FW Parabola has arrived. Not much of it to go around, so 1 bottle limit per customer. $15.99 each. Beer club members may reserve bottles BY PHONE ONLY. E-mail reservations will not be accepted. Bottles will be behind the counter, by request only.

Healthy Spirits: New Arrivals

1. Crispin Brownslane Cans

2. Crispin Landsdowne

3. Widmer Citra Blond

4. Firestone Wookey Jack

5. Rogue Mom's Hefeweizen

6. Flying Dog Underdog Atlantic Lager

7. Flying Dog Wildeman Farmhouse IPA

8. Green Flash+Founders Collaboration: Linchpin White IPA

9.Abbot Ale Pub Draught Cans

10.He'Brew Bittersweet Lenny's Double R.I.P.A.

11.Sir Perry Pear Cider Cans

12. Russian River Salvation

***Just in case you didn't see our previous post, the distributor messed up and didn't deliver our Firestone Walker Parabola allocation today. Barring any further nonsense, we should have it by tomorrow afternoon. There will be posts here, on Facebook, and on Twitter once it arrives.

cheers,

dave hauslein
beer manager
415-255-0610

Chocolate Hazelnut Chia Seed Pudding

I'm usually not hungry at all first thing in the morning, especially when I have to wake up at 5:00 a.m. for work. You'd think I'd be used to it after 15 years of waking up at the crack of dawn to get to work and getting up with the kids, but my body, more specifically my brain are still in snooze mode until around 10:00 a.m. 

So the last thing I want to do is add to my fragile state by trying to make breakfast for myself and 4 children.

In an effort to stay away from boxed cereal I have come up with a few breakfasts that require little or no effort.

This pudding falls into the zero effort category. It has just 3 ingredients and you simply chill it over night (or for at least 4 hours) and wake up to a chocolate pudding for breakfast! Nice huh? 

What are Chia Seeds?

Chia seeds come from the desert plant Salvia hispanica, a member of the mint family that grows abundantly in southern Mexico. 

Chia is very rich in omega-3 fatty acids, even more so than flax seeds.  And, unlike flax,  they do not have to be ground to make their nutrients available to the body.  Chia seeds also provide fiber (25 grams give you 6.9 grams of fiber) as well as calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, copper, iron, niacin, and zinc just to name a few.

When added to water and allowed to sit for 30 minutes, chia forms a gel. Researchers suggest that this reaction also takes place in the stomach, slowing the process by which digestive enzymes break down carbohydrates and convert them into sugar.

You can use any liquid you like for this pudding, some suggestions are:  almond milk, rice milk,  coconut milk and hemp milk. I have been staying away from soy milk because it is a GMO and some research suggests it may have harmful effects on your body and your hormones.



To make the pudding:

Mix together 2 cups chocolate hazelnut milk with 1/2 cup chia seeds. Drizzle in about 3 tablespoons honey, preferably local, Organic honey. Let sit at room temperature for 5-10 minutes then refrigerate over night.

You could probably eat this in as little as 1 hour after mixing buy I find that I like the consistency better after at least 6 hours.


You could definitely have this chocolate hazelnut pudding as a dessert but I suggest adding a bit more honey. Also, since chia seed is so high in protein I like this for a breakfast treat. The consistancy of this pudding is very similar to tapioca but without all the sugar.

sources:

Dr. Weil dot com

Healthy Spirits: Triple Voodoo Grand Cru

Healthy Spirits is the first store in San Francisco to receive the brand new first bottling of Triple Voodoo's Grand Cru. Come and get it! Keep an eye out for our exclusive bourbon barrel aged versions of Triple Voodoo's Inception Tripel and Grand Cru in the coming months.

cheers,

dave hauslein
beer manager
415-255-0610

Healthy Spirits: Grand Teton Snarling Badger Berliner Weisse

Now in stock.

Healthy Spirits: New Arrivals

1. Tilquin Gueuze 12oz and 25oz

2. Jester King Mad Meg

3. Jolly Pumpkin Weizen Bam

4. Jolly Pumpkin Oro De Calabaza

5. Jolly Pumpkin ESBam

6. Pretty Things X: 1838 version

7. Pretty Things X: 1945 version

***(these two beers were a collaboration with Ron Pattinson. Pretty Things brewed two old recipes from one London brewery to show how the mild style evolved over time. The first is a recipe from 1838. The second is from 1945. The brewer reccomends trying them back to back for comparison.)

8. Hanssens Oude Gueuze 12oz

9. Mikkeller Beer Geek Breakfast

10. Mikkeller Black Buffalo (ABV listed on label shown above is incorrect. Actually 19.3%ABV)

11. Mikkeller/Grassroots collaboration: Wheat is the New Hop (Wheat based IPA with brettanomyces)

12. Buxton Kinder Sunset (English Ruby Mild Ale)

13. Timothy Taylor Landlord

14. 8Wired Big Smoke Porter

15. Haandbryggeriet Dark Force Reserva

16. Haandbryggeriet Sweet & Sour

17. BFM Abbaye De Saint Bon Chien vintages 2007, 2009 and 2010

cheers,

dave hauslein
beer manager
415-255-0610

Healthy Spirits: New Arrivals

1. Dogfish Head Urkontinent

2. Anderson Valley Summer Solstice Cans

3. DAB Dortmunder Export Cans

4. Napa Smith Hopageddon Imperial IPA

5. Bruery White Oak

6. Einstok Pale Ale, Toasted Porter and Icelandic Wit 6 packs

7. Mission Dark Seas Imperial Stout

8. Erdinger Weizen

9. Abita Strawberry Harvest Lager

10 .Weihenstephaner hefe-weizen glasses

11. Erdinger hefe-weizen glasses

12. Flying Dog chalices

13. Delerium Tremens glassware

cheers,

dave hauslein

beer manager

415-255-0610