Daniel Drennon

Update: 8/24, 2:15 p.m. In a very Sheriff of Nottingham move, the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (everyone sing! ABC, defg, hijk)has notified the would-be Robin Hoods at Beer Belly that the giving out of a free craft beer in exchange for a less-than-worthless crap beer is a violation......

Hermosa Beach has more bars per square foot than Sacramento has politicians, good ones anyway, so it's impressive that the new Hot's spot (yes, we can and will beat this to death if we so choose) is Hot's Kitchen. Hot's features "small plate cuisine" by exec chef Sean Chaney, also......

Seems like just yesterday, Brian Lenzo opened Blue Palms Brewhouse in the historic Henry Fonda Music Box Theatre. Now Lenzo is about to unleash an outdoor beer festival that will accommodate 1000 beer drinkers to celebrate Blue Palms 3rd Anniversary. The celebration comes complete with one of the best hard-to-get......

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 without a high risk of faceplanting......

Guys and beer go hand in hand like sand and surf. Chicks drink wine or some fruity mixed drink, right? That stereotype, deserved or not, seems to be changing as more and more women are learning to love a fine craft beer. Evidence? The growing percentage of women we see......

Who knew? The Four Points by Sheraton at LAX, aka "The Beer Hotel", has been serving craft beer in their Brewster's bar since 2000, making them one of the forerunners of the burgeoning L.A. beer scene. Hotel GM Phil Baxter opened Brewster's in the hotel lobby with ten taps, nine......

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 anticipated openings in L.A.'s......

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 housing projects downtown getting cancelled due to the financial malaise,......

Traffic. Air pollution. Earthquakes. So why, at your local sports bar, are seemingly half the patrons transplants from New York, Boston and Chicago pulling for their hometown teams and lamenting "how great it is back home?" Four words. Bikinis. Board shorts. Beer. Another idyllic summer has arrived here in Los......