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Top 4 Weekend Events: Tacos & Beer 5K, Vegan Beer Festival, Gluten-Free Festival Cinco de Mayo Block Party

Tacos & Beer 5K Tacos & Beer 5K will be taking place in Long Beach, sponsored by Exitos 93.9 FM MC Raq-c and MC Nachin, Bud Light Lime, TeQava, and East Los Angeles Tacos. Participants who finish the race will receive a taco and a beer in addition to a finisher medal, goodie bag, and t-shirt. Food t ... More >>

Q & A with Jeffers Richardson of Firestone Walker's Barrelworks: Live Ales, Oak Wine Barrels California's Newest Beer Destination

Firestone Walker Brewing Company is a bit of a bipolar operation. On one side, the award-winning 16 year-old central California brewery has been rapidly expanding its Paso Robles facility to accommodate increased volume and consumption of its tried-and-true flagship pale ales, IPAs and stouts. An ... More >>

Top 5 Beers of San Diego Beer Week: Barrel-Aged Brews, Political Beers Pasadena Sours

A wise San Diego brewer once said, "Every week in San Diego is beer week," an undeniable truth for a county with more than 60 breweries and two decades of beer culture to its fame. And still, the ten-day festival officially known as San Diego Beer Week continues to amaze palettes, concluding its 4 ... More >>

5 End of Summer California Beer Releases To Buy Now

Beer is an unorthodox object to fetishize. When you see a half-dozen men dressed from business to bro, outpacing each other in a parking lot on their lunch break for a few remaining limited-release beers, how else can this phenomenon be described? Our no. 1 beer to buy is eliciting this response all ... More >>

Top 5 Weekend Food Events: Mixology101 Classes, Restaurant Opportunities Center Happy Hour, KCRW Dinner Date, Tam O'Shanter's 90th Birthday Federal Bar Beer Dinner

Mixology101 Cocktail Classes Bartenders Joseph Brooke of Mixology101 and Salvatore Calabrese from London teach about cocktail culture and mixing techniques. "Journey Through the Classics" on June 25 features classic cocktails such as the martini and old-fashioned, while "Sizzling Summer Entertaining ... More >>

Kristen Bell's Hosting the CMT Awards? Here Are Five Alternatives That Would Be Even Worse

See also: If You Don't Like Country Music You're a Blue State Elitist It's time for the much-anticipated annual CMT Awards, held tomorrow night on Country Music Television. But even those who don't know much about country -- or think the whole thing is little more than a red state conspiracy -- ar ... More >>

The Bottle Room's 3rd Anniversary

Been to Whittier lately? Been to Whittier ever? Well, this is your chance if you are a beer fan. For the third anniversary of the comfy, brick-walled Bottle Room, chef/owner Tony Alcazar and his L.A. City firemen co-owners Patrick Best and Brandon Ibrahim will offer a beer list worth driving to Veg ... More >>

Drink This Now and Later: Firestone Walker XV Anniversary Ale

B. MesirowFirestone Walker XV from box to glass​The enlightened readers of this blog should be well aware by now that great beer is just as complex as wine. However, in the off chance that you have yet to ascend to the craft beer plane of being, we've found you a shortcut to Nirvana: Fireston ... More >>

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 >>

[Updated:] Cancellation of ColLAboration Craft Beer Garden: Winter Wonderland

Update: December 2, 2011. 2:15 p.m. The ColLAboration event scheduled at Golden Road Brewing tomorrow has been cancelled due to power outages at the brewery resulting from the high winds. ColLAboration Winter Wonderland will be rescheduled in 2012. The event organizers are sorry for the late noti ... More >>

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 >>

American Farmhouse: A New Location, an Old Look

Barbara Hansenthe dining room at American Farmhouse​ There couldn't be a happier place than American Farmhouse Tavern & Dining Hall in Manhattan Beach. Happy hour ($4 wines, beers, well drinks and appetizers) is whenever you want to go, lunch, late afternoon or from 9 p.m. until midnight. N ... More >>

Top 5 Weekend Food Events: Craft Beer Crawl, Brew At The Zoo, Hudson Block Party, Porchetta Roast, Perfectasy

