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It is a bit easier to pedal when you have had just N/A beer and you can also support cancer research as well when you buy…
…from Athletic Brewing. Which the N/A producer describes as “aromas of orange, grapefruit, apricot, and peach surge through this medium-bodied IPA, balanced by notes of a pine-fresh finish.” And while you are there, check out the other limited edition beers they have.
I have not written about the terrible fires that popped up seemingly everywhere earlier this month in the Los Angeles area. Mostly because it is so sad and disheartening to see such catastrophe some of it closer to where I reside in Glendale than wildfire has ever been.
And Los Angeles was already barely able to build enough as it was, especially when it comes to affordable housing for all economic levels. Now rents and home prices will push even higher than they already were.
But this is not a housing blog, though it kind of is, because the more people that can find housing at a price point that isn’t 75% of take-home pay, the more people will go out and buy good craft beer.
Anyway, the preceding paragraphs are prelude to the actual point of the fact that Common Space Brewery has stepped up to rally our remaining L.A. breweries into a special beer to help the rebuild cause, We Love LA will be showing soon up from over 50 California breweries participating and close to 10 from out of state as well, and I will be grabbing from wherever in financial support. I strongly suggest that we make this beer a complete sell-out.
Figueroa Mountain Brewing has partnered with the Santa Barbara Zoo for a series of beers celebrating a few of the special animals that you can see the next time you are up the coast from Los Angeles.
We all know that agriculture is integral to being craft beer fans so it is really good to see that Brewjeria along with Norwalk Brew House and South Central Brewing have a collaboration that benefits the United Farm Workers. It is a pineapple and mango wheat beer appearing on March 30th.
Out to the farm we go. To the California heartland and Farmers Brewing for the Winter Migration.
“Winter Migration is a Baltic porter in partnership with the California Waterfowl Association. We are really proud to brew this beer with grains from our fields that provide habitat and food for the many types of waterfowl that arrive every year.”
If you do not know by now, Smog City Brewing is REALLY community focused. Be it the California craft beer community or our climate changed world.
Their latest collaborative effort is with, Pure Project Brewing, and the , National Forest Foundation for the release of Forest Understory IPA, part of the Smog City Community Impact Series of beers. Pure Project will counter with Beneath the Canopy Murky IPA.
Every purchase of Forest Understory IPA will have a portion of the proceeds donated to the National Forest Foundation.
It is Ales for ALS season and you should be seeing the charity driven beers on shelves and taps by now and if you are in Los Angeles, there is a local option to try from Ogopogo Brewing…
Brewjeria has a Benefit Beer Release on the way. They have “teamed up with Mexicali Biennial to make a Farmhouse ale, or as we’re calling it ‘Cerveza del Campo’ with local Oro Blanco Grapefruit. This beer will be available on tap and in four packs on March 25th.”
And if you want to pair the beer art, the Mexicali Biennial recently launched a new exhibition “Land of Milk & Honey’ at the Cheech Center which is on my list of SoCal places to visit. But maybe they should call the exhibit Beer & Honey instead.
Some beers just have more meaning behind them, such is the case of The Legend from Long Beach Beer Lab.
“In memory of my Mom we are going to be brewing a special Beer, aptly named The Legend of Mrs Fried.
The LEGEND, perfectly classed, is a west coast double IPA, with copius amounts of cryo citra and simcoe, her favorite.
100% of the proceeds will go to charity to benefit Angiosarcoma Awareness and a community garden space.
In the spirit of giving we are accepting donations to charity to commemorate her life.”
Russian River Brewing has done up a one-off – new version of Defenestration.
It “is a “West meets East Coast-style IPA” with tons of juicy hop aroma and bitterness. 100% of the proceeds will be donated to humanitarian efforts to help Ukrainian refugees. Defenestration and Putin Huylo will be released in cans only at both pubs and Gift Shops around the 1st of April. A very small amount of each beer will be available online as well! Stay tuned for more updates. Thank you for joining us in supporting and helping the people of Ukraine!”