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Each year the Orange County Brewers Guild scare up the Brewers Mash in October for local beers and frights.
The frightful fest is on October 26th this year at the Heritage Museum of Orange County. So get your costumes ready for some trick-or-treating and maybe some spooky special releases.
Just down the coastline, Brouwerij West has a late summer Pilsner out now that they brewed up with Altamont Brew works, the resulting light beer is Live Animals and is a 5.5% West Coast Pils.
San Pedro has some big waterfront plans in the pipeline in what is called the West Harbor Development ( see one of the proposed renderings below ) and some possible tenants are either onboard or linked to it at this point.
From the craft beer perspective, San Diego based Mike Hess Brewing is one of these tenants which means that you might be able to hit up both Brouwerij West and Mike Hess in a day down by ocean.
Your Beer Friend which has themed beer packages to buy throughout the year is now debuting their craft beer trailer. A 1955 trailer is now a rolling bar with six taps in it.
They are now accepting reservations for the trailer for events in Los Angeles and Orange County.
Every once in a while, I like to give some flowers to label designs that show extra effort, are fun and just flat out rise above the cut.
Burgeon Beer Co. takes a diner ticket approach to Order Up.
There are loads of little details. The color is spot on and there is even a binder clip as well. All with enough space and room for the hop bill and the charitable causes logos too. Works on all levels.
You go around the sun enough times and you run into everything. Even a biegarten in Munich that serves only alcohol free beer.
Click the Facebook link HERE for a short video.
Personally, one spot in an entire large city should not worry German brewers and instead should make them look at their offerings to see what they can do better.
According to the Craft Maltsters Guild Craft Malt Week has bloomed into Craft Malt Month for September of this year.
Events and collaborations can be found on the official calendar at craftmaltmonth.comso you can find malt forward beers and maybe even learn a little bit about the world of craft malt.
The good thing and bad thing about having an outpost of Creature Comforts Brewing in DTLA is that some beers are Georgia only.
Here is to hoping that Tsundoku a Japanese Rice Lager makes the jump to us. Because what the name means (literally the collecting of books that you haven’t read, however it’s concept is rooted in a continuous act of curiosity.” is as cool as one of the featured ingredients Carolina Gold rice from Tidewater Farms.
Common Space Brewery is hitting up #GreatBeerGivesBack hashtag with the new Furry Friends Hazy IPA. They already did the puppy part but if you want to support by getting a beer and not a new pet, then hustle down to Hawthorne.
It is not often that I drink an Italian beer. And even less often that I taste one on draft so when my wife and I went out to Pasta Sisters in Culver City and I saw that they had two beers on draft from Menabrea Brewing, well, I had to try.
I had to really adjust my taste buds and expectations after having a DDH and a TDH IPAs earlier in the day. This is water from the Alps. A slight touch of Old World hops and then leaning into malt without being a big beer. This is subtle. No spice notes, no bitterness just malt and it was a great way to end a drinking day or to start one. Rosso is a beer that can get lost in the shuffle between hoppy bangers so one needs to have this with food and enjoy it.