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I am a football fan. Rooting for the Timbers, Thorns and Chelsea and looking to see which Irish team to pledge allegiance to. Combine that with beer and you might find me at the London outpost of Classic Football Shirts where there is a little beer counter to the side of the store. Add in a bookshop and I would never leave and be dead broke.
Each time that I visit the Celebrate Oregon Beer website, more reading material is posted. The latest bit are summaries of the brewing history for each of the regions of Oregon. This LINK is for the first in the series, The Oregon Coast to get you started.
Ambitious Ales will be celebrating their sixth year in Bixby Knolls. It is a lovely spot to sip a beer and people watch. Set aside the weekend of March 21-23 to check out the action.
Los Angeles Ale Works has risen up to their 8th anniversary at the original Hawthorne location and on March 8th, they will mark the ocho milestone.
Beer festivals do not have the same luster as in the glory days of years past but one way to combat fest fatigue is to try out one outside of your town with breweries less known. And for Angelenos, we have the neighbor to the south who have plenty of festivals that can provide a jolt of the new.
Such as the North Park Beer Fest
Just from a quick glance at the breweries attending, I see Goal and Hopworks and quite a few others that could make this a cool event.
Not a Star Wars droid but the 7th Anniversary for R.T. Rogers Brewing up in Sierra Madre.
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.
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.
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.
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.