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    May 14, 2012

    Congregation Ale House: A Sip At The Gastropub's New Pasadena Altar

    Much as we are Beer Church believers, our drive-by impression of Congregation Ale House's latest branch across from Pasadena's Central Park was hardly revelatory. The freestanding building is boxy and rather shiny, a little too carefully designed in that chain restaurant or mega-church sort of way. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2012

    Miller Lite's New Punch-Top Can: A New Gimmick for Your Useless Gadgets

    MillerCoors is about to change your Miller Lite drinking experience. Are you kept up at night by the difficulties of enjoying that great, less filling taste so feverishly that you just can't unleash it from the can fast enough? Do you pine for a time when drinking your beer from the can will be just ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2012

    Thanks for Drinking: Craft Beer Sales Rise Despite Sluggish Overall Market

    The Brewers Association has just released this year's numbers on U.S. beer sales. If you prefer Manifesto Eagle Rock Wit to Blue Moon (which is owned by MillerCoors) the news is good. Beer sales slowed overall, slipping 1.3% by volume. Within the craft beer industry numbers continued to rise with a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2012

    The Pub at Golden Road Brewery: Liquid Gold

    When the Union Pacific blows past the Pub at Golden Road Brewing, screaming its horn and rattling the building, the new customers look up, startled, midsip: Maybe Megatron has assembled himself out of all the propane and machinery in the neighboring industrial yards. The regulars, meanwhile, simply ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    March 29, 2012

    L.A.'s Craft Beer Revolution Has Golden State's Jason Bernstein Raising His Pint Glass

    When the Union Pacific blows past the Pub at Golden Road Brewing, screaming its horn and rattling the building, the new customers look up, startled, midsip: Maybe Megatron has assembled himself out of all the propane and machinery in the neighboring industrial yards. The regulars, meanwhile, simply ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2012

    Jason Bernstein on Craft Beer: Pliny the Younger, Dark Lord Extreme Beer Mania

    Want a beer right now? More specifically, want a pint of some terribly cool ale or rare craft beer brewed by a solitary guy in an undisclosed location and sold for only two days a year? If that, or something like that, sounds like your idea of a good time, then you should read today's feature food s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2012

    Coors to Launch Iced Tea-flavored Beer

    Flavored iced tea has been all the rage for a while now (passionfruit-acai-goji berry comes to mind). So the brilliant minds at Coors thought: Why not iced tea-flavored BEER? Last week, Golden, Colo.-based Molson Coors Brewing Co. announced it will launch Coors Light Iced T in Canada next month ahea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2012

    Golden Road Brewing Introduces Craft Beer Cans to L.A. County

    Local canned craft beer will hit L.A.'s supermarket shelves for the first time later this week, and we have Tony Yanow and Meg Gill to thank for it. Gill, the president and co-founder of Golden Road Brewing in Atwater Village, knows a thing or two about canned beer. In 2007, after graduating from ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2011

    Top Hops: Best 5 New Craft Beer Bars of 2011

    Over the past few years, sales of mass-produced beer (Bud, Miller, Coors and the like) are down along with housing, investments and other barometers of economic growth. Guess what is not down? Craft breweries. Craft beer bars. Craft beer sales. According to the Brewers Association, which represents ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2011

    Far Bar in Little Tokyo: 2011 Most Improved Craft Beer Bar in L.A.

    Far Bar Little TokyoSample glasses of craft beer​In a sign of the craft beer times, Far Bar opened in 2006 as a cocktail bar. Over the ensuing five years, it has morphed into a beer and cocktails bar and, in 2011, thanks to the commitment of co-owners Don Tahara and Mike Gin along with manage ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2011

    Q & A with David Larsen of Haven Gastropub Brewery: Beer Geeks in Pasadena, Adventures in Dry Pork Your Brewmaster as Ukekele Player

    Orange County's Haven Gastropub has a reputation for rather maniacally obtaining their mercurial selection of craft brews. On one occasion, Beverage Director Wil Dee took a Smokey and the Bandit-style run up to San Francisco to bootleg a vanload from 21st Amendment Brewery, which has no wholesale d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2011

    MMMHop: Hanson Make an IPA

    The chart-topping reign of the three Hanson brothers with flowing blond locks was regrettably (for some) short-lived, and odds are you haven't had much of them in your life lately. But whether you remember their late '90s smash MMMBop as the brain-burrowing scourge of that decade or as a jam "remar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2011

    Interactive Sausage Rare Beer at The Yard

    jamesjustinSausages await consumption ​ If you've been to Hot Doug's in Chicago, then you already know the adage. "There are no two finer words in the English language than 'encased meats', my friend." True. And if there's anything in this world that could possibly trump a fresh, handmade saus ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2011

