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Smog City has made a chocolate bar! Elements of Beer is a 55% milk & dark treat that is infused with malted barley and candied orange peel.
The chocolate portion of the equation was handled by Marsatta Chocolate, also of Torrance.
The Beer Search Party household is a big fan of Tony’s Choclonely chocolate (and their corporate mission) but I don’t know about their Kahlua collaboration Martony glass made of chocolate. I would skip putting sweet Kahlua or any type of martini into the lovely cocoa glass and instead try it with a stout or a fruit lambic preferably cherry or raspberry.
When in Los Angeles, you can obviously get great tacos but pizza and hamburgers are not too far behind either. And it is that last food item that interests us today because this month, Highland Park Brewery has an interesting line-up that will pair very well with their pilsners….
…the last one, Yellow Paper is darn good but I am even more intrigued by what Fluid State from Ventura and ISM from Long Beach are cooking up.
LA Sorted Pizza was a big player in feeding first responders in January during that horrific multiple wildfire event but now they can get back (to some extent) to being Dodger fans.
And their next step is to team up with nearby Homage Brewing on a beer. So a slice or an Italian sandwich will have a nice craft beer accompaniment.
Saw this photo in March but held onto it until now because, I can’t seem to find out if it is a hoax or just AI….
…there is Guinness coffee, fudge and even potato chips, so could be possible.
Either way, have a fun and funny April Fool’s Day.
So, yeah, Trader Joe suckered me in with the Irish Porter cheddar cheese. I admit it. At least it isn’t fake green colored. But is it fun? Is it porter-y or at least cheddar-y? Well, yes it has cheddar character but the consistency is more American slice and frankly, no porter taste to be found at all. It is decent cheese so it is an upgrade on most of foodstuffs out there. Would I buy next March, probably not.
I think America needs to have an intervention with the folks at Pringles. We do not talk about the weird sorta potatoey thing you do or what weird machines you use to make the shape but why on earth are they attempting a flavor based on beer can chicken. The hillbilly grill that generally uses low grade flavorless beer water to cook chicken. Why Pringles?
Hal Mooney has been a friend to the Los Angeles beer scene through tours, a beer box service and now is getting into the restaurant game with plans to take the 1960’s diner Huff’s in Long Beach into a pizza spot Mooney’s Pizza that will, naturally, have a beer component to it. Follow the journey to opening on their Instagram page or sign up for email notifications.
No, it is not a code name for a spy thriller, it is a very famous Flemish sour ale. One that I need to have a taste of again.
Brews Brothers is going all in on Duchesse de Bourgogne with a Verhaeghe Brewery Beer Dinner at their Burbank Brewpub on January 27th. It will be a 5-course meal expertly paired with Verhaeghe Brewery’s finest beers.
There are precious few beer pairing dinners out there and even fewer with Belgian beer so you may want to snap up this opportunity.
I missed trying Little Man ice cream when I was in Denver but Weldwerks Brewing has made it easier to get your frozen treats with their Salted Oreo Stout. And since L.A. gets the occasional Weldwerks, there just might be a chance we can try it.