Beer Bloggers Conference – Day Three


Drinking Flying Fish Exit 4 and listening to Brewvana talk about his view on what beer blogging should be and how he got craft beer on mutiple media outlets.

Before that 8 different “co-workers” gave presentations on what they know about. I have had a lot of great craft beer but I have learned more.

Check out the Facebook posts and Twitter streams to see the minute by minute breakdown. Type in Beer Bloggers Conference and start reading. More detailed cogent posts to follow when I have processed it all.

And a bazillion photos too.

Without You….

Evil Twin and Mikkeller have some serious creativity. Though the label is boring the name of this new sour ale is pretty cool.

I am hoping that 12%, the importer can bring the beers over here in good condition. And then I hope they can make it to LA.

Would be cool to have a Mikkeller. Evil Twin taste off.

Beer Bloggers Conference – Day Two


A long but educational day. Many speakers from blogging communities to sensory info. Oh and Jamie Floyd from Ninkasi dressed as Darth Vader. And I captured two Six Points beer. AND my new favorite beer from Breakside. Gin barrel double wit. Just wow. AND a sneak of Jubel 2011. More on that and The Love of Beer movie later in the week.

In the history books

I may be in Portland, networking with a great group of beer bloggers but that won’t stop me from thinking about the LA beer scene….

Late last month, KCET.org posted an informative slice of Los Angeles history focusing on breweries.

It got me to thinking that we need to get our current LA craft beer boosters and artists to pay a little homage to our past. The easiest way being to make some lagers that call back the old beer names like Eastside and Brew 102. Or maybe make a Zobelein & Maier session ale.

Or to take it one step further, take our new pop-up beer gardens to some of these historical brewing spots and have a history professor talk about the site and and the stories of brewing from the early days of the City of Angels.

I am sure there are some stories to tell.

Wirtshaus

I was checking out Daniel Drennon’s latest beer escapade and came across Wirtshaus in another section of the LA Weekly.

So LA is getting a German themed restaurant to compete with the Red Lion. I noticed that Gaffel was on the list of their beers as well. You might just see a review of this place in the coming months.

Nebraska Brewery # 2 – Nebraska Brewing

I first encountered Nebraska Brewing at the GABF a couple years back. I saw a few people in their logo’d shirts and I thought to myself that their brewery must be an oasis to thirsty Nebraskans.

Fast forward to today and you can get some Nebraska Brewing offerings in Portland and even here in LA. I’ve already alerted you to the new Toasted Barn beer. So let’s take a look at two other offerings…..

Hop God
“A beautiful golden crossbreed of a Belgian Tripel and a West Coast IPA. A remarkable explosion on the palate with spiciness, tropical fruit, and a firm citrus bitterness that will leave you begging for more!”

Itty Bitty Betty
“Producing Black Betty results in some significantly sweet spent grains, so we decided that instead of giving it all to the pigs, we’d extract some of that goodness and make a smaller beer out of it. By using different yeast and hops, we created a nice sweet stout that really stands apart from Black Betty.”

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