Burnt

Burnin Daylight may want to amend the name to Burn 4 since they will be on sale in 4-pack cans. But since this is the first Anniversary IPA from the Lomita brewery, this name fits to. Debuting on draft as well on Saturday, February 1st from 11:30-5PM.

Here is how the brewery characterizes the IPA, ““Burn One” is a dry and clear West Coast IPA featuring the hop STRATA with dank notes of passion fruit and strawberry coming in at 6.5% ”

1st Visit – Burnin Daylight

I made my first official visit to Lomita recently.  Traveling for beer does indeed force one to parts of Los Angeles that you may see only on freeway exit signs.  This time I am drinking my first beers from Burnin’ Daylight which occupies a new development block on Narbonne Street.

Right off the bat I notice two things: One, they have a kitchen with a short food menu which is nice and second, the place was damn cold.  So cold that blankets were being passed out.  The A/C must have decided to work extra overtime.  There is a nice amount of outdoor over a barrel seating and upcycled malt bag pillows inside that make the place homey.

There was a good spectrum of beer styles on offer from the civic named Lomita Light Lager to a Bourbon-Barrel aged stout and IPA’s in-between. I enjoyed the Wheat Mas wheat driven IPA.  It had a bright hoppy flavor and a bit of strength behind it too.  The Gold Days Coffee Milt Stout was a little green coffee bean tasting for the style but coffee lovers like myself are bound to find it tasty nonetheless.  The Small Town Feel DIPA was on track doubling up Citra and Simcoe though it was a little too tongue scrapey old school West Coast (or I have gotten soft).  The least favorite was the Appian Amber.  This is a style that should be easily executed, clean and crisp but this had a weird aftertaste going on that was not my thing.

Overall, I like the feel of the place and for a new brewery, they seemed to be on track with the beers. They are also not too far from the other South Bay breweries so it is easy to add this to the beginning or end of a trip or to make a specific choice to come.

Lomita Rising

Finally a brewery outside of Torrance and DTLA! JK, but it is does seem like certain cities have an abundance of beer.

Lomita (which I couldn’t pin on a map) has two breweries slated to open this very year….

Burnin’ Daylight is well on the way and add to that…

Project Barley.

More information as it rolls in through the year.