Open Letter to the Mayor of Los Angeles

Your Honor,

The L.A. Times basketball sportswriter corresponds with Donald Sterling about the state of the Clippers and in the same spirit I am writing to you.

Why is it, that…
San Diego has Karl Strauss Brewery
Orange County has The Bruery
Pasadena has Craftsman Brewing
Santa Barbara has Telegraph Brewing
Sacramento has Rubicon Brewing
San Francisco has Anchor Steam
even Santa Rosa has Russian River Brewing

…and Los Angeles has ? Why is it that the premier city of Southern California has no major brewery and no football team. My guess is that someone or something is standing in the way.

We have two award winning home brew clubs. A burgeoning beer bar scene and a discriminating food culture. We have all the ingredients and yet I do not see a brewery. Why is that?

I know I repeated myself there but I am genuinely confused. Portland has tons of breweries and new ones opening each month. There are (3) off the 78 freeway north of San Diego and that is not a long freeway.

I urge you to find out where the problem is. We seem to have plenty of liquor stores. How about losing some and adding a brewpub instead?

Now is the time to encourage people to chase entrepreneurial dreams. Not to stand in the way and hold ideas back.

Sean Inman