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Casual Friday – Dry River & Kinetic


The L.A. County Brewers Guild is impressive in where they can combine craft beer with diverse events and Casual Fridays at Walt Disney Concert Hall is one to check out. I have posted about this program before and it is back on Friday, March 31 with a duo of composers and breweries,

Mozart and Haydn are on the concert bill and after the music has died down you can enjoy a complimentary beer tasting from Dry River Brewing and Kinetic Brewing along with members of the LA Phil.
Check out the link HERE for more info.

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Beer Talk Amidst the Books

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Time to head to the library and learn about craft beer in Los Angeles. And you won’t even need to crack open a book. The Culinary Historians of Southern California (no, I had not heard of them either) have scheduled a panel on the evolution of brewing in Los Angeles inside the Central Library in their Mark Taper Auditorium.

Joining moderator John Verive of the Los Angeles Times will be representatives from Smog City Brewing, Strand Brewing Co., Dry River Brewing and Lucky Luke Brewing Co on Saturday, October 8th at 10:30am to hear us talk Craft Beer: past, present and future!

Here’s the full description from the CHSC, “Welcome to a thirst-quenching panel discussion! Once a barren desert for local beer, in the last seven years Los Angeles County has grown into a craft beer hub for Southern California, finally catching up to more established brewing scenes in San Diego, Santa Barbara and Northern California. Dedicated to fostering a sense of community and local pride, our brewers are bringing high-quality artisanal products into a hyper-local market.”

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Review – Botanical IPA from Dry River

This is my first IPA from the Dry River crew and I am excited to see what these botanicals add/subtract and how they have interpreted the style.
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Bouquet is a “barrel fermented IPA “dry hopped” with locally foraged botanicals.” Which the brewer believes imparts spice, orange peel, grapefruit, white pepper, clove and sweet citrus.

Let’s see if it does…..
I will have to respectfully disagree about the IPA but this is made up for in the botanical part of the name. This is way spicy. Murky brown with a big earthy aroma to it. Cinnamon, nutmeg and just damn winter ale like to me. Like walking into a spice purveyor. More saison like to me. I am even catching some really rough pineapple notes too. But that is a deep cut.

I really like this but it is quite different from the “normal” beers out there.

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Dry River Flowing

Don’t call it a soft opening per se since Dry River won’t have a tap room but the event at Elysian was a premiere for the very soon to be flowing Boyle Heights brewery.
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Three beers were on tap to show the range of brewer Naga Reshi. Starting with Lady Roja which is their gateway beer. No blonde or amber here though. This beer has tamarind and sea salt which added to the predominant taste of apple makes for a complex beer. A portion of this batch is also aging in wine barrels which should add yet another layer of flavor. Future batches will have an increased tamarind level which I think should balance the beer a bit more. There is a touch of sour at the end but I would not have called it a sour.

Copper Witch was # 2 in the line-up card and described as a hoppy farmhouse ale. It was my least favorite of the trio. It was a little thin and too minerally for my taste and the hops were earthy but didn’t add enough to make this beer truly run. The yeast used is a combo of Saison and other wild yeasts that the brewer has been cultivating so this is much more an American farmhouse and not Belgian/French.

The last offering was my favorite. A Wheat Wine that was poured young and without a key change from when it gets bottled in time for New Years celebrations. Champagne yeast will be added to again push this beer into a new direction. There was a solid malt base here with some cinnamon spice notes. It tasted like a winter beer for sure.
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Dry River doesn’t have huge capacity so your best bet to ensure that you get to sample their offerings is by joining their Collectors Club. That way you get three beers each quarter plus heads-up when new beers are being offered. As well as other membership perks.

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Dry No More

Beer is brewing at Dry River and it looks like October 2015 will be the opening month for this long awaited entrant to the Los Angeles brewing scene.

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Their Kickstarter backers got info on a possible soft opening / first beer release as well as a Halloween party that will be the big coming out party for them.  As a reminder, due to where they are located and the Byzantine requirements of our fair city, Dry River will not have a tasting room.  Rather they will do pop-up events and tap take-overs plus a bottle club which will be the best way to ensure a constant flow of their beer.

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Dry River Brewing UPDATE

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It looks like for all you Dry River backers and craft beer fans that happenings are afoot!  Here is the latest Kickstarter update from the (hopefully) soon to come brewery!

“We’ve been busy-busy-busy since our last update, pursuing locations, working with lawyers and accountants, preparing to raise money for the build-out, all the fun parts of opening a brewery… And we’ve hit a major milestone and we wanted you to be the first ones to hear – we hired our brew-master!

Naga Reshi comes to us from Wynwood Brewing in Miami, but he’s been brewing professionally all over the world since 2007. Brazil, Holland, you name it – he’s probably brewed there. And he brings tons of Green brewing cred to the table. He designed, built, managed and sold a production brewery in Brazil that ran entirely off of solar power! Plus his recipes are super creative and he’s awesome at using local ingredients, like he did with his barrel-aged jungle-fruit Lambic series in Brazil…

We have a proposal in on a great space, right on the river, so we hope we’ll have a positive update there soon as well.

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Dry River Brewing

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1st – Check out this Kickstarter video

2nd Find their beer before anyone else at these events:
JULY 5    Grand Performances – Nina Simone
JULY 13  NELA Art Gallery Night
JULY 14  Permaculture Networking at The Shed

If everyone pitches in, we could be having their beers by the end of the year!