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Three Weavers Brewing has an international collaboration on shelves soon with Japan’s Coedo Brewing. The beer is Komorebi, a tart and tropical IPA, in 16oz cans.
Coedo brewer Yasuki Mizunuma teamed with Alexandra Nowell in Inglewood for the beer that has about 3 pounds of Citra, Strata and Galaxy hops. at about 3 lbs per barrel plus hibiscus and lactobacillus. Komorebi is named after the Japanese word for “the feeling you get when you see light filtering through leaves.”
As Los Angeles makes the slow transition from summer to late summer before heading to early summer, we can start to look at the bigger beers, the snifter beers. While also searching for the perfect beer to go with the fall sports season. Stay tuned for both this month.
~ e-visits to three breweries in NBA cities.
~ special featured reviews of beers over 10% ABV
~ 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 Big Game by Mark Leibovich
~ I will tap the Firkin and give my no holds barred opinion on the craft beer world.
Here are two events to get your November started in the Los Angeles craft beer world:
1) November 10 – Three Weavers 4th Anniversary
2) November 16 to 18 – Brewery Draconum 1st Anniversary
Don’t forget that I write for another audience (plus some Venn diagram cross-overs) on Food GPS.
So please check out the following….
CANarchy in Inglewood plus Brut IPA – HERE
Benny Boy Brewing and Cellador “still” ales – HERE
+ I also reviewed a book instead of a beer for The Full Pint, read it HERE.
Now I don’t agree with the 16oz cans. Would have gone with the SixPoint style skinny cans. But the fact that a 14 month aged Willett Bourbon barrel collaboration is in cans at all, is great. Now let me go look up Urban Roots Beer of Sacramento to see what they do that intrigued Three Weavers to brew with them.
Usually beer dinners are a bit pricey. (Usually for good reason) But if you were looking to try a beer and food pairing and are closer to Silver Lake than Inglewood, then this Three Weavers at Gelson’s event might be for you.
The news broke yesterday that Three Weavers the fast growing brewery in Inglewood has joined forces with the CANarchy Collective.
Per Lynne Weaver, Three Weavers Founder and CEO. “Now more than ever, it is vitally important for craft breweries to band together to preserve our collective livelihoods and legacies and grow the overall industry. By joining the CANarchy collective, Three Weavers will continue to support our community – the craft beer industry, fellow craft breweries, independent beer, and of course, local craft beer drinkers. We are truly excited to partner with the entire CANarchy Craft Brewery Collective and look forward to what we will accomplish together in the coming years.”
The CANarchy portfolio includes Oskar Blues Brewery, Perrin Brewing Company, Cigar City Brewing, Squatters Craft Beer, Wasatch Brewery and most recently, Deep Ellum Brewing.
Now, YOUR view of this will be primarily colored by your trust level of Weaver and head brewer Alex Nowell. It will also be colored by the street cred of the brewers in the list above. I am no finance guy who can tell you about the Fireman Capital Partners that are in the background. But these “collectives” are fast becoming the norm. And they will include growing, in demand breweries in geographic sweet spots. Duvel Moortgat has their nationwide trio. Constellation realized after paying big for Ballast Point that they needed a group and not just one brewery. I would not be surprised in the least if there is an IPA collective, a sour collective and other niche groupings.
Remember, the best way to measure the impact of a sale is to taste the beer before and then after and then after again. Money is not evil. Big is not bad. But you do have to be watchful because it can change how things are done.
Personally, I will be granting Three Weavers a long leash on this.
It has been a bit since I mentioned Inglewood’s Three Weavers but now I have a great excuse to….
Cans of Radler just in time for summer. With a kiss of citrus in each can.
Here is a really early look at L.A. Beer Week events that you may want to add to your schedule for celebrating the week in Los Angeles beer…
1. Monday, June 18th @ Eagle Rock Brewery Public House
“Come one, come all to learn a bit about the beer world from our esteemed panel of brewers/brewery owners (Highland Park Brewery, Three Weavers, Societe Brewing and Eagle Rock Brewery)! The kicker? Each panelist will be presented with hot wings that get progressively hotter throughout the panel. Sayre Piotrkowski, Bay Area beer evangelist will be moderating this SUPER HOT and hilarious panel. Can they take the heat? Can YOU? If you aren’t scurred, you should come try the flight of hot wings plus beers designated by the panelists to quell the inferno in their mouths. Each of the hot wings will be prepared with special hot sauces prepared by Chef Jerry Su, so they’ll be both delicious and SPICY!”
2. Tuesday, June 19th @ Harajuku Taproom
“Harajuku Taproom is a taproom for Baird Beer from Shizuoka, JAPAN. We will be celebrating LA Beer Week with a wide selection of Japanese Craft Beer from Baird Beer, several guest taps including Coedo and Hitachino, and some Japan-themed local LA beers. 21 beers on tap, special flights, representatives from Coedo, pouring some samples of their beer offering, a presentation on Baird Beer, and a discussion of Japanese Craft Beer by Tomm Carroll, LA Correspondent for Celebrator Beer News, and regular writer for Beer Paper LA.”
3. Thursday, June 21st @ Naja’s Place
“Naja’s Place in Redondo Beach will once again host the Battle of the Guilds; a three-Guild tap takeover between Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco. Come support the home team and help LA win back the highly-coveted Golden Keg!”
4. Saturday, June 23rd @ Three Weavers Brewing
“Join us at our brewery in Inglewood for the 1st Annual Brewmo Pseudo-Sumo Showdown, where brewers from all around will square off in a brew-tal battle for eternal glory and a chance to hold the world-renowned Brewmo Pseudo-Sumo Belt of the Beermasters. We’ll have our parking lot turned into a sumo wrestling arena where you can drink some beer while you watch your favorite brewers lay it all on the line as they strap themselves into giant sumo wrestling suits and fight! It will be TOTAL PSEUDO-SUMO MADNESS. Free admission for 21+ with valid ID; our doors open at High Noon.”
5. Sunday, June 24th
“Why not finish the week at Milkfarm for the grand finale? ‘Cause in case you didn’t know….BEER LOVES CHEESE and CHEESE REALLY LOVES BEER! We’ll kick-off the class with a welcome pour of this year’s Unity Beer hosted by LA Ale Works! Alyssa, Milkfarm Cheesemonger and Craft Beer Cellar’s Beer Queen, will then guide you through FIVE unique, LA-brewed beers paired with FIVE delicious American cheeses (and/or cheese-based yummies). This class is meant to highlight the importance of the current-day artisan, and how they affect their communities. You’ll also get an overview of the brewing process, as well as learn the differences between many of the major beer styles….oh and you’ll learn a thing or two about CHEESE of course!”
Fire has really been a bastard to California in the last months of 2017 but I have seen brewers from Bend to now, Inglewood rise to the occasion with Sonoma Pride beers. Three Weavers is the latest…
Look for this new beer plus others bearing the Sonoma Pride name.
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
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