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    October 11, 2012

    Cafe Demitasse and Trystero Coffee Launch Demitasse Roasting

    With coffee shops opening up in Los Angeles faster than the newest gastropub can fry its Brussels sprouts, it was only a matter of time before a few local coffee professionals decided to go beyond the brew and see about roasting their own coffee. Such is the case with Cafe Demitasse's Bobak Roshan, ... More >>

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    October 9, 2012

    Win Free Beer for a Year

    Want to win free craft beer for a year? So do we! LetsPour, which leads the web in craft beer sales, has a current promotion if you sign up for its website. On Nov. 5th they will announce the lucky registrant who will receive six bottles of craft beer (including shipping) every month for a year, bec ... More >>

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    October 8, 2012

    Your Oktoberfest Round-Up: Beer, Brats, Pretzels More Beer

    L.A. Oktoberfest -- October 20-21: Bust out the lederhosen for this one, because it's likely to get a little crazy. This two-day festival at the Vanguard in Hollywood sounds like a scene from the movie Beerfest: busty Bavarian babes, beer song sing-a-longs, roving accordion players, stein-holding co ... More >>

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    October 2, 2012

    Q & A With Haven Brewing's Dave Larsen: L.A. Beer Week, New Zealand Hops Stone's First Local Collaboration

    The fourth annual Los Angeles Beer Week might have officially ended with Sunday's festival at Union Station, but there's still one more special LABW brew that has yet to be released. Too bad it's not even ready to drink yet. That's because early in the morning on Thursday, Sept. 20 -- while many e ... More >>

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    September 26, 2012

    Serious Drinking: Peel Me A Grape

    Across the state, harvest is upon us. California winemakers either are readying their crush pads for what appears to be a fairly large crop, or are out among the vine rows, tasting fruit, rolling it around on their tongues or between their fingers to determine if it's ready to pick. Last week I was ... More >>

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    September 24, 2012

    L.A. Beer Week Event Picks: Ballast Point, Bacon and Beer, Beer Floats 'Beer University'

    In the last four days, LA Beer Week has brought a Stone Brewing takeover to Old Town Pasadena, run brewery tours to every corner of the county and treated drinkers at beer bars citywide to rare selections from Dogfish Head, Kern River and Russian River breweries. But now that we've survived opening ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2012

    Celebrate International Grenache Day: Party in Paso #GrenacheDay!

    You'll miss no work, and the kids will still head off to school. There'll be no moment of silence, nor office parties, nor gifts exchanged. Nonetheless today, Sept. 21, is a holiday. It's Grenache Day, fool -- that one day of the year on which highly privileged people all over the world who happe ... More >>

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    September 21, 2012

    Hope for Zinfandel: 1999 Ridge Vineyards Lytton Springs

    Most American Zinfandels fall into two categories, explained to me recently by Doug Nalle, a Dry Creek Valley winemaker and a bit of a Zin Master in his own right. "There's BHT and AHT," he says: "Before Helen Turley, and after Helen Turley." Turley is the American winemaker who famously amped up ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2012

    L.A. Beer Week: More Local Breweries Bring Shuttles and Tours

    There are many ways in which the fourth annual Los Angeles Beer Week, which began last night, represents a major milestone in the city's craft beer scene. In addition to the dizzying number of events this year (the official calendar lists at least 20 separate events happening each day through next ... More >>

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    September 19, 2012

    Project 12: Los Angeles Beer Among Winners in Budweiser's ZIP Code Beer Series

    Back in June, Anheuser-Busch announced "Project 12", described thusly: "Twelve Anheuser-Busch brewmasters at Budweiser's 12 geographically dispersed breweries worked together to create their own "tribute" beers to fit the Budweiser brand's reputation for quality and consistency." The idea was that o ... More >>

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    September 12, 2012

    Serious Drinking: My Sherry Amor

    As a wine, as a beverage, even, fino sherry seems like it comes from a place that time forgot. The lightest and driest of all sherries, it's as if that strange, inimitable beverage from a hot corner of Spain has been created miles from any other wine or spirit, bred in isolation until it bears no re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 6, 2012

    Pepsi Is Tweaking Its Diet Soda Formula

    PepsiCo Inc. is trying out new artificial sweeteners that would let its diet soda keep its sweet taste for a longer period of time, The Washington Post reports. The current sweetener used in Diet Pepsi -- aspartame -- loses its potency faster than high fructose corn syrup, the sweetener that's used ... More >>

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    September 6, 2012

    Serious Drinking: Sherry Marcona Almonds

    There are many perfect food pairings in the world -- Sauternes and foie gras, Muscadet and oysters, Champagne and potato chips, Barolo and truffled anything -- but no pairing in the world is so perfectly simple as the pairing of Marcona almonds and fino sherry. These are the rich, flavorful almond ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 4, 2012

