Category: Canned Beer

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You’re Welcome

King Harbor has a new canned offering coming, but it is not hazy or a DIPA, it is smooth sailing…

…which I take to mean, the King Harbor equivalent of a table beer (or in popular sales parlance, the 805).

Perhaps this will take-off and be seen out on the beaches of Hermosa, Manhattan and others in the South Bay.

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Sam 76


For years, I have heard the calls for a pilsner or lager renaissance and each year a new style of IPA becomes the It Girl/Boy of the moment.

But maybe a nationally distributed brand with a patriotic theme can make PilsLife a reality. Personally, I think that Sam Adams is due for a hit beer.

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Featured Review – Taste the Rain, Bros. from Indie Brewing


Indie Brewing has another 16oz haze can. (Don’t worry, they probably have more in the pipeline, though not as colorful) I hope the Whale Bros took this as a bit of a slap. The Rain pours a hazy dark orange color. This DIPA certainly tastes double strength which, in a way, works against the haze softness texture it has going. It is more dank and piney to me. I would tag it as a hybrid that gives you flavors from both worlds.

Despite the label no skittles harmed in this beer.

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Relax All Year

The Bruery’s OffShoot Beer brand is adding a wrinkle to their Hazy IPA cans, a year round distributed one.

I have patiently waited as the IPA’s were online only, then at the Bruery taproom’s, then on keg in select bars and now I may be able to buy a 4-pack off the shelf. That is a whole lot easier than a drive from the valley to Orange County.

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Magical Merlin

There is so much science and engineering when it comes to beer that beer seems almost the tip of the iceberg above water while underwater is vast machinery that gets a beer to you the best way possible.

Case in point….

…Firestone Walker and their new Nitro Merlin.

Instead of a widget inside the can as is often used, FW went with drips and drops utilizing a liquid Nitrogen drip machine to release a drop of nitrogen into each can.

The rest is up to you. You will need to “Surge Pour” this Merlin by inverting the can three times to “wake up” the nitrogen then pour that beer hard and true in the center of your glass.

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The Wookie to Wookus


I know that there is only a passing familial resemblance between Wookie Jack and the upcoming Leo V Ursus – Wookus but it is good to welcome a beer back that has been absent for a while. Even if the recipe is updated for the times.

And I am even more excited to hear that a Firestone Walker canned lager will be coming in 2018. And the next Leo v Ursus has also been announced, Doublis.