Taps are Flowing in Glendale
When I first moved to Glendale from Oregon, it may as well have been a dry city for all the good beer you could find. Red Carpet Liquors held down the fort (and still...
Great American Beer Festival 2012 (Part 3): California Breweries Win 24 Medals
California and Los Angeles breweries represented well at the Great American Beer Festival medal ceremony. Smog City Brewing (who is celebrating one year and a new space in Torrance) and co-owner Jonathan Porter won...
Great American Beer Festival 2012 (Part 2): Denver Brewery Tour
Today is awards ceremony day at the Great American Beer Festival. But yesterday was the best brewery tour that I have experienced. New Belgium Brewing in Fort Collins was an amazing complex with pipes...
Great American Beer Festival 2012 (Part 1): GABF Opening Session Stars 580 Breweries + 2500 Beers
Winter is coming. Snow and even tornados are in the forecast for today and Saturday, but Thursday was beautiful in Denver, crisp and fall-like, which we don’t see in Los Angeles. And the Southland...
Naming Beers at 13 Top Craft Breweries
On June 9 in Paso Robles, at the inaugural Firestone Walker Invitational Beer Fest, I asked participating craft beer pros, “How do you go about naming your beers?” Read their responses. Tyson Arp (Nebraska...
Top Selling Beers from Los Angeles Bars
At the L.A. Beer Week fest on October 23, I asked three of L.A.’s best beer bar owners (and one GM) pointed questions, including, “What’s your top selling beer, and why do you think...
