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Each year the Orange County Brewers Guild scare up the Brewers Mash in October for local beers and frights.
The frightful fest is on October 26th this year at the Heritage Museum of Orange County. So get your costumes ready for some trick-or-treating and maybe some spooky special releases.
Just down the coastline, Brouwerij West has a late summer Pilsner out now that they brewed up with Altamont Brew works, the resulting light beer is Live Animals and is a 5.5% West Coast Pils.
San Pedro has some big waterfront plans in the pipeline in what is called the West Harbor Development ( see one of the proposed renderings below ) and some possible tenants are either onboard or linked to it at this point.
From the craft beer perspective, San Diego based Mike Hess Brewing is one of these tenants which means that you might be able to hit up both Brouwerij West and Mike Hess in a day down by ocean.
Your Beer Friend which has themed beer packages to buy throughout the year is now debuting their craft beer trailer. A 1955 trailer is now a rolling bar with six taps in it.
They are now accepting reservations for the trailer for events in Los Angeles and Orange County.
Every once in a while, I like to give some flowers to label designs that show extra effort, are fun and just flat out rise above the cut.
Burgeon Beer Co. takes a diner ticket approach to Order Up.
There are loads of little details. The color is spot on and there is even a binder clip as well. All with enough space and room for the hop bill and the charitable causes logos too. Works on all levels.
In my reviews of N/A beer, I often lament that an IPA should be easy. Just throw all the hops at it. That often does not work. I currently hold the position that an N/A bourbon should be straightforward as well. Get some oak notes, get some vanilla.
Let’s see what Spiritless and their distilled non-alcoholic spirit for Bourbon cocktails, Kentucky 74 does…
I can smell a load of spice coming off of this. Is it Fireball? There is also a strange secondary aroma as well. Granted, before I get too far. I am not cocktailing, just tasting straight. Very thin and more spiced like a rum. How this applies to a traditional Bourbon cocktail eludes me. Glad I didn’t spend the $35 bucks for a bottle.
You go around the sun enough times and you run into everything. Even a biegarten in Munich that serves only alcohol free beer.
Click the Facebook link HERE for a short video.
Personally, one spot in an entire large city should not worry German brewers and instead should make them look at their offerings to see what they can do better.
Do you eschew digital notes? Prefer old fashioned pen and paper?
Field Notes has teamed with Solemn Oath Brewing on a beer and a notebook. SoCal will not see the beer but you can get the memo book.
You can buy one HERE.
According to the Craft Maltsters Guild Craft Malt Week has bloomed into Craft Malt Month for September of this year.
Events and collaborations can be found on the official calendar at craftmaltmonth.comso you can find malt forward beers and maybe even learn a little bit about the world of craft malt.
The good thing and bad thing about having an outpost of Creature Comforts Brewing in DTLA is that some beers are Georgia only.
Here is to hoping that Tsundoku a Japanese Rice Lager makes the jump to us. Because what the name means (literally the collecting of books that you haven’t read, however it’s concept is rooted in a continuous act of curiosity.” is as cool as one of the featured ingredients Carolina Gold rice from Tidewater Farms.