FILE: San Francisco Muni buses sit parked at an SF Municipal Railway yard near Geary Boulevard.

In 1998, San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown enabled New Year’s Eve partygoers to get home safely by making Muni free from 8 p.m. to 3 a.m. In that same vein, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is playing designated driver again, from Feb. 21 to March 2, as it sponsors the first Muni-sanctioned beer crawl and Muni-inspired beer for SF Beer Week.

The SFMTA Hop On Muni Beer Crawl is a hyper-local collaboration between the transit agency, Standard Deviant Brewing, which recently offered loyalty members $1 beers for life, and San Francisco City Football Club, a supporter-owned soccer club. Together, the three groups are sponsoring a beer crawl where patrons can print out a game card, ride Muni across four different routes to buy Standard Deviant’s special Muni IPA at select bars, and collect stickers at each bar for the chance to win different prizes on March 2.

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It’s arguably the safest and cheapest way to do a bar crawl, according to Standard Deviant co-owner Mark DeVito.

“You don’t have to get a party bus; you don’t have to take Ubers everywhere; it doesn’t cost you much money,” DeVito told SFGATE. “You just go ride it. To me, it’s the best designated driver.”

The three groups already........

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