Tag: Palmdale

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Plan It


If you hadn’t noticed, this blog is not a fan of the intolerant, racist, sexist Ooompa Loompa in office (no offense to the good Oompa’s out there), which means that this August 4th event from Transplant’s Brewing is quite important. Especially with the radical right turn the Supreme Court will most likely soon take.

“We are proud to announce our second annual Planned Parenthood Rocks fundraiser! We plan to make this year’s event even better than ever! This year our local Planned Parenthood Action League is joining forces with Transplants Brewing Company to raise funds for Planned Parenthood Los Angeles! A portion of the alcohol sales will go to Planned Parenthood and there will be an amazing line-up of speakers, delicious catered food, vendors, raffle prizes, games, crafts, a drag show and all kinds of other entertainment!”

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Lucky Two


Lucky Luke Brewing in Palmdale will start off December with their 2nd Anniversary on December 2nd. Replete with limited release beers and Commemorative Glassware.

If you have visited the northern members of the L.A. County Brewers Guild, this would be a great reason to make the drive.

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Featured Review – A Duo from Transplants

This month for the featured reviews, I will compare two beers from one brewery. Rank the apples to oranges as it were.

First stop is the recently 1 year old Transplants Brewing. Let’s check out Filbert….

Not much head to it. Have to pour hard to bring up foam. Left me worried to start, but this turns out to be a really nice tasting chocolate brown ale with a slight touch of filbert nuttiness to it. Milk chocolate aroma then follows into the taste strongly and surely. Filbert lingers a bit on the palate before the nut part finally comes through. In between sweet and dry.

El Mas Guapo

Light on the promised guava but the IPA part shines brightly. Guapo has a clean stonefruit taste with powerful hops at the start. The fruit comes in but is subtle and light and only peeks through as the beer warms up. Getting some dank undertones here too.

If forced to pick, Filbert would be my go to due to the chocolate almost candy bar taste.

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Featured Review – The Cartographer Rye Pale Ale from Lucky Luke

The 2nd featured review of beers bought with a gift card at Craft Beer Cellar – Eagle Rock is from north of me in Palmdale.

Lucky Luke Brewing has recently started sending bottles south and I picked up the Pale Ale with Rye, the Cartographer…

This GPS map maker beer pours a very light orange. Earthy and spicy mix at first with a bit of a lemonade flavor coming through at the end which I quite like. Aroma is kind of bland and missing something. Cartographer falls squarely into the pale ale category which makes it rightly named in a world where IPA’s can get called DIPA or Session. Intrigues me enough to buy more bottles when I see them.

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T Minus 1 in Palmdale

Actually T + 1 as Transplants Brewing turns ONE this Saturday the 14th.

The event starts at noon. You can get all the details on time and address HERE but more importantly is their list of beers including the first barrel-aged Transplants beer…

Here’s what we’ll be adding to the taplist for the occasion:
1st Anniversary (Saison aged in Syrah barrels from Golden Star)
Not Getting Any Younger (IPAx3 with Summit, Mosaic & Experimental hops)
Double Filbert (Double brown ale with chocolate & hazelnut)
Coconut Life (Imperial Coconut Porter)
Pronghorn (Stout with honey & rye)
Vanilla Pronghorn (w/ Bourbon Madagascar Vanilla)
Loose Moose (Dark Ale with Molasses)
Maxmas (Barleywine with maple syrup)
Peaches Be Trippin’ (Imperial peach ale)
Filbert inception randall (filbert served through filberts)

There will be live painting adding to the brewery artwork, t-shirts, new crowler labels, new snifters and food from Zodiac Grill and Izzy’s Tacos.

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First Visit – Lucky Luke Brewing

Within shouting distance or a Peyton Manning football toss from Transplants Brewing is Lucky Luke Brewing.  Whereas Transplants was about the graffiti art and creature on the wall with video games, LL is all wood and piping with an outdoor seating area.
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The beers all have old-timey names like The Esquire or the Mortician. I settled in with a pale ale to gauge the middle of the beer list, The Cartographer was fine. It was certainly in the pale ale category. Probably the pale ale category from a few years back before session IPA’s usurped the category. It was nice and golden in color with a bit of a muted aroma to it.
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If they had crowlers or to go I would have liked to try their Tart Saison and their Oatmeal Stout to see how the other styles fare and see where their brewing strength lay.
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First Visit – Transplants Brewing

Grand Opening Day for Transplants Brewing finally arrived and here are my thoughts on the beers and atmosphere of our northerly brewing neighbor.
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There were an impressive twelve beers on tap and an impressive amount of city officials with commendations too. The space is large and dominated by a cold box and bar in the center. Brewing operations take up the back corner and there is plenty of seating, including a couple of comfy couches to chill out on.
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I started with a taster try of the lighter and hoppier. Palmdale Poppies is a nice light house beer. Cumber Some is filled with cucumber aroma and even more in the flavor. And it is apparently popular as a mix for beer cocktails already. Cream Cycle might be a skosh sweet but the beer has a nice cream texture and the orange and hops balance in the end. The SumNug IPA is as good as many other IPA’s from breweries too.
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The second taster tray was the dark side. With a Filbert Brown that was big on chocolate but a little too thin for me. The Private Line Coconut had thankfully a restrained coconut taste but I have come to the conclusion that me and coconut and beer are not a good trio. The Bayou Black coffee beer was well executed and my favorite of the group which was rounded out by Maxmas a barleywine that was much more in the English tradition. Big and sweet and redolent of toffee.
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Out of the gate the beers are well rounded and considering the use of so many additional items like nuts and vegetables are surprisingly not gacky. (Technical beer term for too much going on in a beer.) There is room to grow in the dark beers and the IPA’s could use a little market distinction but this is a good starting point to grow from.