    Q & A With Far Bar's Jimmy Smith: Little Tokyo's Craft Beer Scene, How Beer Brings People Together Little Tokyo's Beer Week Coming Out Party

    Far BarJapanese craft beers available at Little Tokyo's Far Bar ​For decades, Little Tokyo has been a destination for its history, food and art venues alike. But in the last year, Little Tokyo has put itself on the radar for another, more unlikely offering--craft beer. And as the second half o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2011

    SoCal's 8 Best Breweries: Cismontane's Evan Weinberg Tells All

    beerguy.tvCismontane Brewing Co.'s Evan Weinberg harvests wild California buckwheat ​ Last month, we asked Stone Brewing Company's Greg Koch and Golden Road Brewing's Meg Gill to share some of their favorite beers. And this month, we contacted Cismontane Brewing Company's Evan Weinberg to do ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2011

    The Oinkster/Maximiliano/Eagle Rock Brewery Take the Bacon at L.A. Beer Float Showdown

    Steven ArmstrongChef CJ Jacobson has fun with liquid nitrogen at the third annual LABFS​ Saturday marked the third annual L.A. Beer Float Showdown. And unlike last year's showdown, which featured four local beer bars, this year's competition teamed five L.A. chefs (including three Top Chef alu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2011

    Nibble Bit Tabby Brewery Closing

    Amid all the happy news of L.A. Beer Week -- splashy openings for Golden Road and Sunset Beer Company -- we have some sad news: Nibble Bit Tabby We talked to brewer and co-owner Brian Lethcoe, who tells us the brewery's last day will probably be October 31st. Don't expect a blowout party. Then a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2011

    How to Deconstruct a Beer: Firestone XV Anniversary

    Firestone Walker Brewing Company, three-time World Beer Cup champion and just named "Mid-Sized Brewery of the Year" at the Great American Beer Festival for an unprecedented third time, is hosting the most innovative event at this year's L.A. Beer Week: "Deconstructed LA." Sean Z. Paxton (aka the H ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2011

    LA Beer Week 2011: Opening Night Kicks Off at Naja's

    We love the fact that LA Beer Week is actually two weeks. From the kick off party at Naja's Place on tonight, October 10, through the closing beer festival at Union Station on Sunday October 23, this is an L.A. beer lover's dream month. Each and every day, multiple bars will be hosting "Event Nigh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2011

    BAM!!! Beer, Art & Music Festival in Santa Monica This Sunday

    Brewing craft beer is an art. That's why the name changed from microbrew to craft brew. The Second Annual BAM Fest (Beer, Art & Music Festival) will be held in Santa Monica on this Sunday, October 9, from 1-6 p.m. BAM celebrates the trifecta of locally produced art, music and, most importantly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2011

    The Top 5 IPAs in the World

    Here is the Cliffs Notes version of the three sweetest letters in craft brewing: IPA. The Brits, loving themselves some pale ale, would load up a big, slow ship full of the country's favorite liquid, and send it off to that not-so-tiny colony known as India. Problem was, the beer would go bad by ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2011

    Meg Gill's Top 5 L.A.-area Beers

    Tyler KempMeg Gill skates into L.A.'s craft beer scene​ Last week, we shared a list of six essential West Coast beers hand-picked by Greg Koch, the CEO and Co-Founder of Southern California's largest craft brewery: Stone Brewing Company in Escondido. This week, we've done something similar wit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2011

    Sunset Beer Company Opens in Echo Park Tomorrow

    Steven ArmstrongThe sun sets behind Sunset Beer Company​ In April, Squid Ink introduced Sunset Beer Company, a new craft beer bottle shop and tasting bar that was slated to debut in May. Today, the fledgling beer store, nestled in the southeast corner of an Echo Park strip mall, remains dark. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2011

    Greg Koch's 6 Essential West Coast Beers

    boggleabout.blogspot.comGreg Koch preaches to the craft beer choir​ Recently we asked Greg Koch, the evangelistic demagogue behind Stone Brewing Company -- the largest craft brewery in Southern California -- to share his top five essential West Coast beers. But, in true Stone Greg fashion, Koc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 9/6-9/9

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "The restaurant occupies one of the best spots in Little Tokyo, right next to the perpetually megacrowded ramen shop Daikokuya, and is as bright and modern as its blaring 1970s rock is not -- I'm no ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 6, 2011

    More L.A. Craft Beer News: Enegren Brewing Company

    Steven ArmstrongJoe Nascenzi and Matt Enegren at Enegren Brewing Co. ​ As often happens in life, collegiate eccentricities lead to post-baccalaureate vocations. For one Harvard dropout, late-night computer programming led to multi-billion dollar "facebooking." And for three Loyola Marymount gr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2011

