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Frogtown is an area of Los Angeles that I would not have pegged for a brewery. Tiny streets, near the L.A. River, hemmed in by freeways. But Frogtown Brewery has made it work for eight years now and have a weekend party scheduled for the first weekend in October.
Offshoot Beer Co. the hop arm of The Bruery has teamed up with noted midwestern IPA maker, Hop Butcher for the World on a new hazy double IPA, Beach Casual will be dressed up to 7.5% abv.
Enough Okto talk and time for an Oktoberfest bier review as we dive into the 2024 cross cultural collaboration between Sierra Nevada with Brauerei Gutmann.
At 6%, this Oktoberfest is on the higher side. The beer pours a yellow streaked orange and the malt is strong in the aroma. The first has a big hit of minerality to it. Which is followed by the malt profile. I detect a little orange peel hop note swirling around as well. Also getting a hefeweizen note as well which makes this beer a bit of a hybrid.
This month, as a bit of a scientific lark, I am going to review the same beer weeks apart to see if any differences can be found. I chose Patio Project IPA from Beachwood Brewing as the test subject after picking it for the beer shopping list post last month.
As you can see from the above photo, it was canned up on 8/1/24. For this review, the first can was tasted on 8/16/24. Can two was opened on 9/5/24.
It is light in body and also has a light citrus taste to it. The bitterness is medium low but still easily noticeable. No weird or off flavors detected. Still a really tasty session IPA.
In honor of fresh hop season, this month it is all about hop varietals. Three choices filled with all sorts of different hops to feed the bitterness that we all seek.
Everywhere Beer Co. Branching Out – 5.6% – Modern Pilsner hopped with Krush (586), Nectaron, and Nelson
Beachwood Brewing Lupulin Lounge – 7.1% – IPA hopped with Citra, Strata, Idaho 7 Cryo and Columbus
Green Cheek Beer Co. Playing It Loud – 8.6% – DDH Hazy DIPA hopped with Citra and sprinkled with Mosaic, Motueka and Strata
Our third round of Fest Biers brings a duo that you won’t have to seek to far afield to taste…
To the left is Lighter-Hosen from Far Field in Lawndale and next to it, also with a fancy mug is Seek Beer Co.s Fest Bier.
And how about a pair from R.T. Rogers Brewing Co. as well….
Angel City Brewery has a new beer release with a fruit that is not often seen in beer (or cider for that matter), pears.
Sounds both refreshing and autumnal at the same time.
I like all sorts of collaborations as is evidenced by the amount of posts tagged with that title but I do really like cross country versions like this Sam and Schneider one…
Samuel Adams meets SchneiderWeisse for a Fest Weisse offering called Beer Garden, which is a great name by the way.
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.
If you need more than one day to properly fest, well Benny Boy Brewing has a whole weekend planned for you and whomever holds your stein for you….
