Wanting an approachable sour beer to offer in the tasting room while longer-term brews matured, brewers at Los Angeles Ale Works developed the Blüme Union fermentation system to ferment a wheat-heavy wort into a briskly tart Berliner weisse in short order.
Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine®’s Gearhead columnist and the author of the blog Beers of Tomorrow carefully reviewed his notes from the past calendar year to offer up these beer picks, brewery experiences, and more.
Supported by sales of their polished and nuanced core beers but looking to a future of more mixed-culture stuff, barrel fermentations, and farmhouse styles, Three Weavers Brewing Company is building a reputation for award-winning, high-quality brews.
There’s a Pilsner for every palate as craft brewers take inspiration from the Old World.
The bright, bitter, and aromatic India pale ales of California sparked an infatuation with hops that emanated across the craft-beer landscape and developed into the modern IPA style.
We set out to explore how several craft brewers in Los Angeles are adding a sense of place to their beers in unexpected ways.
Arizona Wilderness Brewing explores the world through local flavors and far-flung friendships.
From wet-hopped beers to the freshest possible bottles offered to drinkers to the unquenchable desire to keep refining and keep showing drinkers a new side of hoppy beers, El Segundo Brewing has become L.A.’s premier IPA brewery.
LA brewers are stepping into the spotlight as the dynamic craft-beer scene joins the list of attractions that draw visitors from across the globe to the sun-soaked megacity.