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A new Bay Area brewery is making kimchi sours and other Korea-inspired beers - and doing it well
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Youngwon Lee, owner of Dokkaebier, with one of his new beer creations at Del Cielo Brewing Co. in Martinez.DokkaebierShow MoreShow Less
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Youngwon Lee worked as a wine and spirits importer in Korea before getting into brewing.DokkaebierShow MoreShow Less
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Youngwon Lee makes his Dokkaebier beers at different Bay Area breweries including Del Cielo in Martinez.DokkaebierShow MoreShow Less
Youngwon Lee has brewed beers with Szechuan peppercorns, gochugaru chiles, omija berries and lemongrass. He’s made sour beer using the bacterial culture from kimchi. Lee’s latest experiment involved brewing with oyster sauce, though he ultimately had to dump it down the drain. “We used too much. It came out way too salty,” he says.
Robert Hager We are sad to report that Robert Bob Hager a U.S. Army veteran who detailed his journey from homeless to housed for the
Journal has taken his last walk. Bob died of a heart attack July 24, 2020, alone but surrounded by four walls in his own home, the
Journal has learned. He was 63. In recent years, Bob could be found walking through Eureka at almost any time of day, a U.S. Army hat barely containing his wild spray of gray hair and a coffee cup in hand, chatting up anyone in his path. He was a poet, a writer, a baritone, an artist and a husband. It was the last one that he felt defined him, and his devotion to Kathleen, Kat as he called her, was obvious, both through their 17 years of marriage in which they were inseparable and after her death, when, heartbroken, Bob worked tirelessly to cobble together the funds and move the necessary Veterans Affairs bureaucracy to lay his love to rest in Ocean View Cemetery.
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