    Q & A With Australian Brewery Mountain Goat Beer: Surfboards as Collateral The Influence of American Craft Beer

    Australia doesn't just produce enviable beer commercials, as we learned last week, they produce beer equally worthy of our interest. One such brewery, Mountain Goat Beer of Melbourne, Australia, is kicking off a launch party for extended distribution at Rock & Brews in El Segundo tonight, and Congre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2012

    Q & A With Paige Reilly of Mohawk Bend: Mohawk Bend's Role in L.A. Craft Beer, Back to School Beer Classes Paying It Forward

    When someone's business card says "Beer Champion," it's hard to know what to expect. But Paige Reilly -- who is in charge of keg ordering, education and events at Mohawk Bend, Tony's Darts Away and the Golden Road Brewpub -- just might define the term by her fast-talking love of beer and passion to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 28, 2012

    Distilling On Demand: The American Distilling Institute's Books A New Brandy How-To Book From One Of California's Top Distillers

    Interested in learning Modern Moonshine Techniques, taking a nationwide tour of 99 Pot Stills, brushing up on a Short History of the Art of Distillation? You really should take a look at The American Distilling Institute's publications. One caveat: Unlike home brewing and winemaking, federal law pro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2012

    4 Coffee Classes Where You Can Learn How to Make (Better) Coffee at Home

    If we've learned anything from all the specialty coffee shops in the city -- other than what, exactly, constitutes barista chic -- it's that we can pick up a bag of great beans and easily figure out how to make our own great good cup of coffee at home. But that probably will be just the beginning: ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2012

    Drink This Now: Rum Diary at The Hungry Cat

    Outside of a gin and tonic, the piña colada was the first mixed drink I ever had. I was 14 and in Fiji with my father. I was moving to America with my mother; he was staying in Australia. We took a vacation together as a farewell of sorts. I don't remember much about what we talked about or where w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 22, 2012

    5 Things I Learned About Beer at the 3rd Annual L.A. Craft Beer Crawl

    5. Wandering downtown LA streets in the mid-afternoon sun, giving off a hoppy scent, carrying a small pilsner glass still sudsy from the last visit, mildly lost, mildly dazed, is totally normal on the Saturday of L.A. Craft Beer Crawl. Never mind the stink-eye from the cops, never mind the regal bea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2012

    Nickelback's Coffee Music Video: Jason Alexander as a Royal/T Barista

    We're not sure exactly what to make of Nickelback's music video for "Trying Not To Love You," which stars Seinfeld actor Jason Alexander as a bumbling barista trying to win over former Baywatch babe Brooke Burns with intricate foam art and "half-caff soy lattés." Set at the recently closed Royal/T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2012

    The L.A. Craft Beer Crawl: Rare Beers, A Speakeasy A Slideshow

    With a steep ticket price for a relatively new event, there was a knot of anticipation about whether this year's L.A. Craft Beer Crawl would prove worth its malt. By every measure, it most certainly was. On Saturday, Aug. 18, two thousand eager beer nerds and bar regulars received their wristbands ... More >>

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    August 17, 2012

    The Stonehaus: Coffeehouse and Winery Under Construction in Westlake Village

    Did your plans for a summer vacation in Europe not pan out? Well, you can console yourself this fall by heading north on the 101 to Westlake Village. That's where you'll find The Stonehaus, a combo coffeehouse and winery with a European flair, which is now under construction on the grounds of the We ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2012

    Wine Whine: What Does "Not Too Expensive" Mean To You? How About To Your Sommelier?

    Last week I had a frustrating service experience with a sommelier at one of L.A.'s most highly regarded restaurants. It's something that's happened to me before, and has to do with what the definition of "not too expensive" means to different people.

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    August 14, 2012

    Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival: The Wine Part of the Equation

    The second annual Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival concluded Sunday, a slickly produced, three-day debauch mostly held in and around the capacious digs of L.A. Live and its Marriott property -- though neither conference room nor rooftop exhibition tent could adequately contain the assemblage of whit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2012

    Now Open: Tierra Mia Coffee Serving Specialty Coffee Horchata Frappes in Downtown

    Compared to its other locations scattered throughout the South Bay, Tierra Mia's new Downtown's location at the base of the Bartlett Building at 7th and Spring Streets is small. "Yeah, this is Downtown-sized," owner Ulysses Romero says, noting that a few of Tierra Mia's comparatively spacious cafes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2012

    The International Pinot Noir Celebration: 300 Wines, 75 Producers, 700 Participants A Movie

