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March 14, 2013September 11, 2018

Mulholland Brewing

Looks like another brewery is in the planning stages for us in the City of Angels and it is taking the iconic name that has quite a history in our city, Mulholland Brewing.

Here is more information from their website, “Mulholland Brewing Company is a microbrewery and taproom opening on the westside of Los Angeles. Our mission is to promote and celebrate the culture of Los Angeles through craft beer. We’re native Angelinos bringing over 20 years of brewing experience to our business and are excited to share our products and our ideas with the communities in which we live. We strongly believe in our city’s coming renaissance and aspire to brew beer that reflects our unique climate, culture, and cuisine.”

When more information becomes available, I will pass it on.

March 14, 2013September 11, 2018

The NEW Bootlegger’s

Bootlegger’s Brewery has closed down their Richman location after five years of brewing. And now the page turns to the….

NEW TASTING ROOM AND PILOT BREWERY
“Bootlegger’s is proud to finally announce the opening of our brand new tasting room and pilot brewery in Downtown Fullerton. After a long wait and many late nights of hard work, the tasting room will be open…
…. at 130 S. Highland, Fullerton , CA (on the corner of Santa Fe and Highland). It has 40 taps, improved restrooms, more seating, a large outdoor patio, and will be the home of our pilot brewery. Parking is just a short walk and is available at the Opus Bank parking lot at the other end of the alley, or at the large parking structure on Santa Fe. We are now open 7 days a week, and after this weekend our regular hours will be from 11a.m. to 10p.m. Sunday through Thursday and will stay open ’til midnight on Friday and Saturday.”

So take down the coming soon part of the banner!

March 13, 2013September 11, 2018

FoodGPS Teaser – Bloggers at Firestone

Thanks to the largesse of the folks at Firestone-Walker, our humble band of L.A. Beer Bloggers caught a bus at Union Station early on a Saturday morning and made the trek to Paso Robles to partake in the beer culture created by David Walker, Matt Brynildson and the rest of the F-W crew.

I will use words in tomorrow’s FoodGPS post to paint a summarized picture of the weekend, but here are the final set of photos from that epic journey….

THANK YOU FIRESTONE-WALKER FOR THE TREMENDOUS RED CARPET TREATMENT!

March 13, 2013September 11, 2018

The Dudes’

From the 15th to the 17th, up and down the coast you can get your first taste of a new Torrance based brewery.

The Dudes’ Brewing Co. will be at Naja’s in Redondo Beach, Simmzy’s in Manhattan Beach and the Tavern on Main in El Segundo.

As more information pops up on the interwebs and/or I get my first taste of their beers, I will add more posts about the 3rd of four breweries in Torrance.

March 11, 2013September 11, 2018

Video Review – Midnight Sun Kodiak Brown

March brings two video reviews of brown ales and we start with a canned version from Alaska. How it ended up in sunny L.A., I do not know but let’s see what Kodiak from Midnight Sun tastes like….

The brewery describes it this way, “Rugged yet smooth, Kodiak Brown Ale balances caramel and roasted malts with enticing Northwest hops. Perle and Willamette hops accent without overpowering this American brown ale’s intrepid maltiness. The result is uniquely delicious.”

March 11, 2013September 11, 2018

Journey to the Center of the Barrel – Part 3

The last stop on the grand tour of Firestone-Walker that the brewery sent us humble L.A. Beer Bloggers on was in Buellton at the new in 2013, Barrelworks.

And at this stop, after another grand lunch with some really fresh and hoppy Pale 31, we had to do some (gasp!), actual work. OK, that was bit dramatic but we did get to try our hand at blending a sour beer.

We were given four beers to play with and let loose to create our own sour masterpiece.

My partner-in-crime for this experiment was Craig Berry from LA Beer Blog . We found a free spot and had to figure out how to blend the following:

Component #1 – Saison-Lil with Brett and Lacto in from an Opus One barrel

Component #2 – Saison with just Brett from a Viognier wine barrel

Component #3 – Saison with Brett and Lacto from a Viognier wine barrel

Component #4 – Bretta Weisse from a retired Union barrel

We then had to find our favorite by blending different percentages of each beer. Since I am a novice at this, it was a bit like playing Battleship. Guessing which beer should be in lower amounts and which beer needed more and then having to go back and trying again.

We came up with five different blends and liked the last couple attempts better so we were learning fast. But more importantly, I now know how hard it must be to do this and I have even more appreciation for “Sour” Jim who heads up the program. To figure out which blend is best is not easy.

March 10, 2013September 11, 2018

Tennessee Brewery # 1 – Saw Works

Our first stop in the Volunteer state is Saw Works Brewing Company of Knoxville. Saw Works started life as Marble City in 2010 but has, as they put it, “hit the re-set button” and are now under a new name and housed in old Wallace Saw Works building.

Their current rotation includes a brown ale in an English style that, “reflects the chocolate malts as it first rolls across your tongue. This quickly changes as the dark toffee flavors begin to play with the spicy and earthy hop characteristics.”

Second up is their English Pale Ale with enough hops to satisfy an American palate. It has a malty profile and just enough woody or lightly floral hops for balance.

You can take a brewery tour and if you are a member of the Century Harvest Farm you can pick up your grass fed, hormone free beef and then get a beer. (Beer makes strange and wonderful bedfellows).

March 10, 2013September 11, 2018

Is it over-rated?

File this under “beer names that make me chuckle”. Surly Brewing does some impressive beers that I wish I saw more often in my ‘fridge and this one might make for an interesting flight alongside some West Coast IPA’s that might have inflated ratings.

March 9, 2013September 11, 2018

Journey to the Center of the Barrel – Part 2

Firestone-Walker ain’t what it used to be. It’s bigger. My last visit to both their Paso Robles brewery and the Taproom and restaurant in Buellton was many years ago. I had heard about the changes and the new equipment and the addition of Barrelworks but I was not prepared for the scope of the expanded footprint of their entire operation.

They have added space everywhere on what is fast becoming a Firestone-Walker dominated stretch of land just off the 101. They have a huge restaurant where you can get the Central Coast Locals Only beer, 805. They have warehouse space for their “traditional” barrel aging that you see in such releases as their anniversary beer. And these large tanks are another (albeit large) sign of the changes taken place.

The brewery has been tricked out as well as expanded. Brewmaster Matt Brynildson now has new toys like a wet mill which maximizes yield from the grains while using less energy and added an automated hop doser. Which will make the bitterness you get from Union Jack even more consistent.

2012 proved to be a major year of growth for Firestone-Walker and it was great to get a tour of the whole facility and see all the changes firsthand.

March 8, 2013September 11, 2018

Strand in Bottles

It is getting easier than ever to get your favorite LA craft beers in bottles! El Segundo and Beachwood are now available and Monkish may be following suit soon and Strand Brewing will be jumping into the game mid-month.

And you can grab some of these handsome bottles at their tap room this Saturday March 16th from 12-8

the following Beers will be available in bottles:

24th Street Pale Ale
Atticus IPA
Beach House Amber Ale
Second Sleep Imperial Stout

*Bottles are for take out only, same as a growler

And while you are there you can also sip on the re-released White Sand Double IPA on draft that day and/or sample a Special Cask of Oaked Second Sleep Russian Imperial Stout tapped at Noon.