Sarah Bennett

Frances Michelle Lopez tends to gets obsessed with things. In high school, the 30-year-old Silver Lake native (who goes by “Franny”) was all about community service. Accepted on open enrollment to Beverly Hills High School, she served as a regional president for Kiwanis Club and became, in her words, “one......

Remember that Corazon y Miel pop-up that launched last weekend at Public Beer and Wine in Long Beach? Well, consider that pop-up permanent — chef Eddie Ruiz just bought the place. Ruiz moved to Long Beach last year and quickly became a regular at the bottle shop and taproom, which......

Somewhere between the THC-infused composed plate of curried carrot-confit gnocchi and pea emulsion (paired with the aromatic terpene extract of earthy Blue Dream) and the seared Japanese scallop atop micro-dosed citrus barley (paired with the aromas of Northern Lights and Candyland buds), I realized I was pretty high. In accordance......

It's been a long three-year wait for Westside craft beer fans as Central Coast favorites Firestone Walker navigated permit purgatory to build out and open their new Venice campus. This week, the wait is (sort of) finally over. Though the former Sizzler on the corner of Lincoln and Washington boulevards......

Like Russian River's Pliny the Younger, Founders Brewing's Kentucky Breakfast Stout is one of those annually released beers that is often hyped and rarely attained. But while you can technically camp out at any number of SoCal bars each February for a chance to taste Russian River's sought-after triple IPA,......

L.A. Beer Week, the week-long celebration of all things local craft beer, is back June 18 for its eighth event. The opening-day L.A. Beer Week Kickoff Festival has nearly doubled in size over the years, moving from the Old Chinatown Plaza to Exposition Park to this year’s event at L.A......

In early 2013, when Connor Forbes and Kevin O’Malley wrote the first business plan for Indie Brewing Company, session beers were still a progressive dream.  For years, low-alcohol beers had been associated with the tasteless fizzy yellow stuff, and craft beer earned its reputation as a home for boozy IPAs,......

Brouwerij West’s expansive San Pedro facility, housed inside a 70-year-old Port of Los Angeles receiving warehouse a few hundred feet from the water, officially opens Saturday after nearly three years of construction. Awash with exposed wood, the historic building is an open-air marvel that provides visitors with views of the......