Daniel Drennon

Update: 3/16, 5:00 p.m. Blue Palms manager Matt Olesh announced this afternoon that the popular beer bar and restaurant will reopen tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. Olesh told us, "In the coming week, we will announce a date for a grand re-opening party to thank our loyal fans for their love......

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 the artists who......

Deck the halls with winter warmers... aka holiday beers. Most brewers offer up a seasonal special and many local beer bars are hosting "Christmas Beer Festivals," including a recent such event at Naja's Place. Dozens of holiday brews abound, usually darker and higher in alcohol to warm your innards in......

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 manager Jimmy Smith,......

Since 2003, one of the hottest hangs on Hermosa's thriving Pier Avenue bar and restaurant scene has been "Med." With an inviting indoor bar and dining room, but an even better outdoor patio for bikini and board short clad people-watching, Mediterraneo was an immediate local hit for the killer tapas......

Bored with hanging out at your local craft beer bar? Of course you aren't. These parlors of liquid pleasure are like being at a chill party at your best friend's living room. What could be more fun than that? Two words: road trip. Most of the regional breweries supplying the......

Lost in a corner between a Loehmann's and an Acapulco, Tantalum is an Asian-jungle-oasis-escape from the SUV-driving hordes at Best Buy, Ralph's, and Sports Authority. As you enter with the less-than-zero expectations inspired by the front façade, you are greeted by a huge, open series of rooms with such spectacular......

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 notice, but have just......

L.A. Beer Week was a 14-day nonstop party that required four days of recovery. But what a blast. Dozens of events at beer bars across Los Angeles were packed with beer fans, new and old alike. After some reflection, we made our picks for the five best beers we tasted......

The spectacular closing weekend of the 2011 L.A. Beer Week features Far Bar hosting gold-medal winning Kern River Brewing Saturday, followed by the L.A. Beer Week Closing Festival featuring over 70 brewers at historic Union Station on Sunday, and then a drink-til-you-drop after-party is back at Far Bar Sunday afternoon......