{"id":18493,"date":"2017-07-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metroactive.com\/features\/SV-Beer-Week-2017\/KraftBrew.html"},"modified":"2017-07-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T00:00:00","slug":"kraftbrew-summer-fest-caps-off-sv-beer-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metrosiliconvalley.com\/kraftbrew-summer-fest-caps-off-sv-beer-week\/","title":{"rendered":"KraftBrew Summer Fest Caps off SV Beer Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t\t\n

\n\nUntapped<\/a> |\nKick to Start<\/a> |\nThe Science of Sour Beer<\/a> |\nKraftBrew Summer Fest<\/a>\n<\/b>\n<\/p>\n \n\t \n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n

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Don’t let any hangovers dissuade from attending Beer Week’s grand finale: KraftBrew Summer Fest. Photo by Alex Stover<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n \n\n\t\n \n \n

More than 100 events take place for the Fifth Annual Silicon Valley Beer Week, but the culmination\u2014KraftBrew Summer Fest at Mexican Heritage Plaza\u2014should not be missed.<\/p>\n

Storied San Jose impresarios Chris Esparza and Omar Rodriguez team up to organize the annual gala, which features more than 25 American craft brews along with European and Mexican imports.<\/p>\n

Esparza, who owns marketing firm Giant Creative, has a long history of hosting musical and culinary events and running destination restaurants in downtown. Rodriguez, co-owner of Kooltura Marketing, has elevated the profile of local cultural institutions, including the Multicultural Arts Leadership Institute, National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, School of Arts and Culture, Cashion Cultural Legacy and Eastside Art & History.<\/p>\n

Esparza and Rodriguez channel their passion for local flavors and color into the KraftBrew Beer Festival, which boasts live entertainment and a host of local food and retail vendors.<\/p>\n

The festivities run from 1-6pm July 30 at Mexican Heritage Plaza, 1700 Alum Rock Ave., in San Jose. For information, visit Facebook.com\/kraftbrew.<\/p>\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So he took to the podium, looked over the dais, and ever-so-gently scolded San Jose’s mayor and council, which, in honoring him for winning the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, had gathered in the very building that erased his parents’ American dream. Nguyen and his brother, just children when the family fled Vietnam and assumed the burdensome mantle of refugees, were just as helpless as adults when their parents were forced to sell their business and see it demolished for a gleaming $343 million City Hall tower and rotunda. Whatever is left of the New Saigon Market lies fossilized at a depth reserved for milk-carton mobsters and earthworms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14575,"featured_media":18494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[1895],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n