Daniel Drennon

We're in the home stretch of an L.A. Beer Week that has, to this point, essentially been a non-stop nine-day party at beer bars across our fine city. Sure to be one of the biggest parties of them all will be "Ultimate Flight Night" at 38 Degrees in Alhambra tonight,......

Twenty-four guest beers rotate. Julian Shrago brews 12 excellent in-house beers and charges less for these beers because there's no shipping. Beachwood BBQ recently hosted its annual Sourfest with a list so extensive that some beer geeks took vacation days so as not to miss any gems. Owner/chef Gabe Gordon......

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......

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 Home Brew Chef)......

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,......

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......

Owner/chef Aaron Robbins makes some great BBQ at Boneyard Bistro. We grew up in the birthplace of barbecue -- North Carolina -- and let's just say that Boneyard makes a pulled pork sandwich we'd be proud to take back home to Uncle Wilbur. Robbins hickory smokes his meats for up......

When was the last time you got your drink on and played with someone else's balls? Unless it was last night, we highly recommend you head to the asphalt jungle, uh, Manhattan Village Mall, where you will find a little bit of Napa/Sonoma hiding along the outer circle. Tin Roof......

Tuesday, September 6. 11:00 a.m. A line of beer geeks waits outside for Beachwood BBQ in Seal Beach to open their doors at 11:30 in the morning for SourFest 2011. The line up of sour beers for the six-day festival that has Eric Salazar from New Belgium on Wednesday at......

A new gastropub, whatever the hell that is, seems to open every 15 minutes in the brave new world of a suddenly (meaning ten years late) beer-embracing Los Angeles. So as this phenomenon continues and we watch with bated breath to see which of the 10,000 beer joints survive past......