Craft Beer in the City of Angels
The craft beer community raised a cry of anguish in December when The Bruery announced that it would shutter their beloved bottle-shop and market in Old Towne Orange. Thankfully the closure of the space was short-lived and the Haven Collective stepped in to add the market to their portfolio of beer businesses, and the new Provisions Market will officially open on June 5th!
We told you about the possible shift in the way growlers would be handled at California breweries, and the newly formed LA Brewers Guild has released a statement on the changes. Soon you might be able to take any suitable growler to be filled at a brewery’s tap room. There are, of course, conditions; read the full statement after the break.
The canning line has been busy at Golden Road Brewery lately, and the brewery has just announced a new seasonal offering in cans for all your Summer adventures and added a another beer to their year-round lineup. Read more →
Beer Paper LA – the new print publication dedicated to craft beer in LA, OC, and the Inland Empire – was unveiled on Tuesday to a throng of exuberant craft beer lovers in Long Beach. Beachwood BBQ and Brewing was ground zero for a grass-roots effort to get the paper into your hands, and many supporters of the craft beer community and the new publication have pitched in to help distribute the paper to their local watering holes and bottle shops.
I drove my paper-route in my neighborhood on Thursday afternoon, and you should be able to score a copy of Volume 1, Issue 1 of Beer Paper LA at these Hollywood craft beer spots:
While the Arts District brewery has been “soft opened” since February, over the weekend Angel City Brewery celebrated their official grand opening with the Heritage Music and Arts festival. The public house at the brewery is now open seven days a week for pours of the core ACB brews and the experimental batches that Brewmaster Dieter is cooking up.
Beer Paper LA is a new publication that is covering the craft beer scene in LA, OC, and the IE; the first issue will be available at your favorite bottle shop or beer bar starting in May. Read more →
Big news for hop heads out of Escondido! Greg Koch had teased it, but now it’s official: last year’s sublime Ruination 10th Anniversary double IPA is coming back to devastate your palates all over again! RuinTen is the same recipe as the anniversary brew, and it will see a bottle and draft release this June!
Pick of the Weekend: RuinTEN and LA Brewers Tackle Coffee Collabs
June 17, 2013
Save the Date: LA Beer Week 2013 Is Coming!
June 11, 2013
Firestone Walker Invitational Beer Fest
June 10, 2013
Craft Beer Meets Mobile Gaming In ‘Ziggy the Beer Yeast’
June 7, 2013
Experience Lighter Side of Craft Beer This Sunday at Beer Belly
June 6, 2013
Another Craft Beer Impostor Joins the Beer Wars
September 13, 2012
One Year of Beer of Tomorrow!
February 27, 2013
Three Takes on Hoppy Wheat Beers
September 11, 2012
Is LA One of the Best Cities for Beer in America or an Embarrassment to Craft Brewing?
October 2, 2012
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