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Benny Boy Brewing is starting up a Cask Night. With former MacLeod’s brewer Stephen Reeves now on board they are setting up a proper beer engine for their first cask a Scottish Ale, named after the brewer.
So, if you are one of the dwindling number of American cask ale fans then head to Benny Boy on November 7th for a sessionable 4% ale. If the cask kicks quick, there could be more nights.
If you have not been to a Benny Boy Brewing and Cider AppleFest, well, it is a true indicator of the Los Angeles fall season finally being, well, fall.
There is apple pressing, cider slushies and food vendors that will keep you sitting for hours.
Below are a smattering of Oktoberfest parties going down here in the Los Angeles area in as many different neighborhoods as I could find…
9/12 to 9/14
Smog City – Torrance
9/13
El Segundo Brewing – El Segundo
Five Point Five – El Segundo
9/20
Frogtown – Los Angeles
Los Angeles Ale Works – Hawthorne
8one8 – Canoga Park
Feathered Serpent – La Puente
Claremont Craft Ales – Claremont
9/20 and 9/21
Enegren – Moorpark
Smog City – Torrance
Benny Boy – Eastside Los Angeles
9/26
Audio Graph – DTLA
9/27 and 9/28
Lawless – NoHo
Who doesn’t like a team up? Paperback Brewing has joined forces with Benny Boy Cider so that they are now pouring cider. It is a special collaboration on draft in their Glendale tasting room.
At the end of February, Benny Boy Brewing debuted at the Echo Park Farmers Market. They will be there in alternating weeks so on 3/14 they return.
Then 3/28 and so on. You get it. So get some cider and some good tasty apples too.
Time do fly. Benny Boy and their ciders and beers just off the 5 freeway will be turning three this March and they do know how to throw a party at their backyard, so save the date. I do not know how well beer and bats will mix though.
I am a big proponent of zagging instead of zigging when it comes to brewery merchandise. There is enough shirts, hats and glasses out there.
And for a while, when bottles of glass were in vogue, there was a definite uptick in candles in sawed off bottles. Most were not beer scented so I did not have much interest.
But maybe this candle from Stone Brewing might make a good gift alongside some Old Guardian barleywine as a pairing idea…
You could also check out the apple tinged candles at Benny Boy Brewing and Cider right here in Los Angeles. They have actual dried apples in them and they have them in various cider “flavors”.
Now Los Angeles rarely sees actual winter but Benny Boy Brewing and Cidery has our back anyway with Winter’s Hug, an Ice Cider made with Newtown Pippin and Dabinett apples. “Ice Cider is made from sweet juice extracted from frozen cider. This special method produces a higher alcohol content than traditional cider, and the result is a lovely, premium, barrel-aged, dessert-style cider.”
Sounds good for even a SoCal winter.
Benny Boy Brewing and Cidery is going all Apple Fest in November with all things cider and apples and community. I went last year and seeing the people pressing cider and the smell of cinnamon in the air despite being so close to the 5 Freeway is very cool and a marker for the Los Angeles seasonal year.
If you need more than one day to properly fest, well Benny Boy Brewing has a whole weekend planned for you and whomever holds your stein for you….