Guzzle & NoshA berr sampler. Drink up.​Los Angeles Craft Beer Crawl With a beer selection curated by The Beer Chicks, you can hit seven downtown bars -- Golden Gopher, Seven Grand, Cole's, Las Perlas , Casey's, Caña and Broadway Bar -- to sample over 50 beers from 26 breweries including Alla ... More >>

38 Degrees Ale House & Grill: Beer Lover's Paradise... in Alhambra

Daniel DrennonClay Harding, co-owner of 38 Degrees with 38 taps​ Apparently the economic downturn has not hindered craft beer drinkers. They say, even in a recession, folks will still seek an escape from tough times at the movies. The same can now be said of beer bars. Despite dozens of ho ... More >>

Weiland Brewery: The Most Ridiculous Happy Hour in L.A.

Jake OgleWeiland interior ​ Los Angeles is 500 square miles and a thousand bars. So you have a pretty good selection of "happy hours" to get your drink on. That said, the two Weiland Brewery locations in downtown LA offer incredibly reasonable happy hour prices Monday-Friday from 3-7 p.m. an ... More >>

Happy Hour: Fig In Santa Monica, Half Off Everything (Yes, Everything)

J. GarbeeSeared Tuna Nicoise Salad At Fig​The Place: Fig, 119 Broadway, Santa Monica; (310) 395-6037. The Hours: Tuesday through Thursday, 5-6 p.m. The Deals: Half off everything on the menu, including drinks What did we think? Turn the page to find out...

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 >>

The Chosen One

How the labor-Latino political machine decides who serves in Sacramento

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 >>

Our Favorite Happy Hours

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Mechanic Sentenced To Five Years After Setting Man On Fire

​For a guy who nearly burned the last breath out of a homeless man by setting his cart on fire, five years seems like a short stint in the big house. (Pot growers can get such terms under federal law). But that was punishment handed down to Hector Manuel Medina this week after he admitted sett ... More >>

Sneak Peek inside The Surly Goat: West Hollywood Beer Bar to Open on Monday

It wasn't the first beer-soaked lie a drunkard ever told, but it's certainly one of the most enduring. As the story goes, two German nobelmen were drinking when one fell off his beer barrel. Rather than admit he was drunk, he insisted that a nearby billy goat (known as a "bock" in German) had charge ... More >>

Firestone Launches "Discoveries" Wines: Score a Free Trip to Peru!

Firestone Discoveriesporters serving tea​Firestone Vineyards is celebrating the launch of its new wine label, Firestone Discoveries, by offering to pay you $1,000 to hike Peru's Inca Trail to Machu Picchu this spring. You'll be accompanied by a yet-undisclosed guest chef who promises to keep y ... More >>

Beer, Coffee, Cupcakes and Greyhounds: Firestone Walker's "13" Anniversary Ale Release Party

Firestone WalkerBrewmaster Matt Brynildson ​Tomorrow will be the third, and final, Friday the 13th in 2009 (the next triple play won't occur until 2015). On Saturday, we suggest you celebrate surviving yet another night of horror flick marathons by driving to Paso Robles for Firestone Walker's ... More >>

At El Monte’s Birrieria La Barca Jalisco, spicy transcendence comes in a molcajete

Mortar fire

Welcome to Gentrification City

Teardowns. Evictions. Investment. Rebirth. And the significance of that new gelato stand. The perils and pleasures of gentrification

The Takeover King

Is Mayor V betraying his old-time union allies? Or rescuing L.A.’s troubled public school system? Whatever the answer, he faces the biggest risks of his political career.

I’ve Got You Under My Skin

Remembering the stinging lungs of an L.A. boyhood

Dennis Zine, City Council District 3

Huggy Hertzberg

Smart and out to break up L.A. Unified, this Valley guy wants to touch every voter in L.A.

Killing Time on the Ghetto Blue

The nation's busiest- and deadliest - light rail line

Pursuits of Justice

The Big Blowup

A mom’s guide to dumping Firestone tires

Imperfect Recall

I’m okay, the problem is my cheap car

Taming the Wild Trickle

A Gray-Water Adventure on the Mighty L.A.

Generation XX

20 years of covering the unheard music

The Battles of Algiers

Why does the worst place on Earth seem so familiar?