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Beer Festival Denver

Great American Beer Festival 2012 – Live from Denver (Part 3)

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...
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Beer Festival Denver

Great American Beer Festival 2012 – Live from Denver (Part 2)

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...
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Beer Festival Denver

Great American Beer Festival 2012 – Live from Denver (Part 1)

Winter is coming. Snow and even tornados 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 was...
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Brewmaster California

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...
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Craft Beer Los Angeles

Top Selling Beers from Los Angeles Bars

  • Beer
  • November 10, 2011
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...
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Brewers Los Angeles

Interview: brewmaster Jon Carpenter (Golden Road Brewing)

Even though Jon Carpenter grew up in San Diego, it was hardly a given that he’d end up brewing for a living. It wasn’t until he enrolled at UC Davis and met passionate practitioners...
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