    While most of the city's denizens of drink were in NOLA celebrating Cocktail Tales and learning indelible lessons on what to drink when, and where, and in what century, I was in Oregon's Willamette Valley at the International Pinot Noir Celebration, an annual event now 26 years strong which does as ... More >>

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    July 30, 2012

    Q & A With Shafer Vineyards' Elias Fernandez: Summer Wines, Cycling The Upside of High School Band Practice

    Elias Fernandez has been the winemaker at Shafer Vineyards in Napa for 28 years -- a lifetime in winemaking terms. While some winemakers hop from winery to winery over their careers, Fernandez says he prefers "the community, the quality" of working for the same vineyard that snatched him fresh out o ... More >>

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    July 26, 2012

    The Summer of Riesling: Los Angeles Edition

    This year marks the fourth annual Summer of Riesling in the U.S., a hostage program established in 2008 by "Acid Overlord" Paul Grieco of the restaurant Terroir in New York, in which white wine by-the-glass programs are hijacked by what most sommeliers and wine professional think of as the most thri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2012

    Shades of Rosé

    For years, wine writers have been haranguing their readership to drink more rosé, a category that plainly couldn't catch a break either among macho types who opined that pink wine was too, well, pink, or the rest of the wine-drinking public, who assumed that, since the wine was the color of white z ... More >>

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    July 16, 2012

    Q & A with Megan Lee of AU 79: Tea Leaves, Language Barriers Changing Demographics

    Megan Lee comes from a long line of tea experts. Her grandfather was the founder of Ten Ren Tea, Taiwan's largest tea chain, with locations in seven countries including the United States. But despite being a shareholder in the Ten Ren empire, Lee's father had a different vision for the company and b ... More >>

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    July 9, 2012

    Natural Wine: An Explanation Where to Find It

    What's in a glass of wine? The answer might be surprising. Wine is basically spoiled grape juice. (Whoever first ingested it millennia ago: hat tip.) But these days wine's ingredients can also contain a laundry list of adds in's: sulfur dioxide, egg whites, oak chips, water and numerous chemical ad ... More >>

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    July 3, 2012

    Coffee Might Help Prevent Skin Cancer

    Any bleary-eyed 9-to-5er can vouch for coffee's miraculous qualities. But while java is keeping your face from slamming into your keyboard, it also might be protecting you from sun cancer (should you have the opportunity to step outside). A recent study has found that people who drink three or more ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2012

    Q & A with Henry and Adriana Nguyen of Monkish Brewing Co.: Opening a Brewery in L.A., Feminist Beer Gambling in Vegas

    Monkish Brewing Co. feels like the best kept beer secret of the South Bay. Located in a modest business park along Western Avenue in Torrance, you won't find the usual bells and whistles that alert you to the presence of fine, craft beer: The beer is speaking for itself. Open just over three months, ... More >>

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    June 25, 2012

    L.A. Craft Beer Crawl Returns

    If you're looking to experience what some of L.A.'s best breweries have to offer in one whirlwind night, make sure to mark your calendar for the third annual Los Angeles Craft Beer on Saturday, Aug. 18. "Beer Chicks" Hallie Beaune and Christina Perozzi, along with 213 Nightlife proprietor Cedd Moses ... More >>

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    June 22, 2012

    What's Up With All the Dapper Baristas?

    In a city known for its casual dress, one wearing suspenders and a tie can stick out like a sore (but dapper!) thumb. Especially if that person is not, say, a lawyer or an actor on their way to a audition to play Butler #1 but instead the person behind the counter at a coffee shop. The nicely-dress ... More >>

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    June 18, 2012

    Cognoscenti Coffee Pops Up at the Normandie Hotel

    In the middle of the lobby of the Hotel Normandie in Koreatown is a piano. And if you are the type of person who considers an unplayed piano as tragic as an unread copy of The Master and Margarita and thus sit down to tickle the ivories, maybe, just maybe, you will be rewarded with a cup of coffee ... More >>

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    June 12, 2012

    Budweiser Magnum Soon to be the Costliest Beer in India

    Last week Anheuser-Busch InBev announced that the new Budweiser Magnum will become the highest priced super-premium beer in India, Economic Times reports. The strong, American-style lager will debut in a 650 ml bottle (22 oz. bomber) for 150 rupees. Is that a wildly high price? While 150 Rs comes in ... More >>

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    June 8, 2012

    Top 5 Iced Teas to Make at Home

    Food and drinks become associated with many things, one of which can be the sensation of sun hitting bare skin -- and the accompanying urge to grab a jug and a couple of tea bags. Which is maybe the reason why June has been designated as National Iced Tea Month. Why not. While really good iced c ... More >>

