Culture Brewing has three beachy locations and you can choose your favorite since they have hazies for each one.
You can go for the L.A. Manhattan Beach or choose the more southernly Encinitas or Solana Beach.
Which Beach?
Dynamic Duo
There are collaborations and then there are super collaborations. Highland Park + Beachwood, well that is the level above super.
Here are the double details…
“Natural Born Shredder – West Coast-style IPA, our version of the previous beer collab released at Highland Park Brewery.
No Chestnuts in This Beer – Hoppy & crisp Italian-style pilsner, just in time as the warm weather creeps upon us for this pilsner.”
Once and Happily
Offshoot Beer Co. has a couple of romantic tinged IPAs for that summer wedding….
Once Upon a Time is a Hazy IPA bursting with flavor with enchanting aromas of watermelon, hard candy, and a mix of tropical fruits with a citrus kiss. One taste of this tropical medley, mixed with a hint of sweet jolly ranchers and a long citrus peel finish, and you’ll be ready for any adventure. ⠀
Happily Ever After is a West Coast IPA, pouring a clear straw color that you might just spin into gold. With bewitchingly delicious citrus and pine aromas, the palate rings true to style with a classic piney, earthy, dank flavor, finishing with a citrus medley. ⠀
Cold As Azacca
I think the boomlet of Cold IPA may melt away but here is another take on the sub-style from Glendale’s Brewyard Beer Co. Pro Tip – Find the Wayfinder originator of the style and try side by side.
How Many Times?
Three Weavers is leaving their latest beer unfiltered. A Thousand Times Yes is an unfiltered DIPA from the Inglewood brewery. How many times will you say yes to this hoppy creation?
Laurel
For many LA beer fans, there first exposure to Beachwood Brewing and their now enlarged world of IPAs was either Melrose or Laurel.
And now Laurel has resurfaced in brightly festooned cans again. Grab a 4-pack to relive the early days
Not A Coffee IPA?
Long Beach Beer Lab and Ambitious Ales are only separated by a mile or two and now they are even closer on the label for a new beer that is A) hazy B) over 10% and C) made with oat cream.
So more latte than coffee IPA it seems.
PS – I recently opened a can and it is fantastic. Big coffee. Big latte and still the hops show through too. Pick one up.
Fulton Fog
Readers of the blog know that I am an appreciator of fine label design and that I am wary when a brewery creates a a new brand.
Those two worlds collide with this very strange hazy IPA label from Van Nuys Beer Co. (a MacLeod Ales younger sibling).
The shopping cart plus the fog are creepy and then the yellow dots add a layer of modern art meets Brouwerij West to leave an overall eye catching label. I half expect a grocery bag to be pushed by the wind into the frame and then gust away.
The 2nd Burn
If you missed the first go round, Burnin’ Daylight Brewery is re-releasing their 2nd Anniversary beer. According to the brewery, Burn 2 is a West Coast style IPA “hopped with Strata and Citra”.
Safe to Open
Got another Pink Boots beer to alert the fans about. This time it is Pandora Wakes from the Eureka Brewing Co. Gotta make sure you try all of the collabs that have been showing up unless you are not a completist.