternut squash vegan sausage, and 3) the beer list.  Just a few blocks from Union Square, this is the date spot of SF beer bars.  Modern and dimly lit, errrrbody looks good at Hogwash.  I scanned the list of approximately 20+ beers, only to get stuck on one of my faves, Moonlight Brewing’s Death & Taxes. 

Founded in 1992, Moonlight is a tiny brewery based out of Santa Rosa, CA.  Brewer/Owner Brian Hunt is a Bay Area beer legend who gets mad respect from beer peeps near and far.  Death & Taxes, a 5% ABV black lager, is one of Moonlight’s five year-round beers and also its flagship beer.  A stickler for quality control, Moonlight’s beers can pretty much only be found on draft throughout the North Bay, East Bay, and SF.  In 2013, Moonlight announced opening a growler fill station/taproom in Santa Rosa, but from what I last read, this is still in progress. 

Death and taxes are life’s two guarantees, but the third guarantee is that Moonlight’s Death & Taxes is one of my top five beers.  Moonlight simply describes this beer as “a very dark yet surprisingly light-bodied lager beer, crisp and refreshing with no heaviness.”  Agreed, but they left out the part about its robust caramel and coffee aroma and that it smells and looks like a porter, but its light texture will bring you back to its lager roots.  There are some other really good black lagers out there such as HenHouse’s Mrs. Schwarzbier and New Belgium’s 1554, but nothing beats Death & Taxes (hello, irony!).   



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What a very interesting brewery shop this is! Here at my place, I can say that there are only two bars. Those two bars are our refuge every time we need to have a cozy place to stay with. I must say that we have built a lot of good memories on those two bars. However, my friends and I are now trying to look for some other good place because we don't want to be bound with the same old place. And I think this one fits what we are looking for. This might be somehow far away from where we at but I know this will be worth visiting.

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