Saturday, July 19, 2008
Food for thirst
clipped from http://www.mercurynews.com/lifestyle/ci_9895864
Hometown brew: The beer that grew up with Silicon Valley
By William Brand
for the Mercury News
for the Mercury News
Dan Gordon pushed a lever that opens a tiny, clear plastic line extending from a gigantic fermenter, two stories high, at the Gordon Biersch brewery in San Jose and drew off a few ounces of amber beer into two glasses.
Now there are 28 Gordon Biersch brewery-restaurants across the United States and one in Taiwan, (probably as famous for their garlic fries as their beer) bearing the founders' names even if the two no longer own them.
A mutual friend introduced the men in 1987.
The San Jose-born Gordon had just graduated from the prestigious, five-year brewing engineering program at the
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food wine,
hot drinks,
liquor,
silicon valley,
thirst
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