SF Pride Tap Takeover:
Black Hammer – Mary J Pride IPA (8.2% ABV)
Laughing Monk – Sister Madeline Hazy IPA (6.2% ABV)
Laughing Monk – Brother Harvey Milk-Shake IPA (6.8% ABV)
Harmonic Brewing – Let Me Pride IPA (6.6% ABV)
Oakland United Beerworks – Pride Not Prejudice Saison (4.3% ABV)
Alameda Island Brewing – Taste The Mango (6.5% ABV)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
San Francisco, Calif. — Friday, June 21, 2019– Renowned as the largest gathering of the LGBT community in the nation, San Francisco Pride 2019 celebrates its 49th Anniversary on June 29 & 30, 2019. Running along Market Street in downtown San Francisco, the SF Pride parade (June 30) is emblematic of the pillars of what makes San Francisco one of the foremost liberal cities in the world: Love, Equality, and Diversity. To commemorate SF Pride 2019, acclaimed eatery Jersey Restaurant in the East Cut neighborhood (located just mere blocks from the parade route) hosts an SF Pride Tap Takeover featuring six small-batch Pride beers brewed by an array of the Bay Area’s finest craft breweries. The SF Pride Tap Takeover begins Tuesday, June 25 and runs through pride weekend (June 30).
Jersey Restaurant’s singular craft beer program spotlights the incredible Bay Area beer scene with its 12 draft beer lines and selection of limited edition cans. The SF Pride Tap Takeover includes Black Hammer’s Mary J Pride IPA (8.2% ABV), Laughing Monk’s Sister Madeline Hazy IPA (6.2% ABV) and Brother Harvey Milk-Shake IPA (6.8% ABV), Harmonic Brewing’s Let Me Pride IPA (6.6% ABV), Oakland United Beerworks’ Pride Not Prejudice Saison (4.3% ABV), and Alameda Island Brewing’s Taste The Mango (6.5% ABV). Jersey and Laughing Monk kick off the SF Pride Tap Takeover on Tuesday, June 25 with proceeds from sales of Sister Madeline Hazy IPA and Brother Harvey Milk-Shake IPA benefitting the leading nonprofit, Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (for more information, please visit thesisters.org). Detailed beer descriptions for the SF Pride Tap Takeover are listed below.
“Our inaugural tap takeover for SF Pride 2018 was such a success, we absolutely wanted to represent this year’s array of exceptional local craft beers celebrating SF Pride,” says Ryan Dixon, General Manager of Jersey Restaurant. “It’s exciting to see more and more brewers releasing Pride beers. Craft beer is often not associated with Pride so we knew it was a great opportunity to profile this amazing lineup. With queer folks and queer allies brewing these beers, I think it’s indicative of the inclusiveness of SF Pride. It is a really fun way for everyone to come together during SF Pride 2019.”
Executive Chefs Mitchell and Steven Rosenthal‘s upbringing in Edison, New Jersey is at the heart of the East Coast-style food menu at Jersey Restaurant. Dishes unapologetically pay homage to the brothers’ Jersey childhood memories, along with their travels in Italy, and the culinary excellence of the West Coast — impossibly fresh, subtly Mediterranean inspired, and served in an urban, yet natural environment breaming with warm hospitality. Italian sandwiches, family-style pastas and entrees, a dozen delicious appetizers, and East Coast & West Coast pizzas offer diners delectable options for a taste of New Jersey and beyond right here in San Francisco.
For more information regarding the featured beers at Jersey Restaurant’s SF Pride Tap Takeover, please see below:
Black Hammer — Mary J Pride IPA (8.2% ABV)
Black Hammer Brewing celebrates Pride Month with Mary J. Pride, an American IPA with fresh Rosemary. Black Hammer was born from a culture of radical self-expression and acceptance. They brewed Mary J. Pride to honor the powerhouse people in the LGBTQIA community and allies that have paved the way to a more colorful, exciting, and accepting world. A portion of the sales from Mary J. Pride will go to Queer Lifespace, a non-profit in the Castro neighborhood of San Francisco that is dedicated to providing effective and affordable mental health and substance abuse services to those that cannot afford it.
Mary J. Pride was hopped with Cascade, Centennial, and Citra hops to create a uniquely American style IPA with a medium level of bitterness and herb character developed from a half bushel of organic rosemary.
Oakland United Beerworks — Pride Not Prejudice Saison (4.3% ABV)
In honor of LGBTQ Pride Month, the Jack London Brewing District presents Pride Not Prejudice, a saison made with lemongrass, white peppercorns and makrut lime leaves. A portion of the proceeds from its sale will be donated to the Oakland LGBTQ Community Center, which is dedicated to enhancing and sustaining the well-being of Oakland’s LGBTQ individuals, families and allies.
Alameda Island Brewing — Taste The Mango (6.5% ABV).
This year, Alameda Island Brewing did a very special collaboration brew with their friends Queers Makin’ Beers for pride. Taste The Mango is a hazy IPA with no kettle additions of hops, but a huge fermentation and dry hops of El Dorado and Mosaic, and mango.
Laughing Monk — Sister Madeline Hazy IPA (6.2% ABV) Sister Madeline is named for one of the Sister’s of Perpetual Indulgence, and is a hazy IPA hopped with Simcoe, Loral and Amarillo.
Laughing Monk — Brother Harvey Milk-Shake IPA (6.8% ABV)
Brother Harvey Milk-Shake IPA is an ode to one of San Francisco’s heroes and legendary LGBTQ+ advocates, Harvey Milk. The milk-shake IPA is brewed with mango and pineapple.
Harmonic Brewing — Let Me Pride IPA (6.6% ABV)
Let Me Pride is a light-bodied, low bitterness, summer IPA with notes of lime and tropical fruit that keeps the party going all month long.
About Jersey Restaurant
The state of New Jersey, or Jersey, is many things to a number of people. It is the Jersey Shore, the Boardwalk, salt water taffy, ferris wheel rides; it is The Garden State; home to the Jets, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, and much more. But to Mitchell and Steven Rosenthal, owners of Jersey Restaurant, on Second Street in San Francisco, it is more than that. It is Ferraro’s Pizza Parlor in Edison — dripping with not only great pizza, but old school family orientated hospitality. It is Chambersburg — the Italian neighborhood in Trenton, where the restaurant doors are open day and night, for anyone to stop in for a reprieve of hunger, thirst, or the rush of their day-to-day lives.
It is these sentiments that inspired the Rosenthal brothers to add a fourth restaurant to their SOMA empire (Jersey being the youngest, after Town Hall, Salt House, and Anchor & Hope). Can you get true East Coast pizza out here? Hell no. Is Jersey going to fill that void? Absolutely. But pizza is just a small part of the menu. Jersey offers extensive options for a full-on East Coast experience, with inspired West Coast elements. Avocado Toast, Meatball Crostini, and Lemon Pepper Rubbed Chicken Wings fill out the dozen-plus items on the starters menu. Salads with the Bay Area’s freshest produce include Grapefruit Salad, Arugula Salad, Chopped Salad, and more. Sandwiches such as the Italian Sub, Jersey Boys Meatball Sub, and Philly Steak Sandwich are offered for lunch. Pastas and entrees include Linguini & Clams, Chicken Riggies, Chicken Parmesan, and more. Jersey serves craft beer; sparkling wines; white, rose and red wines; wine cocktails; and non-alcoholic beverages.
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