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Smog City Brewing is going to transition out of the Bixby Knolls Steelcraft spot and into Smog City Heights: Eats & Drinks “an elevated fast-casual food experience that brings the full Smog City story full circle.”
And having just recently been at Smog City, I can easily see how their beers which cover a wide spectrum of flavors will play very well with food.
Below are a smattering of Oktoberfest parties going down here in the Los Angeles area in as many different neighborhoods as I could find…
9/12 to 9/14
Smog City – Torrance
9/13
El Segundo Brewing – El Segundo
Five Point Five – El Segundo
9/20
Frogtown – Los Angeles
Los Angeles Ale Works – Hawthorne
8one8 – Canoga Park
Feathered Serpent – La Puente
Claremont Craft Ales – Claremont
9/20 and 9/21
Enegren – Moorpark
Smog City – Torrance
Benny Boy – Eastside Los Angeles
9/26
Audio Graph – DTLA
9/27 and 9/28
Lawless – NoHo
Smog City Brewing will be opening a fifth location in Culver City in the coming Culver Public Market. In fact, they are the very first tenants.
As you see in the photo, this spot will not be open for a couple years which is the only downside of this news.
Smog City is bringing back their Summer of Lagers Party on Saturday, July 26th at the brewery taproom from 12-10p with all three of our Summer of Lagers on tap: Hell Helles, Double Pilsner and Smog Czech.
Smog City has made a chocolate bar! Elements of Beer is a 55% milk & dark treat that is infused with malted barley and candied orange peel.
The chocolate portion of the equation was handled by Marsatta Chocolate, also of Torrance.
There has been such a fantastic outpouring of support for Los Angeles by breweries far and wide in the wake of the devastating wildfires of this past January.
The charity program spearheaded by Common Space Brewery has garnered quite a bit of support from California and the rest of the Fractured States of America.
Here are my thoughts on the latest beers that I have had, let’s get going….
Far Field pale ale nice sharp bite. Grapefruit. Strong. Little buttery though at the back end.
Smog City a West Coast IPA that has a hazy mouthfeel to it. A combo of bitter and vanilla. Some pine on the back end too.
Lawless light orange in color. Piney bitterness followed by a hint of grape.
Radiant Beer Co. is a just fine IPA. Medium dose of bitterness but also a touch buttery
I am kinda surprised that Smog City Brewing had not leaned automotive before now, but glad that their recently released lager is here…
One of the more fun yearly beer events in Los Angeles is Wishes Weekend at Smog City Brewing which returns Friday, February 21st through Sunday, February 23rd.
This year we are being teased with where the name Infinite Wishes’s comes from “and how it’s connected to its “little brother” The Nothing.” As “this year we’ll be rolling out their origin stories and revealing more about the making of these two iconic Smog City beers.”
This is in addition to the original bourbon-barrel aged recipe beer plus variants that cover the ingredient spectrum.
There is an international collaboration out in the last weeks from Smog City Brewing and Nepomucen Brewery from Szkaradowo, Poland. And it’s a Baltic Porter! A win for diversity in beer styles.
Each year Smog City Brewing releases Buzzworthy a “bourbon barrel-aged honey stout brewed with over 600 pounds of raw buckwheat honey…”
Two things have changed this year. First it’s in cans and there is a special red wine barrel-aged variant for 2024. And you know that Smog City does barrel-aged variants quite well.