May 2012 marks 19 years of the Suppenküche and the end of the 13th b’ak’tun of the forth world in the Mayan long count calendar cycle. We celebrate our birthday and the coming of a new era on Thursday May 17th starting at 5:00pm … Cosmic Evolution is the theme for the costume party, come dressed in the spirit of the next world – a golden age.
Beer Week (Bierwoche) is back in town, bringing to the Suppenküche scarce drafts and unique bottles, as well as the …
Schneider and Suppenküche – Weisse Bier paring menu
Wednesday February 15th.
… This will include a very limited new offering from Schneider (on tap):
Nelson Sauvin (brewed with Belgian yeast and New Zealand hops). Plus special Schneider Bier tastings and gifts from the brewery at Biergarten on the 15th.
Bierwoche at the Suppenküche also brings …
on draft:
Kübelbier (an oak barrel matured Austrian Zwickelbier)
Porticus (a four times ‘Saphir’ hoped Leipziger Doppel Porter, or ‘German Imperial Blackbeer’ from Bayrischer Bahnhof)
Firkin (a Bavarian Festbier served from a 20L gravity barrel … We will have 2 tappings, Saturday 2/11 and Saturday 2/18)
in bottles:
Schlenkerla Helles (a superb golden lager brewed without smoked malt on the same equipment as the brewery‘s famous Rauschbier)
Leipziger Gose (an Unfiltered, Unpasteurized, Bottle-Conditioned sour wheat, brewed in Germany since 1000AD with coriander and sea salt)
Berliner Style Weisse (a take on the standard Berliner Weisse with the addition of a wild yeast and a 2 month bottle conditioning period. Sour!)
Our Biergarten is open in Hayes Valley at 424 Octavia, between Fell and Linden. Current “winter” hours* are 2pm – 8pm, Wednesday through Sunday.
*Biergarten will not be open Christmas day.
UPDATE: Saturday (the 1st of October) is officially the last day of Oktoberfest 2011, so we are throwing another party to mark the day! We will be tapping a special fest keg at 1pm and have a traditional Oktoberfest menu till 5pm, with the full Suppenküche menu after that. If you can’t make the party, don’t worry, we will still be pouring the best Oktoberfest Biers all the way through Halloween and beyond.
Saturday September 17th marked the official start of this years Oktoberfest. We kicked it off with Bier specials, roast ckickens, pork kunckles, new T- shirts, giant pretzels and more …
It is time again for the biggest bike race on the planet … Le Tour De France. To honor this epic event we have, once again, displayed our peloton of swallows and cycling butterflies (a vignette for each of the 4 leaders jerseys). Click on the graphic above to see.
Our 18 year anniversary “Super Hero” party. Click on the image above for some photos of the celebration.
To help celebrate our 18 years as a restaurant Suppenküche hosted a Hayes Valley Neighborhood Association benefit ham and eggs breakfast. Why “Fire Breakfast”?: As the story goes the great fire that engulfed San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake was started by accident in Hayes Valley, the result of cooking ham and eggs with a damaged chimney. This time we cooked and ate outside. Thank you to everyone that helped to make it happen.
We now must say goodbye to our kegs of Oak-wood smoked doppelbock: Aecht Schlenkerla (Oak Smoke) Rauchbier! See you next year … delicious! But remember, some fantastic neue Maibocks are here and more are just around the corner.
