Opening July 26th is Watch Me on East PCH in Long Beach. Great news to see another women’s sports bar open in the L.A. area, now I just need one to move into Glendale.
Watch Me and Hopefully More
Beachwood 13
On Saturday, July 13th, the mighty Beachwood Brewing will be celebrating 13 years of brewing IPAs and all sorts of other styles at all five Beachwood locations. Five locations and thirteen years which is amazing. Pick your favorite spot and have fun!
A New Home for Beer History
Beer history got another place to call a potential home as The Museum of Beer and Brewing opened on May 11, appropriately enough in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The Wisconsin Historical Society spearheaded the effort and according to Gary Luther, the President Emeritus of the museum, “There is so much history in Milwaukee, not just related to great breweries like Schlitz, and Pabst, and Blatz, and Gettelman, and Miller, but also the entire industry…”
Other features include an oil painting from 1935 that shows the history of brewing and a beer hall of fame display.
MORE LABW 2024 events
I promised posts about L.A. Beer Week and here is another one with some BSP picks for the almost here celebration of L.A. beer….
All month the Stuffed Sandwich will have an L.A. brewers flight available.
Monday, June 17th – Cellador Ales
Cellador Ales has a tap takeover in Virgil Village at Alma’s Cider. And if you can’t attend that event, then…..
Wednesday, June 19th – Cellador at Southland Beer
“LA is not only blessed with great beer but is also surrounded by agriculture and a great way to showcase how those two factors meet is with Cellador’s sour beer program. We’ll have a selection of beers never before seen at Southland, and Cellador will be in the house telling the stories behind those beers.”
On tap:
Oogum Boogum – Wild Ale with Murray Limequats, Fukushu Kumquats, 2nd use late harvest Masumoto Le Grand Nectarines, vanilla & elderflower.
Raspberry Beer – Wild Ale with Raspberry, Blood Orange and 2nd-Use Nectarines and Apricots
Bottles:
15 Petals – Wild Ale with Roses and Masumoto Rose Diamond Nectarines
Nouvelle Pêche – Tart Saison with Masumoto Baby Crawford Peaches
Thursday, June 20th – Lincoln Beer Company
L.A. Beer Week Collective Brew – join the team and be a party of the brewing process. Brew with them, smell the hops and vote on your favorite and get your signature on the can.
Friday, June 21st – Farmer’s Market Bars
El Segundo Brewing and Three Weavers Brewing tag team at the historic Farmer’s Market for a one night tap takeover.
Saturday, June 22nd – Brewyard Art Festival
Come out and support your community of 20+ local artists and vendors. There will be so much good food, live music, DJ’s and of course, special beer releases!
Sunday, June 23rd – King of the Kolsch
Arts District Brewing hosts Wave 2 of their Kolsch contest between L.A. brewers starting at Noon
MacLeod at Ten
After the trials and tribulations of the last 4+ years, MacLeod Ales has hung on and has reached the double digit milestone of 10 years. That achievement alone should push you to a trip to Van Nuys to have a pint, maybe even a cask ale.
Five Tarantulas
Tarantula Hills Brewing in Thousand Oaks has hit a significant milestone. Saturday, June 22nd is their 5 Year Anniversary.
Festivity Details include: (yays and nopes are mine)
5th Anniversary Beer + Brewer’s Special Keg – yay!
Smoked Old Fashion Cocktail – yay!
El Rey Oyster Shooters – nope
Great Lineup of Live Music – OK
Birthday Sundae flavored Ice Cream – yay!
5th Anniversary Merch – OK
The Ditch
The Torrance Beermuda Triangle is gaining another tenant as HopSaint Brewing Company will be expanding to a location HopSaint @ The Ditch. I would probably ditch that moniker to match up better with the delicious beers that HopSaint puts out.
I will follow up with news about when and where when opening is closer.
An Homage to Ocho
For a week long in June, Homage Brewing and its two location will be celebrating their 8th anniversary.
“You can expect BIG strawberries, BIG tunes, RARE bier on draft, food, wines and new merch.”
1st Visit – Western Station
After driving by it many, many, many times, I finally made a point of stopping at Western Station a mostly wine (but also beer) bar in Eagle Rock.
It is a small and dim but not dark space with a group setting in front but mostly bar seating. The beer and wine lists are chalked up in frames on one side. There is also a side wall with bottles of wine and a couple coolers with a small but nicely curated choice of beers. Any place that has Duvel bottles is a step ahead of the game.
The small draft list had Highland Park, There Does Not Exist and a pair of Craftsman beers and since I had not had the famous for Los Angeles 1903 Lager in quite some time, I went with that.
File Western Station under where you want to go when you have bi-curious beverage groups. Wine fans will find something and beer fans will too.
Belgian Beer Week
I know that it was an oversight to not post Craft Beer Week which happened earlier this month and then compound the error by posting about another countries special week.
But I am going for it anyway, why, because we could all do to talk more about Belgian beer and drink more Belgian beer. And maybe do it during…..
…so walk past the cold case of IPAs, then walk past the DIPAs and go get a Belgian beer.