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    June 6, 2012

    Grand Opening Party for Café Dulce's Downtown Pop-Up Tonight

    Café Dulce has been serving fine coffee and pastries to the Little Tokyo community for a little more than a year now, and, starting tonight, also will have a presence in the South Park neighborhood of Downtown: The shop will launch an indefinite pop-up coffee bar in an empty converted warehouse spa ... More >>

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    June 1, 2012

    Rhone Rangers Wine Tasting at Vibiana This Sunday

    Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and Pinot Noir are the beloved trinity of most wine drinkers. There are many more varietals out there and this Sunday's (June 3) fifth annual Rhone Rangers Tasting at Vibiana in downtown Los Angeles showcases wines grown from 22 American Rhone grape varietals. Chief a ... More >>

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    May 31, 2012

    5 Dog-Friendly Winery Tasting Rooms

    A love for wine and dogs can co-exist. People take their pets everywhere these days--dining and drinking out, no exception. Although Los Angeles has approved pets on restaurant patios (per the recent Squid Ink post), rules prohibit them inside. Nor are they welcome at bars or in the tasting rooms at ... More >>

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    May 31, 2012

    New York City Mayor Proposes Ban on Large Sodas

    As we count down the days remaining to enjoy foie gras in California, we should also count our blessings that we do not live in New York City, which has just proposed a ban of large-size sodas. (Or maybe we shouldn't; maybe it is good idea.) The far-reaching ban would prohibit the sale of large soda ... More >>

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    May 25, 2012

    8 Craft Beer Bars in the San Fernando Valley Happy Hour Specials

    The glorious San Fernando Valley. Spatially vast, heavily populated, and wildly lacking in proper places to drink. Or so we thought. Today, it's time to put your ignorance to bed and minimize the attitude long enough to see the truth -- that from Burbank to Agoura Hills you can always find a decent ... More >>

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    May 17, 2012

    Coffee Drinkers May Outlive Us All: Thank You, Malcolm Gladwell The AARP

    Anyone who habitually reads The New Yorker along with their equally habitual morning cup of joe will remember with great fondness Malcolm Gladwell's 2001 story "Java Man," in which Gladwell considered "how caffeine created the modern world." Now comes yet more evidence that Sweden's King Gustav III ... More >>

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    May 15, 2012

    10 California Summer Wine Events

    Summer is a wine-drinking marathon in California, and up and down the coast, each weekend brings pleasant opportunities to imbibe outside. The diversity of events reflects the state's varied wine-growing regions. Those on hotel grounds come with a room night package -- a smart way to go. Because i ... More >>

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    May 8, 2012

    Wine Cellar: Master Sommelier Richard Betts on "Feral" Chardonnay

    We've long been keen on winemaker Greg La Follette's Pinot Noir style, his bagpipe back story and the Friday night Bingo shirts he sports at wine tasting events. He's also weathered the wine business long enough that he doesn't worry about telling the whole wine truth, and nothing but the truth (so ... More >>

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    May 3, 2012

    Flour Tea: A New Tea Shop in Pasadena

    If Flour Tea seems like a hybrid of better Taiwanese tea joints and bakeries around San Gabriel Valley, it has everything to do with co-owners (and cousins) Nancy Ou and Johnson Wang whose collective résumé reads like a tea industry road map. Sitting on the corner of Cordova and Arroyo Parkway, ... More >>

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    May 1, 2012

    Everson Royce: Silverlake Wine's Pasadena Spinoff Now Open

    Opened last Saturday, Old Town Pasadena's Everson Royce is not quite a sequel to Silverlake Wine. Think character spinoff. Two out of three Silverlake Wine owners are involved; approximately 25% of the same small-production wine brands are stocked. Potential customers are greeted immediately at the ... More >>

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    April 23, 2012

    6 Things We Bet You Didn't Know About The Boba Truck New Oxnard Store Location

    Since it's launch in 2010, The Boba Truck has become a serious contender in the Southern California bubble tea scene. Patrons know it for its unique flavors like Fuji Apple Green Tea and Rose Oolong Tea -- but there's actually much more behind the four-wheeled tea spewing machine. Turn the page for ... More >>

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    April 23, 2012

    Katie Carguilo Wins U.S. Barista Championship; Intelligentsia's Charles Babinski Places Second

    Over the weekend, Katie Carguilo took the champion title at the annual U.S.B.C. event -- that would be the United States Barista Championship and not the United States Bowling Congress (though that too apparently had everyone on pins and needles this weekend). Hosted by the Specialty Coffee Associa ... More >>

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