Obviously Team SFBay- approved: Brewtruc
The next SFBay company field trip might need to include a takeover of Brewtruc, The City's first mobile bar.
The next SFBay company field trip might need to include a takeover of Brewtruc, The City's first mobile bar.
Not that this is going to come to any great shock to any of you out there in Readerville, but Team SFBay is a full-on supporter of the food truck wonderland that is San Francisco.
And how can you NOT be a fan when there’s a whole parking lot in SoMa devoted to delicious dishes sold out the window of a dilapidated RV?!
So, of course, our next company field trip might have to include a serious take-over of Brewtruc, the first mobile bar in the City By the Bay.
Are you feeling that pinch in your liver yet? You should be.
The beer-battered, Frankenstein-ian creation is the work of food truck vet Hugh Schick. Taking the base of his previous food truck–aptly called Le Truc–and transforming it into a mobile bar was no easy feat.
Schick tells Gizmodo.com in great detail how he gutted a 1997 school bus and used the lightest-weight materials possible to create his brew-hub-on wheels. The Brewtruc — which looks a little like the Delta parade float at the end of Animal House — makes its way around the “food truck circuit,” carrying up to 26 sight-seers and serving 93 gallons of booze.
But what might be more impressive is how this demonic-looking black bus is able to keep 12 operating taps on wheels while maintaining a working license.
Especially when considering that I just wrote an article the other day about residents in the Mission District fighting to keep restrictions in place on alcohol licenses.
As Schick tells Gizmodo:
“We cannot sell beer at all per se, but we can include it as a fringe benefit of taking a ride.”
Since the bus is licensed as a limo, in accordance with the Public Utilities Commission, Brewtruc is not in violation of the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control regulations.
All this ride is missing is a couple dozen SFBay stickers along its bumper.
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