How tiny Alpha Acid Brewing makes the Peninsula’s most un-boring beers

Kyle Bozicevic can’t stop trying to brew something we’ve never tasted before. Lucky us. From left: Recent Alpha Acid can releases—their popular sour, Passion Fruit Belmonter, and Brosaic double IPA; the very slickly-named 650 IPA. (Images via the Alpha Acid Instagram account) Kyle Bozicevic’s beer career started with a minor legal hurdle. Enrolled at Cabrillo College near Santa Cruz and not yet 21, Bozicevic (pronounced Boz-eh-vick) had to endure the indignity of asking ...

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Meet the devoted, diverse, slightly crazy coffee roasters of Silicon Valley

Tiny local roasters are making the SF Peninsula’s coffee scene a little more interesting and a lot more fun. Hill of Beans: Indianpeaberry green coffee beans (pre-roasted) on the left, and roasted Bali Vintage beans on the right, at Emerald Hills Cafe & Roastery. (Photo by Michelle Le) Like a lot of other Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, Vikram Shirvastava and Rekha Shivapa’s founder story began at their shared day job — he in hardware, she in software — centered ...

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‘We got to build something I’m very proud of’: Saying goodbye to Palo Alto’s Lure+Till

Lure+Till brunch via IG: pcbeller Silicon Valley restaurants come and go (high rents, scarce labor, fickle customers), so it doesn’t pay to get too attached. But Lure+Till managed something surprising for Palo Alto: to simultaneously be a comfortable hangout and a place to be seen. The restaurant will close January 2 and for fans who knew its secret, we need to take a moment to say farewell. Lure+Till opened with, and inside, the ...

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