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BLUE PALMS BREWHOUSE
6124 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, 323 464 2337

NEW ON TAP

Owner Brian Lenzo drove down to San Diego yesterday and picked up 11 beers you can’t get anywhere else. All of those beers are still on tap, including Pizza Port Pedestal, Mission Hefeweizen, Rock Bottom Ragtop, Rock Bottom Abbey Ale Quad, Weinstephaner Lager, Ballast Point Black Marlin, Pizza Port Revelation, Mission Blonde, Pizza Port Killer Danas IPA, Ballast Point Abandon Ship, Rock Bottom Northstar IPA, Pizza Port Infamous, Karl Strauss 20th Anniversary (a Belgian Tripel Ale fermented for 10 months in bourbon barrels) and Mission Imperial Alt.

You’ll also find Firestone Double Barrel, Moylan’s Harvest IPA, Sacramento Brewing Company IPA, Speakeasy Hunter’s Point Porter, Rubicon IPA, Blue Palms IPA, Moylan’s Tipperary Pale Ale on Nitrogen, Rogue Black Lager, Kona Coffee Stout (made with two pounds of Kona coffee) and Yankee Liberty Pale Ale.

DAILY PINT
2310 Pico Boulevard, Santa Monica, 310 450 7631

NEW ON TAP

Left Coast Tangerine Hefeweizen Wheat Beer

Lon said that on Friday, they’re adding three artisan specials on firkin from Coronado Brewing Co., including Skipper’s Best Bitter, Piccadilly Porter and Admiral’s IPA. You’ll also find Red Devil Ale on tap.

JOHNNY’S BAR
5006 York Boulevard, Highland Park, 323 551 6959

NEW ON TAP

Co-owner Zac Crandell said that as soon as AleSmith’s My Bloody Valentine runs, out, Johnny’s will add Grimbergen Dubbel. Also, they’ve added Stone Sublimely Self-Righteous Ale, a limited release.

LUCKY BALDWIN’S
17 South Raymond Avenue, Pasadena, 626 795 0652

NEW ON TAP

The Old Town Pasadena pub added 50 new beers last Saturday for Belgian Beer Fest, which runs through the end of the month. The only new beer on tap is Popperings Hommel, a hoppy Belgian beer with a lighter color that’s 8% abv.”

Lucky Baldwin’s Delirum Cafe
21 Kersting Court, Sierra Madre, 626 355 1140

NEW ON TAP

The eastern outpost of Lucky Baldwin’s added about 30 new beers on tap for the Belgian Beer Fest. The only thing that’s changed since the festival started on Saturday is a Firestone Double Barrel Ale from Paso Robles.

Belgian Beer Fest runs until the end of the month.

PURE LUCK
707 North Heliotrope Drive, Los Angeles, 323 660 5993

NEW ON TAP
Lost Abbey Midnight Sessions – San Marcos, CA

NO LONGER AVAILABLE

Telegraph Brewing Co. Robust Ale – Santa Barbara, CA

AleSmith My Bloody Valentine just went offline but should return.

SPITZ
371 East 2nd Street, Downtown, 213 613 0101

Craftsman 1903 should be hooked up by the beginning of next week.

WURSTKUCHE
800 East 3rd Street, Downtown, 213 687 4444

NEW ON TAP

Co-owner Joseph Pitruzzelli said they’re switching from Leffe Brune to Leffe Blonde. They just brought on Wiesenedel-Weisse, a certified organic German Hefeweizen. “We just got all 24 beers running to the back, instead of 12,” he said. “That’s big for us.”

Pitruzzelli: “We have a new cider called Aspall, a Belgian organic apple cider that will come online by Saturday.”

NEW IN BOTTLES

Allagash Tripel in 750 ml bottles

THE YORK
5018 York Boulevard, Highland Park, 323 255 9675

NEW ON TAP

According to owner Ryan Ballinger, “The Craftsman Honesty Ale went on tap. It is a sour cherry Belgian style fruit beer from our friends in Pasadena. It is tart and fantastic, one of my favorites of the Craftsman seasonals. We have two kegs of it.”

Smithwick’s Irish Ale is also on tap.

NEW ON CASK

Two new 5-gallon cask ales should be coming today from Craftsman.

NO LONGER AVAILABLE

Lagunitas Brown Shugga
Gordon Oskar Blues Ale