One of my favorite beers for the scary season is on the way, Number of The Yeast, will return to taps and in a limited amount of 16-oz cans on Friday, September 28th at Angel City Brewery.
And yes, it is good to still have a Black (Cascadian) IPA around in 2018 but the extra cool part is that the brewery has teamed with Art Share and artist Parker Winans for a crazy, dark piece of can art. “Winans’ art will be on display and available for purchase in Art Share L.A.’s rotating gallery series at Angel City Brewery or you can check out his art shop HERE.
Oh Say Can You Sea
Tomorrow, you can get a beer whale at Beachwood…
Of course the whale is on the can but if it helps, the label does recognize the nearby Aquarium of the Pacific. Either way, they do uniformly great IPAs so loom for the 12oz can
Congregation Crowlers
Looks like the Congregation Ales mini-chain has added a to-go option. But only from their Azusa brewpub.
Crowlers of selected beers will now come in 32oz cans emblazoned with their logo and will come in handy since they generally do draft only. Now you can take their beers to parties or wherever you crowl.
Do the Can Can
I like a good cocktail but between prices at fancy bars and the ingredients that need to be muddled at home, I don’t drink a lot.
Now if the Can Can Cocktails could work their way to L.A. from up north. I would be interested.
This White Linen sounds quite good…
“To make the White Linen we take the freshest cucumbers we can find, infuse them in high proof vodka, add gin botanicals, elderflower, lemon, a little bit of cane sugar than carbonate the whole thing in our 1000L pressure tanks.”
One Fish, Two Fish
One of the first to really dive into cans is back with more IPA for hop fans.
Pizza Port – Bressi Ranch Fish IPA has gone from house IPA to six-pack.
I don’t know much about surfing or surf culture other than the videos you see on YouTube which are crazy. This IPA is not named for a generic fish but the fish surfboard. Per the brewery this IPA “has bright citrus and tropical notes, followed by hints of lemon, gooseberry, and melon.”
Can-bic?
Are there beers that just can’t or shouldn’t be in cans? Apparently the British
Chorlton Brewing Co. started to go down the canned lambic track but then reversed course saying, “popping the cork on a bottle of lambic is part of the experience and justifies the high value of the product.”
I understand that a style may either not be able to hit the needed carbonation level or wouldn’t be able to condition correctly if put into a can but as someone who has both won and lost battles with corked beer bottles, I would not think twice about popping a can of lambic. The defining factor for me is the beer inside.
I would however love to see a Brut IPA in a champagne style bottle. Preferably green.
Hot Time Porter in the Summer
I am a fan of the Nitro can (or bottle for that matter) be it with a little widget at the bottom or the hard pour.
Now there is a new beer that I will be searching for from Fort Point in the Bay Area…
A 4% roasty beer with that Nitro whip topping, sounds great.
Mikkeller San Francisco is Hazy
Time does fly. The San Francisco outpost of Mikkeller is now 5. And now they have planted a large flag in California with a brewery in San Diego and a lovely DTLA spot that is one of my favorite spots to taste beer.
Now they are going hazy for a “Quintuple dry hopped” hazy IPA to mark the five year mark. Makes me wonder what type of beer will be popular when the LA location turns that age.
Rad Riesling
Mixing the two worlds of wine and beer with just the right balance requires some serious blending skill. And considering that 2017 was the hottest year on record, I will need something light and refreshing which makes this offering from the Union Wine Company intriguing on two levels. You get grapefruit juice, Riesling wine and two C-Hops (Crystal and Cascade).
Part wine cooler, part radler and part hops.
Brut AF
The Full Pint beer blog has made it pretty easy to help them celebrate their 11th anniversary. They released a beer with Pizza Port, they have another with Faction Brewing coming up and for Angelenos, they have…. BRUT AF.
Here are the details for the El Segundo stop: “And we’re canning this sucker and throwing a party in its honor…Saturday, August 11th, 12PM-10PM, MARK YOUR CALENDARS! The Full Pint crew will be here hanging out and Vella Pizza will be cooking your favorite pie.”