One month from now, get your cask on to honor one year of British-style beers in Torrance. Saturday, May 5th, Yorkshire Square Brewery will have a bottle release, new beer and cocktails.
Mik is 1
Mikkeller DTLA will celebrate their 1st anniversary tomorrow, a scant two weeks before my birthday. But I seriously doubt any of the special beers that have been announced will last that long or even just a couple of days.
Other Half
Green City IPA – 2nd Anniversary DIPA – 3rd Anniversary DIPA – 4th Anniversary DIPA
Jester King
Colonel Toby – Gotlandsdricka – Petit Prince – Saison Americain (+ bottle releases)
Alvarado Street
Contains No Juice – Delorean Dust – One Giant Leap
Bottle Logic
Gravity Rush – Backwards Compatibility – Pallet Treasure – + rare bottle releases!
Grimm Artisanal Ales
Secret Track – Sunshine Pop! – Galaxy Pop!
Evil Twin
Aun Mas A Jesus (Spanish Edition) – Aun Mas Cafe Jesus (Spanish Edition)
Arizona Wilderness
Sonoran Prince – The Legend…
L.A. 1 A.W.
It may seem that all I write about at times is to post about an upcoming anniversary party for a brewery. Such is the life when breweries come hot and heavy over a short 8 year period.
Next up is in Hawthorne where L.A. Ale Works will be hitting the 1st year mark in early February….
1st Anniversary – Verdugo West
I think a need a bigger spreadsheet to chart the L.A. area anniversary dates. They keep coming at a rapid fire pace. Here is another to add, Verdugo West.
Part of the 2017 Burbank brewing boom, they will be hitting the one year mark with a 1st Anniversary beer and growler fill specials on January 13th.
1st Visit (and 1st Anniversary) – Gunwhale Ales
I don’t usually combine a 1st visit to a brewery with a 1st (or even 2nd or 3rd) anniversary, but plans change and I trekked south to see what Gunwhale Ales was celebrating…
After finding myself on a toll road and getting a little lost, I finally located Gunwhale and their Coastal Ales. The beer was smartly splitt between three stations. The taproom with the basics, if you can call a pretty lengthy list basic. Then one smaller side with a mix of variants as well as an outdoor station with even more variants. Watermelon, fennel, cranberry, clove and many other ingredients too were to be found in the combo of table beer, saisons and IPA’s.
Gunwhale has a good sized patio facing Randolph Avenue and I wish more places had them. On the downside, I am not big on the wildlife trophies in the main taproom or the auxiliary one. Though the latter was offset by a cool farmers hositing cold ones mural.
This is a great location near The CAMP warren of stores and restaurants. I wonder if any cross-over or if that would be too much OC walking.
But on to the beers that I tried:
Chickabiddy – Table Beer – medium good
Pau Brah IPA – with grapefruit and white tea – too much tea not enough hops.
Old Rackatee Farro Saison – little bit of orange in the way back more menthol
Cockrow Breakfast Stout – with Brauhaus coffee not bad.
Chickabiddy with guava ginger raisins and rum soaked oak chips. – maybe some ginger. Just a jumble to me.
Polarized DIPA – tropical aroma. Not bad but didn’t really hit me.
Hop for Mama Belgian IPA – nice funky aroma. Less IPA and more Belgian. Little thin.
Flooded Fields with jasmine tea and milk sugar – low ABV. Will the tea overwhelm here too? Yup. Way too much jasmine. More tea than beer. Super dry.
Mix that Fermentation
Brouwerij West is calling it a year with a breakfrunch. Plus you get High Fives.
Here is the initial beer list:
•Our 1st Anniversary Beer: Barrel-Aged Tripel (NEW!)
A Belgian Golden Strong Ale aged for 3 months in red wine puncheons
•Animal Farm – mixed-fermentation beer aged on peaches (NEW!)
•Chinatown – barrel-aged mixed-fermentation beer (NEW!)
•Spelt Saison (Out-of-the-Cellar First-Year Favorite!)
•Buckwheat Sour (Out-of-the-Cellar First-Year Favorite!)
•Get Back (Out-of-the-Cellar First-Year Favorite!)
•+ surprise variations on some of our classics & more
Anniversary Alert – Indie Brewing
Two pieces of news from Indie Brewing, the southern tip of the DTLA brewing scene.
First, they will be celebrating 1 year of business on Saturday, January 21st. There will be live music, a food truck, and most importantly for beer fans, special one off beers.
Second, their taproom will now be open for regular hours Thurs – Sunday every week. Thursday + Friday 5-10, Saturday 1-10, and Sunday 11-4. As well as a michelada brunch on Sundays.
T Minus 1 in Palmdale
Actually T + 1 as Transplants Brewing turns ONE this Saturday the 14th.
The event starts at noon. You can get all the details on time and address HERE but more importantly is their list of beers including the first barrel-aged Transplants beer…
Here’s what we’ll be adding to the taplist for the occasion:
1st Anniversary (Saison aged in Syrah barrels from Golden Star)
Not Getting Any Younger (IPAx3 with Summit, Mosaic & Experimental hops)
Double Filbert (Double brown ale with chocolate & hazelnut)
Coconut Life (Imperial Coconut Porter)
Pronghorn (Stout with honey & rye)
Vanilla Pronghorn (w/ Bourbon Madagascar Vanilla)
Loose Moose (Dark Ale with Molasses)
Maxmas (Barleywine with maple syrup)
Peaches Be Trippin’ (Imperial peach ale)
Filbert inception randall (filbert served through filberts)
There will be live painting adding to the brewery artwork, t-shirts, new crowler labels, new snifters and food from Zodiac Grill and Izzy’s Tacos.
It’s been a Year?
Yup, it has.
Tomorrow, Craft Beer Cellar – Eagle Rock will celebrate a year of allowing me to wander around trying to decide which beer(s) I want to buy. As you can see, it is not as easy as it sounds….
So head over to Colorado Boulevard and see what they throw on tap for the special occasion.
Brewyard 1
Start looking at your December calendar and blow off the company Christmas party for…..
Brewyard Beer Co. will be breaking out a specially made for the occasion beer and will have outdoor seating as well.