Our Favorite Posts from October 2012

By John Michael Verive on November 1st, 2012

October is over, and from our road trip to Firestone Walker to the Pumpkin Beer Showdown it was a great month for beer. Here are our eight favorite posts from the last month collected in one place.

Keep the Spirit of Beer Week Alive All Year (link)

Beer Week may be over, but here are some simple things you can do to help grow the craft beer scene during the other 51 weeks in the year.

Is LA One of the Best Cities for Beer in America or an Embarrassment to Craft Brewing? (link)

An editorial piece that garnered some controversy (and good discussion) in the comments. How do you feel about how the LA beer scene compares to the more developed San Diego scene?

Road Trip to Firestone Walker Brewing (link)

Our trip north to Firestone Walker was a lot of fun, and we were amazed by the facility that they have built!

Pumpkin Beer Showdown: The Gourdy Dozen (link)

If you’re a beer writer you are pretty much required to write about everybody’s favorite seasonal style. Our panel taste-tested 12 different pumpkin beers with an eye for discovering what elements make for the tastiest version.

Beer Tools: Beer of Tomorrow Tasting Flight Mat (link)

Beer tastings at home are really fun, and this printable tasting-mat will help you organize your tastings and actually remember what you thought of all the beers!

LA’s Best Beer Meets LA’s Best Ice Cream (link)

Beer floats can be so much more that some stout and some vanilla ice cream, and the Beer Float Showdown was a display of creativity and deliciousness!

How Boozy Is Your Beer? (link)

DId you snag a bottle of Black Tuesday this week? At 19% it’s going to sneak up on you! Check out this chart to help visualize just how much booze is in craft beer before you get bushwhacked by a sneaky imperial stout.

Hollywood On Tap: Craft Beer and a Little Movie Magic (link)

The inaugural Hollywood On Tap event was a great festival held in a location just dripping with Hollywood magic.

November, The Holidays, and Winter Warmers

Join us in November for some features to help you survive the holidays with your sanity intact and plenty of helpful posts about craft beer.

Turkey day is just around the corner, and we will give you some tips and guidelines for craft beers to pair with your feast. And just maybe the SoCal weather will finally start to cool off and we can break out the big winter warmer beers that we’ve been saving up.

Thanks for reading, and we’d love to hear from you if you have any ideas or suggestions for Beer of Tomorrow.

Cheers!