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Superb Owl 2025

This year’s Super Bowl will be contested by two teams who despite getting loads of digital ink spilled about their offensive woes both made it to New Orleans for this years finale to the NFL season.

Reigning champion Kanas City Chiefs will be attempting trifecta of wins while the Philadelphia Eagles behind a monster year from new running back Saquon Barkley will try to snap the streak.

First off this is a long afternoon or long day if you tune in to all the bluster and repetition of football pundits earlier in the day. So have plenty of water handy as well as snacks. The big game is a great time to bottle share so find that hard to find beer and share with whomever is watching with you. I would recommend starting out with the low ABV beers for the first half before moving on to the bottle share portion because sometimes the game is only close in the first half and you want to enjoy that competition and the good commercials too.

I would also suggest having food late in the 4th quarter in case folks feel like jetting off at the final whistle. You don’t want bigger beers on an empty stomach.

I will be posting what I am drinking on Untappd and social media if you want to see what I am sipping.

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In the Tap Lines for February 2025

My favorite month is here. Mostly ’cause it is my birthday month and I use all 28 or 29 days that I get to the point of exhausting everyone else. For this blog, I will do my best to exhaust you with beer news.

~ e-visits to (3) breweries from Oregon

~ special featured reviews

~Heads-Up on Los Angeles Beer Events

~ Three suggested beers to buy this month. One light, one medium and one dark

~ A Book & A Beer reads Our Share of Night

~ A Podcast & A Beer listens to An Arm and a Leg

~ Sports & A Beer returns with How to Fix the Blazers

~ New Beer Releases and Best Beers of the Month

~ I will tap the Firkin and give my no holds barred opinion on the craft beer world.

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What to Drink on Feb. 11th

Of course, 2/11 is the finale of the 2023/2024 NFL season….

And there are some pigskin themed beers out there to try, like the below:

I have a few picks based on the two teams in the big game, starting with the first team to advance, the Chiefs of Kansas City…

Gotta start with the obvious, Swift Cider would make an excellent first quarter drink. Since Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce are Hall of Fame bound, the Heirloom Cuvée would be classy choice.

There are not a plethora of KC beers in L.A. so if you may have to get creative. Look for beers with red labels to match the uniform color (as well as the ubiquitous State Farm ads featuring Mahomes, Maauto and Coach Reid). Or load upon Red IPAs, there are more and more out there.

On to the NFC and the 49ers of San Francisco where you probably need to start and finish at 21st Amendment Brewery where you should start with the Run CMC IPA named in honor of do it all offensive threat Christian McCaffrey and then go on to the Find Your Fortune Toasted Ale. Or, find yourself a version of the California Common and toast both the team and Anchor Brewing.

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Please No Chill

Well, the big industrial marketing brewers are at it again.  Spending time on advertising over ingredients.

Coors Light has had its iconic (?) Silver Bullet Train for as long as I can remember but now they are harnessing some Hollywood CGI so that lucky (?) fans can see their face in the ad during the Super Bowl.  They will also get $500 and swag.  

The downside is that the actual commercial during the game will be played at normal speed which means no one can see the faces.  You have to go to their website or god forbid the Coors YouTube channel to see a slow motion version where you might be able to catch your face if you don’t blink.

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Superb Owl Beer Rundown

While a few miles away at the ol’ SoFi Stadium, the Rams and Bengals were playing, I was watching and drinking beers.

Let’s do a two-minute drill of the beers…

Fancy Pantsy Rye Pale Ale from Eagle Rock

394 Pale Ale from AleSmith

Daisy Cutter Pale Ale from Half Acre

Pineapple Dunn Upside Down Wee Heavy from Stone

Snow Donut Hazy IPA from Smog City

Hello L.A. IPA from Highland Park Brewery

Had to have that last one as a Rams House nod. But overall, Eagle Rock was my winner with the too much pineapple not enough Wee Heavy from Stone was the least regarded.

