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That super pink and super hoppy beer is back! Eagle Rock’s Hop a Feel is a partnership beer with the Keep a Breast Foundation. It is a pink session IPA brewed with Amarillo, Simcoe, and Cascade hops + BEETS to make it PINK!
$1 from each pint sold will be donated to the foundation starting on Tuesday, September 26 from 4 PM to 10 PM.
There will be music and an art installation and even a climbing wall but what is most significant for the Glendale – Open Arts Music will be the….
⊹ CRAFT BEER GARDEN at the Alex Theatre Forecourt ⊹
which will feature:
Brewyard Beer Company LLC
Eagle Rock Brewery
MacLeod Ale Brewing Co.
Pacific Plate Brewing Co.
Might make for a great explore Glendale day. Or you could condo comparison shop, we have a lot of those.
The second half of the L.A. summer season is here, time to load up the ‘fridge with warm weather beers and start to be amazed at how early the fall seasonals are on shelves.
~ e-visits to three breweries from with the Beer Bloggers Conference landing in Milwaukee, we visit three Wisconsin breweries.
~ special featured reviews of Unibroue beers
~ Heads-Up on Los Angeles Beer Events
~ Three suggested beers to buy this month. One light, one medium and one dark
~ A Book & A Beer reads Dodge City by Tom Clavin
~ I will tap the Firkin and give my no holds barred opinion on the craft beer world.
Here are two events to get your August started in the Los Angeles craft beer world:
1) August 1st – All Your Oats Can release at Eagle Rock Brewery
2) August 3rd – Russian River Tap Take-Over at Lucky Baldwin’s Trappiste Pub location.
Eagle Rock has bottled not one but two new beers, Rubus Magnifera & Cerasus Magnifera for their ongoing Woodwork Project.
Here are the new bottles in town:
Cerasus Magnifera – Sour Pale aged with tart cherries & mangoes
Rubus Magnifera – Sour Pale aged with raspberries & mangoes
The ERB “Woodwork Project is dedicated to the venerable art of maturing beer in wooden vessels. Deeply complex and often tart, these beers are a study in balancing the inexorable effects of time, oak, and mother nature.”
The cherry/mango combo would be my first choice.
# 3 in the Day Trip series of cans from Eagle Rock Brewery will be dropping on July 18th. And it has the perfect name for those hikers who have backpacks filled with beer, :Summit Seeker American IPA is an homage to Mount Whitney, the tallest peak in the lower 48 states, and is chock full of pine, citrus and tropical notes from Galaxy, Simcoe and Summit hops.”
The fourth and final Day Trip release for 2017 will go by the name of Salvation Mountain and will be a 180 from IPA land, a prickly pear gose slotted for late August.
“All four in the series are named for an outdoor site only a short journey outside the city, and a portion of the proceeds from every can of 2 North and Salvation Mountain will benefit the national monuments they represent.”
Follow #ERBDayTrip for more about the series.
#LABW9 will have a cool new event where we can walk and eat and drink great L.A. beer….
Eagle Rock Brewery hosts this stroll from Milkfarm to Little Beast along Colorado Boulevard.
A few days have passed since one of my favorite L.A. craft beer events, the Session Fest at Eagle Rock Brewery, so time for some photos and some notes on what I tasted which is a lot harder than it seems because you can’t just start with the lowest ABV and work your way up. Plus there were so many different beers that you couldn’t just focus on hoppy or fruity.
Leeroy Light – an ode to to light beer that poured a bright yellow. Silky and smooth.
Sparkle Brew – Yup, this would be the red beer. One of the ingredients being magic. Had some berry notes to it also some butter on the back end.
Silly Rabbit – I did not get a Trix aroma off this and not much citrus either but if I saw it again, I would order it. A simple nice low hopped beer.
The Future is Unclear – This was like their recent Juice Pop IPA, just lighter. Category creator? Session NE?
Half Wit – Big on grapefruit. Pretty pink muddy color to what was called a breakfast beer. Will more Radlers hit this summer for Angeleno’s?
Anything You Can Do – This is better on nitro but tasting on cask shows how really good this beer is. I hope this gets canned
Monteverde Lemonade – The most unique beer of the Fest. Sprig of mint included is a cool touch. Like a light Limoncello.
I missed Umlaut with lager yeast. The Lupulin Denial Gruit and the Beechwood smoked beer. I was glad to to see that cask ale was offered and was quite happy to see so many beers under 4%. Such a great fest. Make plans to attend next year.
One of my favorite festivals enters its seventh year, Session Fest presented by Eagle Rock Brewery has ZERO beer over 5.0% ABV but all have 100% creativity. This year it will be held on Saturday, April 29 from noon to 6pm.
The beers are “brewed by ERB and Eagle Rock Public House employees. Paired up with brewers on the team, the whole staff gets a chance to fully experience the process of making the beers they sell in the taproom.”
Tickets include commemorative half pint glassware + 5 beer pours. $25 early bird, $30 at the door. Must be 21+ to attend.
Eagle Rock is firing up their summer can series, Day Trip with the new Mosaic Canyon which will hit shelves on March 28th.
Here are the specs from the brewery:
Your best bet to find them is at the brewery taproom.
Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day (or as I call it, stay at home night) Eagle Rock Brewery will have an additional 8 taps to their existing 8. For the non-math majors, that is 16 taps plus two beer engines for the occasional cask.
Even greater, is that because ERB has so many low ABV beers, you can try tasters of more beers! Plus it will make events like their upcoming Session Fest, all the better. Even greater-ish, it might mean that Solidarity makes its way on tap more often.