    Brew at the Zoo: Craft Beers Party Animals

    gourmetpigs/flickrEagle Rock Brewery's Solidarity​ A dive bar on a bad night can feel like a zoo. Mobs of sweaty and not infrequently hairy folk barrel through spaces designed for fewer bodies. They feed at over-populated troughs: the bar itself, studded with glasses and bottles. They bark ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2011

    8th Street Bottle Room at Golden Gopher [Photo Gallery]

    Guzzle & NoshThe neon sign above the 8th Street Bottle Room at Golden Gopher.​All beer is good beer; some is just better than others. That's the axiom passed down to Mark Jilg from his grandfather. That would be Mark Jilg of the booming voice, the overflowing opinions, and the steady hand stee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2011

    Top 10 California Pale Ales

    Jake OgleThe Classic American Pale Ale​ American Pale Ales, arguably the most popular beer style for craft brewers, tend to range between 5-6 % alcohol by volume (abv). That makes them what some beer geeks call "sessionable," meaning you can enjoy quite a few of them in a single sitting witho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2011

    Golden Road Brewing: L.A.'s Newest Craft Brewery (Part 1)

    Guzzle & NoshCo-owner Meg and master brewer Jon Carpenter of Golden Road Brewing.​ They undersell their plans, but make no mistake, the size and scope of what Meg Gill, 26, and Jon Carpenter, 29, envision for Golden Road Brewing would transform it into the largest craft brewery in Los Angeles ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2011

    A Peek Into Mohawk Bend [Photo Gallery]

    [Photo gallery after the jump.] After months of anticipation and a few delays, Mohawk Bend, the beer wonderland conceived by Tony Yanow, owner of Tony's Darts Away in Burbank and co-owner of Golden Road Brewing in Atwater Village, will likely open on July 25th (or so we hear). Mohawk will featur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2011

    Beachwood BBQ and Brewing Opens in Long Beach

    Southern BBQ and Craft Beer at Beachwood​ Beachwood BBQ of Seal Beach, rated as one of the Top 5 Beer Bars in America by Beer Advocate magazine, is opening a second location on the Promenade in downtown Long Beach on Tuesday, July 5. Beachwood BBQ and Brewing is easily one of the most anticip ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2011

    Golden Road Brewing to Open in Atwater Village

    ​Because running one successful beer bar (Tony's Darts Away), working to open another (Mohawk Bend, delayed from its June 28th opening) and helping to organize a roving beer pop-up (ColLAboration) doesn't keep him busy enough, Tony Yanow is now launching his own brewery. Come September, Golde ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2011

    L.A. joins the Craft Beer Revolution: ColLAboration Rock & Brews

    Daniel DrennonRob Croxall, El Segundo Brewing, with Jennifer Greenhalgh, Rock and Brews​ This past weekend, legions of L.A. beer fans descended upon two beer "events" -- ColLAboration 2 in Hollywood on Saturday and the Rock and Brews Festival in El Segundo on Sunday. The huge turnout and joyo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2011

    ColLAboration 2: The Return of the Fantastic Four

    thefullpint.comFrom left to right - Tony Yanow, Clay Harding, Brian "The Blur" Lenzo, and Ryan Sweeney​ The outdoor beer festival, in theory, is genius. Sun. Fun. Beer. But often, after waiting in lines for four-ounce pours, it's more like a torturous 10-hour day at Disneyland where, on th ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    May 26, 2011

    Jonathan Gold Reviews Steingarten

    thefullpint.comFrom left to right - Tony Yanow, Clay Harding, Brian "The Blur" Lenzo, and Ryan Sweeney​ The outdoor beer festival, in theory, is genius. Sun. Fun. Beer. But often, after waiting in lines for four-ounce pours, it's more like a torturous 10-hour day at Disneyland where, on th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2011

    Book Review: Beer Craft: A Simple Guide to Making Craft Beer Is Simply Good

    ​Flipping through new home brewing books like Beer Craft: A Simple Guide to Making Craft Beer is a reminder how different the average home brewing recipe book is from the standard cookbook. For starters, the number of pages dedicated to basic homebrew techniques makes them more of a general gu ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 19, 2011

    Hey Everybody, Let's Go to a Fancy Beverly Hills Hotel and Get Stinkin' Drunk!

