Craft Beer Mergers and Acquisitions
Chicago and New York. Oregon and Washington. Where will ABInBev and their craft beer mergers machine next turn their gaze? It could make for a fun parlor game. It has come to light that...
A Little Bit Malty in Here
Cismontane Brewing in Rancho Santa Margarita has eschewed the single hop idea and instead has partnered with Best Malz out of Germany to undertake a series of single malt beers. The brewers are trying...
Interview: beer pro Wayne Wambles (Cigar City Brewing)
With so many great breweries at the recent Firestone Walker Invitational Beer Fest, there was bound to be some that I would miss while I was there. Thanks to e-mail, I was able to catch...
Can’t Get That Here: Craft Beer Wish List for Los Angeles
Over the weekend, I had two craft beer encounters that made me happy. First, Congregation Alehouse in Pasadena had Boo Goop, a wheat wine collaboration between Three Floyds and Mikkeller. Two days later at...
Head South for Craft Beer
Los Angeles is filled with people born in other cities. Be it Boston, Chicago, Kansas City or my hometown of Portland. So it seems appropriate to highlight beers from places that others call home,...
7 “It” Breweries From Across The United States
Great beer recently converged on the Craft Brewers Conference in Chicago for seminars, beer dinners and the World Beer Cup and we should raise a toast to two California breweries, Firestone Walker and Ballast...
