Tag: Mikkeller DTLA

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Mikkeller Down

I wasn’t expecting this news. Not with the Lakers-Clippers-Kings keeping Staples Center busy and considering that the brand is opening in Portland. They had a nice city chain working up the coast and now it is broken.

I don’t know if the space was too big or the coffee shop / bottle shop was not pulling people in but the few times that I went, there were crowds. It wasn’t the typical uncrowded restaurant that you can tell is not going to last.

This all being said without knowledge of the franchise style that operates the San Francisco and formerly L.A. locations. It is a loss that combined with Mega Bodega leaving last year in the same area that does not bode well for craft beer.

Maybe they can find a new location, plenty of mixed use space in the condos of Glendale.

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Coffee and Cans

The coffee shop attached to the Mikkeller DTLA outpost, Kaffebaren, is now Kaffebaren & Bottle Shop.

The café that now will offer bottles and cans to drink there or to go.  Obviously this will be lead by offerings from our closest Mikkeller brewery, Mikkeller San Diego but the initial press release touts Bottle Logic and Three Weavers as well.  All told around 50 bottle options and 20 canned options which seems the inverse of most bottle shops in our canned beer world.

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Danish/Mexican

Mikkeller DTLA is bringing back their Mexican Craft Beer Fest on the weekend of July 27th through July 28th. 20 Mexican craft beers will be on draft from the following breweries:

Border Psycho Brewery – Tijuana
Cerveceria AguaMala – Ensenada
Cerveceria Wendlandt – Ensenada
Fortuna – Guadalajara

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South of the DTLA Border


If the World Cup has you rooting for El Tri, you can take it a step further and El Try some fine Mexican beers on tap at Mikkeller downtown. The prices are a bit on the high side but considering the quality and rare beers that will surely be on tap, it will be worth it.

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#LABW10 – Week+ Recap Part 2


It just so happened that the Beer Belly – Koreatown One Night Stand landed in LABW and so ONS had a local bent with Mumford as the headliner with taps from Homage Brewing and State Brewing as well. This was originally billed as Mumford and East Coast Brewers like Interboro. The winning beer of the night in my (hop)inion was a Watermelon Agua Fresca lager from State that balanced the fruit and the malt very well. The two hazy options that I also tasted were fine. But didn’t pop for me.

I quickly popped down to the nearby Southland Beer to try the Unity IPA on cask. On cask, the hop notes are softer, with a little more citrus. The beer poured a clear orange though I detected a trace of a little buttery character. It was Unity simple and stripped down..

I took a night off to watch the NBA Draft (thanks for nothing Portland) and then on Friday, I headed to DTLA and Mikkeller for a Fonta Flora Brewing night. I immediately picked a sampler tray consisting of…

Beets, Rhymes and Life – beet saison – pretty pink color. Dusky, earthy. Salad like.
Southern Saison – black tea and lemon – bit of spice kick here. Pretty light underneath.
Whippoorwill Wheat – orange, coriander, earl grey tea – EG comes through. Spice again
Wolf Spit – Baltic Porter with hickory bark

I also tasted a Brut IPA from Alvarado Street Champagne Hopi that was really good, but the beet beer was my winner. Even though I detest actual beets.

Finally on Saturday, I headed to Craft Beer Cellar for a local taplist and for Dope & Dank who hosted the party with a DJ on site. I tried a new Arrow Lodge beer Arrow Sol and tasted my local Brewyard’s well-named Loch Ness Maltster.

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#LABW10 – Flora

Here is the daily event recommendation for L.A. Beer Week event # 3….
From Mikkeller DTLA a tap take-over with Fonta Flora

Here are the details for this event:
“Join us on Friday 22nd June for an awesome event with our friends from Fonta Flora Brewery! With an emphasis on seasonal flora, Fonta Flora brings English tradition and Belgian inspiration to the Appalachian mountains of North Carolina.

Free Entry as always! Tap list below!
Beets, Rhymes Life – Appalachian Saison brewed with local beets
Irish Table – Dry Irish Stout
Southern Saison – Appalachian Saison with black tea and lemons
Whippoorwill – Witbier brewed with organic oranges, coriander, and earl grey tea
Wolf Spit – Baltic porter brewed with hickory bark”

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Mik is 1


Mikkeller DTLA will celebrate their 1st anniversary tomorrow, a scant two weeks before my birthday. But I seriously doubt any of the special beers that have been announced will last that long or even just a couple of days.

Other Half
Green City IPA – 2nd Anniversary DIPA – 3rd Anniversary DIPA – 4th Anniversary DIPA

Jester King
Colonel Toby – Gotlandsdricka – Petit Prince – Saison Americain (+ bottle releases)

Alvarado Street
Contains No Juice – Delorean Dust – One Giant Leap

Bottle Logic
Gravity Rush – Backwards Compatibility – Pallet Treasure – + rare bottle releases!

Grimm Artisanal Ales
Secret Track – Sunshine Pop! – Galaxy Pop!

Evil Twin
Aun Mas A Jesus (Spanish Edition) – Aun Mas Cafe Jesus (Spanish Edition)

Arizona Wilderness
Sonoran Prince – The Legend…

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Two for the Weekend

Two special events are going down this weekend to take note of, first is…

Three Weavers meets Firestone Walker – Venice and a new rye lager collaboration named Elevator Music. It will be released on Saturday at the Propagator in Venice.

Second is…

Cloudwater Brew Co. are coming to Mikkeller – DTLA, all the way from Manchester, England. This will be a beer geek bonanza (probably some beer snobs to avoid too) because of this tap list:

NW DIPA Citra Amarillo
Session IPA Amarillo Citra
NE DIPA Simcoe Citra
Pilsner Mandarina Bavaria
Fool For You