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A Podcast & A Beer – Shift Meal from The Ringer Food

The Ringer likes to hide mini podcast series inside an established one.  And so you might have missed Shift Meal hosted by Danny Chau.

Over four episodes, Chau talks BBQ in Los Angeles with the best the City of Angels has to offer (which is a lot, this city has lots of good ‘cue).  It will make you desperately hungry so prepare accordingly.  And it makes me hope that Chau will cover pizza and burgers at some point.  

For beer, I suggest that you find yourself some good winter bocks or dopplebocks.  Something suitably big and malty that will not be cowed into submission by burnt ends or dinosaur ribs. Maybe Figueroa Mountain’s 14th Anniversary rum barrel-aged helles bock. 

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Diverse and BTS

Each year, the North American Guild of Beer Writers works with craftbeer.com

to publish beer stories through the Guild’s Diversity in Beer Writing Grant The first of the year seven stories is from Christine Ma-Kellems and explores fermented beverages and Korean musical phenomenon BTS. 

The Diversity Grant is supported by craftbeer.com, the Brewers Association, and Allagash Brewing.  Thanks to all three.

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Sean Suggests for December 2024

Collaborations x 3 this month as we travel around the Golden State from San Diego to Los Angeles to Sacramento via new hops and old recipes.

MacLeod / Tomm Carroll Oat Malt Stout – 4.6% – “this sub-style, which was made with malted oats (along with malted barley), not oat flakes or oatmeal, was first brewed by Maclay & Co., LTD of Alloa, Scotland around 1894.”

Smog City / Pizza Port PC Load Letter White IPA – 6.5% – “Packed with a rock-solid punch of grapefruit and zesty yuzu, juicy hits of peach and apricot, and a smooth herbal backbone, it’s the ultimate cure for a case of the Mondays.”

Urban Roots / Societe Fun Fare IPA – 7.1% – “stacked with Krush, Krush Cryo, Krush Dynaboost, Citra, and Nectaron hops, so expect your taste buds to be flying first class.”

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Buzzed 24

Each year Smog City Brewing releases Buzzworthy a “bourbon barrel-aged honey stout brewed with over 600 pounds of raw buckwheat honey…”

Two things have changed this year.  First it’s in cans and there is a special red wine barrel-aged variant for 2024.  And you know that Smog City does barrel-aged variants quite well.

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9 Brews in the Yard

My lucky number is 9 so whenever a brewery reaches that milestone, I consider it a good omen.  And Brewyard Beer Co. right here in Glendale has hit that mark before the end of the year and has a multitude of plans for the special day.  

I would also consider attending a good omen.