Believe and Stand Up
With the world on the cusp of fully opening once again, I wanted to talk this month about the “new.” Breweries like Far Field Beer Company, a bottle shop from the Stout restaurant team...
Brewing in HiDef, Black Tuesday + 25=100
Potential landlord, grates and roll-up doors. I have heard many a tale of a brewery finding and rehabilitating a space only to be slowed at what seems every turn. In the Before Times, the...
Alternate Festivals, Lo-Cal IPAs + Getting Hop-adelic
The 2020 iteration of the L.A. IPA Festival landed on Leap Day this year. People judged 60 IPAs. This month Yorkshire Square Brewery hosts their annual N’Owt but Stout Festival where the darker style...
Second AND Third Locations, Lievre Variations + Rare Beer Hollywood
As our brewing scene grows, that means smaller breweries will be become bigger breweries and bigger breweries need more space. One L.A. county and one Orange county brewery have begun the process of launching...
Pacific Plate Brewing Horchata Stout
Hidden corners of L.A. County are now seeing craft beer’s impact. For example, in a Monrovia industrial park, Pacific Plate Brewing is an upstart brewery from owners Stephen Kooshian (brewmaster), Steven Cardenas (brewer) and...
10 Top Hollywood Craft Beer Destinations
Movies and TV are generally not filmed “in” Hollywood, and unfortunately, nothing is “brewed” in this famous neighborhood either. And like movies and TV, you have to wade through quite a few mass-marketed, four-quadrant,...
