Highland Park Brewery is bring a bit of the Bay to their Chinatown location with…
…I have tasted beers from 3 of the 5 and maybe I will be able to tuck in and have half pints from those 2 missing ones.
SF / LA / HPB
Since 1984
This month I have been focused on new Oregon breweries but let’s flip that around and head over to the great New School Beer site to read HERE about the oldest breweries in Oregon.
Glad to see that Goldwn Valley from my college town of McMinnville is in the top 12.
Arrowing Downtown
Arrow Lodge’s DTLA outpost will be celebrating their 2nd anniversary on the 15th with…..
If I had even a tiny whisper of artistic skill, I would try my hand at the label art contest.
Return Visit – Mt. Lowe Brewing
Ever since I read the distress post from Mt. Lowe Brewing in Arcadia, I wanted to go back and re-visit. On a recent gray, rain threatening Saturday, I braved the always sluggish 210 Freeway to have a few beers to see what was up.
And I saw pitcher after pitcher going to the Pasadena Rugby Club who apparently are cool with no aroma, flat beer which hopefully helps this at risk brewery out. I tried out a coffee version of their Hills Are Alive IPA which I quite liked. A nice balance of coffee notes to hops with neither getting the upper hand. The two following tasters were less successful and I think I may have gotten the same beer twice and not two different tasters. Though they were filled right up to the brim.
The beertenders were working hard and there was a steady line to order so maybe folks are in supportive help mode which is good to see.
FWIBF 2025
Tomorrow, tickets will go on sale and then quickly sell-out for the 2025 Firestone Walker Invitational Beer Festival and this year brewery “lineup includes 15 first-time breweries and marks the most ever for what is renowned as “the best beer fest in the West.”
Below is the graphic with the brewery list and it makes me happy to see so many names that I do not recognize at all. One can trust the selection process so much at this point that you quickly enter giddy phase just to see what is up with that brewery named Uncharted.
Firestone Walker will also be releasing the Wandering Don IPA. A “limited-edition official 2025 fest beer made in collaboration with Odell Brewing Company in Ft. Collins, Colorado.
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. PST, if you have fast fingers and faster wi-fi.
Made(West) it to 9
Ventura’s MadeWest Brewing Company has reached their so set sail on February 8th.
2 22 and 2
AleSmith Brewing is bringing back their Coffee & Beer Festival for a second year and holding it on February 22nd.
Expect to taste the combined talent of brewers and roasters when this event caffeines into gear.
Awarding San Diego
When craft beer fans in Los Angeles make the highway trek to San Diego, you need a good reason to go or a marquee event to attend and I think I just might have one for you….
…courtesy of San Diego Beer News. If nothing else, there will be a happy atmosphere around.
Radiance x 4
Radiant Brewing in Anaheim is going to spend a full weekend celebrating their 4th Anniversary
Friday, January 31st through Sunday, February 2nd will find “new beer releases, live music, brewer’s karaoke, a birthday treat baking competition, the return of Sunny Meals, and plenty of cameos and goodies from friends.” Plus their special anniversary beer, All The Things We’ve Done.
RSVP for free HERE
Pale February
Count me as a big fan of festivals that populate those smaller niches and Pale Fest from Institution Ale Co. easily falls into that category.
Keep up with their social media to get the date and ticket details.