Erika Bolden

With the Labor Day holiday weekend approaching, you are undoubtedly destined to have a few lowest common denominator beers with your barbecue. Even those of us who tend toward craft will be living the High Life. You can start the weekend on a much classier note by attending the Dogfish......

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......

With a steep ticket price for a relatively new event, there was a knot of anticipation about whether this year's L.A. Craft Beer Crawl would prove worth its malt. By every measure, it most certainly was. On Saturday, Aug. 18, two thousand eager beer nerds and bar regulars received their......

At this time last year on an unassuming Saturday 2,000 people gathered downtown for the L.A. Craft Beer Crawl to sample some of the finest beer in Southern California. The heat was intense, the crowd was packed, and the waitlist for spare tickets was long. This year, for the fourth......

Beer pairing has the same transformative effect on food as wine, but the transformation is entirely different. Pouring a liter of lager with your wings won't exactly result in a Michelin three-star meal, but superficial flavors will fall in line like Tetris pieces to build and unlock even bigger, more......

Saturday is National Mead Day. And while it may not be a pre-entered holiday on your wall calendar, it's certainly worth celebrating, even outside the perimeters of a Renaissance Festival or your local Beowulf reading group. Ten years ago the American Homebrewers Association (AHA) determined that the first Saturday in......

Recently we were amazed -- and a little appalled -- by the news of Rogue's plan to brew "beard beer." Today we're just flabbergasted. A brewery in the town of Ostrava in the Czech Republic has released a video disclosing a beer it brews with actual gold. Re, named after......

It all started as an effort to increase the terroir of their beer. In a press release that is equal parts repulsive and fantastic, Rogue Brewing Co. in Newport, Ore., announces it is testing recipes for a beer that will be fermented by yeast that was growing spontaneously in its......

The results are in for the 10th annual "Best Beers in America" poll from Zymurgy magazine, craftbeer.com reports. A Colorado-based publication of the American Homebrewers Association (AHA), Zymurgy has long asked its readers to vote for their favorite commercially available beers. This year's polling numbers set records, with 16,445 beer......

Monkish Brewing Co. feels like the best kept beer secret of the South Bay. Located in a modest business park along Western Avenue in Torrance, you won't find the usual bells and whistles that alert you to the presence of fine, craft beer: The beer is speaking for itself. Open......