Even in a slower paced craft beer environment, I cannot keep up with all the ins and outs which is why, one night at Thee Elbow Room, a nice little restaurant and craft beer spot in Montrose, I saw something new at the top of the beer menu…

OPEN Brewing, based in Los Angeles. They seem to be located south of the Arts District in DTLA and they seem to be more about events and label art than beer though, to be fair, their “Lager crafted in collaboration with industry leader New Belgium Brewing and meticulously overseen by Award-Winning Master Brewer Ramon Tamayo”
The beer itself ticked the lager boxes and on a hot day will probably do the trick but it wasn’t memorable either. This lager occupies that vast middle ground of OK. Could have been a little slicker and maybe some extra malt character could have amped it up.
Right now it seems to be their only beer so the jury is out on OPEN as a whole.