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A Socially Distanced Toast

The Bruery is trying to keep the spirit of the toast alive, if just over the interwebs with their “digital drinking experience” You head over to YouTube to watch along with Patrick Rue starting at 5pm.

Here is the tasting line-up:

  • Handy Man – Dry-hopped blonde saison ale age in oak foeders with Buddha Hand citron. Tasting room exclusive.
  • Ruekeller Helles – Traditional Bavarian style Helles. Tasting rooms, online and in stores.
  • Relax [It’s Just A Hazy IPA] – Hazy IPA featuring Citra, Centennial, Simcoe and Amarillo hops, imparting fruity, tropical and citrusy notes to complement the round, soft mouthfeel. Tasting rooms, online and in stores.
  • Bakery: Boysenberry – Imperial stout aged in bourbon barrels w/ boysenberries, cinnamon, & natural vanilla flavor. Tasting room exclusive.
  • Huckle & Flow – Imperial stout with huckleberries, vanilla, and cinnamon. Tasting room exclusive.
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Melting

13 locations across California will be tapping both the 2020 version of Power Plant the notorious Triple IPA from El Segundo Brewing as well as a Hazy, Radioactive Fallout.

Thankfully, Glendale will be covered by We’re Pouring. And on the 17th of the month, I will drop in for a pour. You can find more information, right HERE.

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Happy Thanksgiving!!!

I will be sitting on a couch, not watching football, nope Thanksgiving is time to binge some TV and this year, the wife and I will be eating turkey and watching….

Have a great and restful weekend. And give thanks to all the brewers who make the good stuff all through the year.

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Vintersaga

Move over hard seltzer, I bring you the next big thing in beverages. Vintersaga.  “A Swedish-style festive drink, carbonated malt and hops flavored beverage”. Straight from the Ikea marketplace of primarily lingonberries. This winter seasonal does not have a good aroma.  Off- putting cherry cola would be my guess.  First taste is straight up cough medicine. Woo boy this is sweet. The ingredients list says natural hops flavor and natural barley malt flavors but neither is in much evidence.  I think that even kids would blanch at this amount of sugar and ask for water afterwards.

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Dovetail

This looks like a fun beer from the Woodwork Series from Eagle Rock for whenever cold weather decides to grace Los Angeles with its presence, “Dovetail is an oud bruin inspired sour ale, with notes of semi-sweet chocolate, unripe plums, and black cherries. This complex yet smooth dark ale will pair handsomely with robust holiday feasts.”

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Urban Elective

Some classes in college would have improved with a beer in hand and some classes, well Physics for Poets tried but I still was not going to understand it all that well.

Now if you are in Los Angeles, you can pick an interesting topic or pick an interesting brewery thanks to Urban Elective. Both Boomtown and Indie Brewing will be hosting a six week course.

You can learn: The Dark History of Los Angeles at Boomtown Brewery from Joan Renner or The Skeptical Cinephile: Investigating Science in Cinema at Indie Brewing Company from Dave Farina.

The Fall Quarter starts on September 9th.

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July United


The next iteration of the DTLA Brewers United Festival, # 4.0, is scheduled for Sunday, July 22nd from 4-8pm at the Triangle parking lot outside of Angel City Brewery in the Arts District.

Three items of note to help you decide to buy a ticket:
1. Each brewery will also showcase a themed fruit beer as well, perfect for the summer weather.
2. 100% of the proceeds benefit the Keep A Breast Foundation, a nonprofit breast cancer organization.
3. Highland Park – Chinatown has been added to the mix

Your list of breweries is this: Participating breweries include Angel City Brewery, Arts District Brewing Co, Boomtown Brewery, Dry River Brewing, Highland Park Brewery, Indie Brewing Company, Iron Triangle Brewing, and Mumford Brewing.

Here are you ticket details, General admission tickets are $45 and include unlimited tastings and commemorative glassware. Designated driver tickets are also available for $15. Guests must be 21+ to attend. RSVP and purchase tickets HERE.

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Quick Pass over 2017

The 2017 sales and volume data has been released by The Brewers Association (BA) and most people are going to probably see one number the 5% rise in volume and start to get nervous or gloom and doomy.

I won’t be shooting rainbows myself but that volume number and the retail dollar value growth of 8% are closer to what we will see going forward. There was a tremendous lack of small breweries even in 2013. Now that void created by consolidation has been filled to a great extent. There is still room for new breweries but the heady days of double digit growth is now part of #independent beer history and perhaps future.

That 5% looks even better when compared to the overall -1% in the total beer market. The other “good” number is that the closing rate of breweries was 2.6%. My hunch is that that number will grow in next year’s report if the Green Flash situation is any indicator. We may be getting closer to finding our number of breweries equilibrium. Once that magic point is found, decisions can be made from a point of firmer ground. If you know that there are X amount of breweries, then questions from how much hops are needed to how to distribute can be answered with more certainty. Remember that business hates unpredictability.

You can check out the handy infographic for the marquee statistics.