Former collaborators, turned rivals, turned collaborators again to produce Allies Win the War, a collaboration beer by Shaun O’Sullivan and Nico Freccia of 21^st Amendment Brewery in San Francisco and  Jamie Floyd of Ninkasi  Brewing Co in Eugene, Oregon.

The name, O’Sullivan elaborates, is “a play on the idea of rivals coming together for the greater good of the world.”

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The San Francisco Brewers Guild hosts its 8th Annual Brews on the Bay festival on Saturday, September 10th, 2011, on the S.S. Jeremiah O’Brien, (one of the last remaining Liberty Ships)  at Pier 45 on the San Francisco Bay. The festival is a fundraiser for the National Liberty Ship Memorial.

More than fifty beers will be poured, all brewed in San Francisco, including special releases.

The festival runs from noon to 5 PM. Ticket price for this one-day-only event is $45; tickets are available by advance online sales only through www.sfbrewersguild.org.

The San Francisco Brewers Guild is comprised of San Francisco’s eight breweries: 21st Amendment Brewery, Anchor Brewing Company, Beach Chalet Brewery & Restaurant, Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant, Magnolia Pub & Brewery, Social Kitchen & Brewery, Speakeasy Ales & Lagers, and ThirstyBear Brewing Company.

21st Amendment Brewery’s newest seasonal, Bitter American is an extra pale ale, available now through March. Bitter American is available in cans and on draft starting this week at quality bars and stores.

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Shaun O’Sullivan of 21st Amendment Brewery of San Francisco has made a little wager with Frist Rahr of Rahr & Sons Brewing of Arlington,Texas that when the Giants win the World Series, Fritz will be donning a Giants jersey and taking a photo drinking of himself drinking a 21st Amendment beer in front of the Rangers home stadium at Arlington Field.

In the highly unlikely off-chance that the Rangers win, Shaun will be wearing a Rangers shirt in front of AT&T park while drinking a Rahr & Sons beer.
But that ain’t gonna happen.