POGua

It doesn’t take too many broiling SoCal days before you start grasping for anything that will cool you down. Agua Frescas are a great way and why not throw a tropical twist on it….

Los Angeles Ale Works has with their their new fruited wheat beer POGua Fresca.

L.A. Beer Week – Recommended Events

Here are some of my choices for L.A. Beer Week as of today. I will have tried to pick one for each day ( still need ones for the 17th and 18th ) but there is not a lot of choices on the website. Either the number of events is really low or they are not being added to the main site.

Los Angeles Ale Works and Common Space – Friday, June 13 – Block Party

Homage Brewing – Saturday, June 14 – Nine Year Anniversary

Lincoln Beer Co. – Sunday, June 15 – Dads and Donuts with Randy’s Donuts

Hermosillo – Monday, June 16 – Highland Park Tap Take-Over

Beachwood Blendery – Thursday, June 19 – Bottle Share and Beer Release

Common Space – Saturday, June 21 – Defend the Parks Day

Select Beer Store – Sunday, June 22 – Cellador Tap Takeover

Believe

When the temperature rises, our local breweries seem to rise to the occasion with just the right beer for it, like….

Los Angeles Ale Works getting a cream ale out to us to keep us cool. Add to that a little beer style education with a catchy name as well.

The Beer Search Party Reviews Wildfire Relief Charity Beers

Taking a short break from the We Love L.A. banner of charity beers for the Eaton Canyon and Palisades fires to support three beers outside the main push.

Cerveceria del Pueblo and Arts District Brewing – Flowers for the Canyon

Glad to see an XPA beautiful bright yellow color.  Getting a Concord grape note in this.  Has a nice bite to it as well.

Paperback Brewing LA Strong IPA

Pours a dark yellow with loads of rising bubbles. Piney and dank. Tastes more like a DIPA. Lots of hops here. 

Los Angeles Ale Works ReBuild IPA

This is a prototypical West Coast IPA in 2025.  Leaning into the citrus realm while pouring a sharp yellow color

Sean Suggests for November 2024

It has been a bitter November so let’s dive into some hops to console ourselves.  And let’s keep it in the Los Angeles family and within low 7% abv too.

Los Angeles Ale Works Steady Coastin’ West Coast IPA – 7% – “Crisp with notes of juicy melon, berry, sweet fruit, and fresh pineapple.”

Brown Soul Brewing Juguito Hazy IPA – 7.1% – “inspired by our very own Chef Hugo, who many have come to know affectionately, as “Juice”, this hazy IPA packs a punch”

Ambitious Ales Frodo Foggins Hazy IPA – 7.2% – “we took the base of our NZ style Pils and beefed it up into a mighty foggy one! Pillowy soft with lots of juicy character the Freestyle Hops Motueka and Kohia Motueka Hop Kief are bursting with notes of lime sherbert, starbursts and tropical fruit.”

The Haze Way

Some breweries tend to go with hazy and others go with juicy when they are labeling their non West Coast IPAs.  Los Angeles Ale Works uses the latter and have a new one you should check or or more appropriately check in to, Hotel Hazeway Juicy DIPA with “hoppy notes of peach, passionfruit, white grape and red currant.”