    ​Flipping through new home brewing books like Beer Craft: A Simple Guide to Making Craft Beer is a reminder how different the average home brewing recipe book is from the standard cookbook. For starters, the number of pages dedicated to basic homebrew techniques makes them more of a general gu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2011

    Prince Willy's Pint: Brewdog's Royal Virility Performance

    ​ When is a beer not a beer? When it's a gimmick, of course. And almost nobody makes more gimmicks (and fewer beers) than notorious Scottish brewery Brewdog. The most well-known of their efforts is Tactical Nuclear Penguin, a 32% abv imperial stout made by freezing their standard imperial s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2011

    Sunset Beer Company Retail Beer Shop And Tasting Bar Opening Soon In Echo Park

    JGarbeeAlex Macy And Beer Consultant Christina Perozzi With That Westy 12​If you know Alex Macy, co-founder of the LA Craft Beer Crawl and a beer consultant for several local bars over the years, you will appreciate the irony of a recent e-newsletter from Eagle Rock's Colorado Wine Company ann ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2011

    Q & A With Shanghai's Kelley Lee, Part 2: On Molecular Cocktails Craft Beer In China

    Kelley LeeLee Enjoying That Rare Home Cooked Meal​When we first spoke with L.A.-turned-Shanghai chef/restaurateur Kelley Lee, the 33-year-old was telling us about the more than half dozen American-style restaurants she's opened in China since moving there seven years ago. Not that it's all bee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2011

    LA Ale Club's Chili Cook-Off: Pints For Prostates

    LA Ale ClubSpradley (left) and 38 Degrees' Co-Owner Brian Sugita At Last Year's Event​Got a killer chili recipe? Of course you do. Get your ingredients ready for the 2nd annual L.A. Ale Club Chili Cook-off on April 2nd at 38 Degrees Ale House. Organized by L.A. Ale Club founder Chris Spradley, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2010

    L.A.'s Vegan Beer Festival Comes to The Roxy on Sunset

    Flickr/jefflisaSierra Nevada Brewery: Part of this weekend's Vegan Beer Festival​ Last month's downtown Craft Beer Festival may be over, but there's still a chance to get your hop on. Mark your calendar for this Saturday, November 6 from 1-5 p.m, when the L.A. Vegan Beer Festival (that's righ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2010

    Widmer's New Release: A New Bourbon Barrel-Aged Ale For That "Craft-Like" Taste

    J. GarbeeWidmer Bros. Reserve vs. Pappy Van Winkle​What happens when a small craft brewery officially tips over into the mid-sized brewery world? At Widmer Brothers, which merged with Redhook a few years ago, a reserve series is born. According to a press release, the third (and new) release i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2010

    Beer Lobby Gives $10,000 To 'No' On Proposition 19 Pot Legalization

    Beer​Update: We got an email from Tom McCormick of the California Small Brewers Association -- they're the ones who make good beers. He says, whoa, we got nothing to do with this effort to beat Prop. 19. Text of the email appear at the end, after the jump. A political action committee of the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2010

    Book (Or Guidebook?) Review: Great American Craft Beer by Andy Crouch

    ​With this month's release of Great American Craft Beer: A Guide to the Nation's Finest Beers and Breweries by Andy Crouch, it appears food and beverage guidebooks can officially no longer be simply the Frommer's guide to a specific ingestible (beer, wine, restaurant dishes). They must address ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2010

    Brace Yourself for Avery Barrel-Aged Wild Ale No. 5

    Ben CalderwoodAvery Wild Ale in its own words​ Of microbrewers with nationwide reach, Avery Brewing Company is unmatched. No one so eagerly flouts mass-market expectations, experiments with wild abandon and challenges conceptions and pre-conceptions about what makes a good beer better than Ave ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2010

    American Craft Beer Week: Declare Your Parabola Independence

    drinkwiththewench.comBehold: Craft Beer​ Welcome to American Craft Beer Week, the "We Are The World" of good beer. Today through Sunday, we have an official excuse to celebrate this country's sudsy best by indulging in craft beer specials around town, signing the Declaration of Beer Independe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2009

    Is Ethanol the New Home Brew? Karl Strauss to Recycle its Suds

    If burping cows are significant contributors to global warming, will those of us who let out the occasional lager-laden belch after downing a few cold ones soon be subject to EPA regulations? Not to worry. Anyone suffering from gastro-intestinal beer consumption guilt will be relieved to learn tha ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 2, 2009

    "I'D RATHER HAVE A BOTTLE IN FRONT OF ME THAN A FRONTAL LOBOTOMY." --TOM WAITS

    If burping cows are significant contributors to global warming, will those of us who let out the occasional lager-laden belch after downing a few cold ones soon be subject to EPA regulations? Not to worry. Anyone suffering from gastro-intestinal beer consumption guilt will be relieved to learn tha ... More >>

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