Local Beer Crowned Best In The World!

Thursday, May 17, 2012 PHOTOS: Local Beer Crowned Best In The World The Bay Area has a plethora of brewing companies churning out some of the best beers in the country, but one lucky beer was given top honors when Beer Advocate deemed it the best in the world. Russian River Brewing Company's Pliny the Younger sends beer lovers to bars like bees to honey, all because it currently holds the top spot at the user-drive review site. 'COMPLETELY BROKEN DOWN' 'Best Restaurant' Award Winner Talks Dining In San Francisco Will The A's Actually Leave Oakland? MIRACLE: San Jose Man Found Alive After A Week Without Food Or Water Pacific Turtle Species In Grave Danger BLOG POSTS Claire Tomkins: California Is Leading: Will the Nation Follow? America needs to lead. We use the most energy. We use the most resources. And we generate more trash than anyone else on the planet. It's not that we don't know how to do it. We do already. Here in California. William Bradley: A Bucket of Woe: Jerry Brown's Unsurprisingly Unhappy Budget Does the air of shock around the latest in California's chronic budget crisis count as a failure of Gov. Brown's communications strategy? Or as a success? A bad shock may be what the electoral doctor ordered for Brown's November revenue initiative. Ty Alper: Since When Don't We Put a Price Tag on Justice? Faced with unassailable evidence that the death penalty in California costs hundreds of millions of dollars per year, supporters tend to respond with what is intended to be a conversation stopper: "You can't put a price tag on justice." Franky Carrillo: Innocent & Executed: It Could Have Been Me I was wrongfully convicted when I was 16 years old and served 20 years in prison before proving my innocence. That mistake took two decades from me, but it took Carlos DeLuna's life. George Heymont: To Sleep, Perchance to Dream During the recent San Francisco International Film Festival, two animated shorts stood so far above the others in terms of imagination, structure, and artistic brilliance that I was left speechless by their cinematic beauty.

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