Erika Bolden

Tickets go on sale Sunday, Feb. 8 2015, at 9:00 a.m. PST, for the fourth annual Firestone Walker Invitational Beer Festival (FWIBF). As they have in previous years, these will likely sell out within minutes, so grab your coffee early and get set before sales start. The festival will take......

Los Angeles is a culinary wonderland. One of its greatest features is the full range of affordability. Now that you have mastered the taco-and-ramen end of the spectrum, it's time to explore fine dining. Still waiting for your script to get picked up or for your startup to take off?......

Tacos are one of the most ubiquitous and beloved foods in Los Angeles. Everyone has an opinion on where the best ones can be found, based on varying degrees of freshness, authenticity or innovation. Most modest taquerias have no license to sell alcohol; if they do, the selection is limited......

No one likes a skunky beer — an undesirable flaw that occurs quickly if a bottle is improperly stored. And there are plenty of other things that can go wrong once a case of bottles leaves the brewery, from degraded hop aromas (noticeably lessened four to six months after a......

No moment in L.A. feels more wintry than the flash flood warnings issued for a Pineapple Express weather system dumping much-needed precipitation on our parched metropolis. It’s a time to hunker down and hang with people you really like. Decorate the tree, spin the dreidel, or just sit back and......

Craft beer fans pucker up because the award-winning Beachwood BBQ and Brewing has released details about their highly anticipated new facility and sour beer venture, Beachwood Blendery. In a 4,500-square-foot space adjacent to their downtown Long Beach brewpub, Beachwood Blendery will house a sour-beer barrel room, a blendery, a lab and, eventually, a......

Ever seen the movie Somm? In the film, four wine professionals put it all on the line to pass a crazy difficult exam in order to receive the title of Master Sommelier. Well, the beer industry has an equivalent. It’s called the Master Cicerone. Last week eleven people congregated in......

This Sunday, Oct. 26, from 1-5 p.m. is the 5th annual Santa Monica BAM Fest for beer, art and music. The festival is a celebration and benefit for the 18th Street Arts Center, a non-profit organization that has spent the last 25 years offering artist Residency Programs and engaging the......

DENVER — Walk around the floor of the 33rd annual Great American Beer Festival and every L.A. County resident is bleary-eyed but blissful. The fest, which hosts just under 50,000 beer enthusiasts and over 700 breweries, was moved up by a week this year, landing it immediately after L.A. Beer......

On Saturday, Sept. 27, Firestone Walker Brewing Co. celebrated the end of LA Beer Week with their third annual Wild Ride. In a 1964 Series 2A Land Rover named Olivia, they delivered kegs of specialty sour beer from their Barrelworks brewery in Buellton to four different bars throughout Los Angeles......