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These are the beers that I wish I could taste for the first time.
Sierra Nevada is expanding their torpedo fleet by two with the upcoming release of Pacific Torpedo a West Coast IPA featuring Magnum, Chinook, CTZ and Idaho 7 hops and also Dank Torpedo a DIPA that the brewery says is “packed with sticky golden lupulin”.
I have dabbled in the alternative burgers. Even kinda like the Impossible Burger when I want something lighter than an In n Out. One local vegan burger joint is Monty’s Good Burger.
There is one in Koreatown and one in Echo Park and now they have a local craft house beer, from Party Beer Co.
Considering it is just four letters, Pivo has spawned quite a few collaborative beers that play with the name for the much loved Firestone Walker ode to Italian Pilsner.
And now there is another one that we might see here in Los Angeles since Creature Comforts is here as well as Georgia.
I feel like this upcoming beer is ripe for Em Sauter of Pints & Panels to do artwork on beers and streaming services….
Yup, Athletic Brewing the leader in the N/A beer space has teamed up with Netflix for an IPA. Makes one wonder what a Disney+ or Hulu beer would be and by what brewer.
Here in Los Angeles, we get our fair share of Prairie Artisan Ales, mostly the big stouts which leaves me hopeful that I will see this new release from the aforementioned Prairie Artisan Ales with American Solera, and the third member bourbon maker Pursuit United Spirits drop a 3 Way Beer Collaboration called Not Subtle. “an Imperial Stout aged in Pursuit United Bourbon barrels.”
I have listened to the Bourbon Pursuit podcast and hope to get my hands on a Pursuit bourbon since my visit to Louisville was too early to see their tasting room on Bourbon Row but this beer might be the first I get.
Every brewery, back in the day, would celebrate not only anniversaries but also when they reached batch number milestones. You don’t see it as much anymore but MadeWest has their Batch 1000 out now, “a triple dry hopped triple hazy IPA featuring Citra, Nelson and Idaho 7 hops.” With “aromas of tangerine, pink cotton candy and ripe mango.”
I am here for all the new rice lagers that are being released including this swinging door new beer from Benny Boy Brewing in East Los Angeles.
It is probably not much of a shock for Stone Brewing to have an anniversary IPA. The only question is, what sub-style will it be? The answer, at least for year 28 is a hazy double IPA brewed with Nelson Sauvin and Mosaic hops. More details below…
My Orange County brewery visit list is getting too long and one of those on that list is Villains Brewing in the old Modern Times spot near Unsung and Monkish.
But they have made things a little easier with….cans!
Each year Firestone Walker finds a partner and concocts their own Festbier and the style has run the beer gamut. Now we know this years beer is….
“Trailing West is this year’s Firestone Walker Invitational Beer Festival signature, collaborative release. A limited-edition pilsner made with our friends at Half Acre Beer, the recipe pairs a decoction mash of an Austrian barley variety over 100 years old with old-world Hersbrucker and Hallertaur Mittelfruh hops.”
