Category: I would love to taste,,,

These are the beers that I wish I could taste for the first time.

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Extra Coast Please

Topa Topa Brewing Co. Brewmaster Casey Harris got together with San Diego’s Craft Coast Beer + Tacos Head Brewer Blake Masoner to collaborate on a new beer, and went with the little seen XPA, one they named Extra Coasty.

The duo “developed a selection of hops and explored different processes to create a beer showcasing clean hop bitterness without the hard, bitter bite nor an aggressive alcohol content that comes with other popular hoppy beer styles.”

And here are those Hops: Mosaic, Strata, Nectaron, Krush; Mosaic Cryo and Mosaic Dyna Boost, oh, if you were curious about the malt, that is Pure Idaho Pilsner, White Wheat, and Carapils.

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Heady Twenty

It is amazing the speed of time, every day you learn that a movie is ten years old or a song is thirty years old. Or that a beer is now twenty!

Heady Topper from The Alchemist has been around two decades and it has a special, amped up version to mark the occasion….

L.A. gets the Heady and Focal every once in a while but I do not expect to see this in California.

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Smore-whal

Sierra Nevada’s famed Narwhal is getting a campsite variant with a Barrel-Aged Toasted S’More.  It is an imperial stout aged in Bourbon barrels with cocoa nibs and natural graham cracker flavors.  No mention of marhsmallow though for this 11.9% beer.

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Believe

Narratives, whether true or false, can be powerful.  Many American cities have been painted with a broad brush of “unsafe” or “uncool” even if the day to day is not much different.

Portland, my hometown neighbor to the north, has endured a bit of bad press you could say but during both of my visits this year, it has seemed just as filled with beer, good food and frustrating parking as any city one lives in or visits.

So I am glad to see Old Town Brewing go to bat and stand up for the City of Roses with their recently launched Believe in Portland IPA.  Which you can read more about HERE.

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Alt and Smokey

El Segundo Brewing is up to their third collaboration with noted home brewer John Palmer.  First was a Dunkelbock and second was a Czech Dark Lager and now their is a Smoked Altbier.

Altbier is a Düsseldorf classic but this has a smoked malt twist.  Beechwood to be precise.  

Maybe when they get to a fourth European style, they will do a mixed four-pack.

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Oktoberfest SoCal – Part 1

Throughout the month, I will be highlighting some Festbiers from Los Angeles ( and adjacent county ) breweries that will be readily available for your Germanic beer needs, here is post # 1…

Around the horn, clockwise, we have Oaktoberfest, a classic from Firestone Walker, Bear Ears from Brouwerij West, Huftgold from El Segundo Brewing and Das Hof from Hermosa Brewing.

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Cookies, Cream and Stout

I do not need any nostalgia when it comes to ice cream. I will have it every day to keep it in mind if needed but Radiant Beer Co. has a new late summer stout to maybe pair with a pint…

Nostalgic Vibes is a cookies and cream ice cream cone pastry stout. Using Cacao nibs, Comoros Vanilla Beans, crushed chocolate sandwich cookies and waffle cone pieces.