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Hailing from Summerville, SC is…
…Oak Road Brewery, our last featured “fast growing” brewery from 2018. I don’t talk a lot about South Carolina beer but here is what I would order from this brewery…
Elch – Munich Dunkel Lager
Summerville – Lager
Coastal Carolina Evening – Coffee Porter
Contra Code – IPA
Hope you are ready for pranks today. I fell for one briefly already before catching myself. Hopefully, the beers you have this month are not pranks.
~ e-visits to three breweries that made the Fastest Growing Breweries like Werner Brewing of Tillamook, Oregon, Humble Sea of Santa Cruz, California and Oak Road Brewery of Summerville, South Carolina
~ special featured reviews of Orange County beers since it is there month for beer week.
~ 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 The Milkman by Anna Burns
~ I will tap the Firkin and give my no holds barred opinion on the craft beer world.
Here are two events to get your April started in the Los Angeles craft beer world:
1) April 9th – Tuesday’s at Tonys features the beers of Enegren Brewing
2) April 20th – Smog City Anniversary Party
The Brewers Association releases their annual, Fastest Growing Breweries List. I went down the list with us Angelenos in mind and found two breweries at the tail end of the top 50.
Frogtown Brewery which is tucked down side streets just off of Fletcher near the 5 Freeway landed at 43 and then right behind it is a Long Beach brewery, but not the one that I or you probably expected. Dutch’s BrewHouse.
I have visited Frogtown a couple of times and they can their blonde and IPA’s but I did not peg them for having had a big growth spurt but then again, I had not heard of most of the breweries on the list which probably speaks to the fact that the really small are enjoying the biggest gains in the current low growth time.
I guess I will need to add Dutch to my list in addition to Ambitious Ales for my next Long Beach visit and see what they are doing right.