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SoFi Super

Thankfully, no Brady. No Cowboys. No anti-vaxx Rodgers or Patriots. I can say, it doesn’t matter who wins Super Bowl 56, I will be happy. That leaves us the mental energy to plan great beer choices.

Home team Los Angeles Rams (who by NFL rules is the away team for this game) will face the surprising Bengals of Cincinnati.

So here is the plan for your beer buying:

Buy Local

Buy Crowlers to share or split 4-packs

Load up on low ABV beers…

but have a big TIPA or barrel-aged beer for the last part of the 4th quarter

Have plenty of water.

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Super Bowl LV

The odds of the NFL navigating to Super Bowl # 55 were iffy at best. But Florida beckons and it is time to give you some beer ideas for the big game based on the participants, beer styles or other themes.

Even though this is not a normal Super Bowl year, you will want to keep the ABV low at least through the first half so you can concentrate on the second.

Secondly, look for deeper cuts. What cities did Mahomes and Brady go to college and see if you can find beer from those places. If that is not workable then expand out to the state.

Another fun idea would be to only have beers with 5.5% alcohol to match the Roman numerals.

Lastly save one L.A brewed beer to drink at the end to toast the Super Bowl coming to SoFi next year.

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1 Cent

Reasons to root for the Rams tomorrow:

  1. Because the Patriots are the opposite of America’s Team
  2. Because this is L.A.
  3. If the Los Angeles Rams come away from Sunday’s Super Bowl with a win you can celebrate at Iron Triangle Brewing because they will be pouring their lager from 2-10pm on Monday the 4th for a mere 1-Cent!
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Review – Super Bowl Beers


Instead of talking about the final score of yesterday’s really good game, instead let’s talk about the score of bottles and cans that were had while waiting for play to resume on the field….

Beer buddy Richard and I started with Bell’s seasonal Hopslam. Go big or go home. The smoothness of the honey really works with the hops. It’s been a while since I had this beer and it was really good.

That was followed by KSA from Fort Point. You can’t drink big hops all game long especially a game with so many interruptions (though this year, not too many flags from the officials) and KSA was a good palate cleanser.

On to the third can of the day, this one from Pizza Port, their new Surf Stop Pale Ale, which seemed more IPA, maybe session IPA.

Next came yet another can, this the first cans ever from Brewyard Beer of Glendale. They put their Blonde Common Lager, Sunday Morning into 16oz cans and it was probably the winner of the day by a field goal over the crowler of Fortunate Islands that I had picked up from the DTLA Dankness Dojo earlier in the day. This was the grapefruit version and it was brewed here in Los Angeles.

As confetti rained on the Eagles, the final beer was opened from Yo-Ho Sorry Umami IPA made with bonito flakes. It wasn’t super savory. Was actually more like a saison and though not an IPA it was quite good.

P.S. Thanks to the Metro Expo line for getting me to the party and back in one piece!

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Falcons V. Patriots

Haven’t nailed down a venue or beer choice for the Big Game?

Well, the Goat Group of bars has many options for you. Check out the following….

Der Wolfskopf in Pasadena
1/2 off first beer if in patriots or falcons jersey
Happy hour pricing for tots and pretzels = $3 tots/$3 pretzels

Surly Goat in West Hollywood
$51 open bar for duration of game (optional)
kickoff 3:30pm Doors open 1pm.
Superbowl squares for sale $10 and $20
and tons of Prizes

The Phoenix on La Cienaga
Extended happy hour
$5 draft special from kickoff until last play
Comfortable, spacious seating, wall-to-wall game visibility, and tasty bar bites.

Surly Goat in Encino
‘Merica special- Shot of bourbon and a Pilsner for $10

Little Bear – downtown (arts district)
Dew & Brew $10 Shot and beer (Tullamore Irish Whiskey and pint of Bavik Pilsner) *Will have food special but it is TBD at this time