John M. Verive


Sour Union

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.

Critic's List: John Verive’s Best of 2017

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.

Breakout Brewer: Three Weavers Brewing

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.

The Pilsner Landscape

There’s a Pilsner for every palate as craft brewers take inspiration from the Old World.

L.A.’s Wildest Homebrewer

Professional forager Pascal Baudar pushes the limits of foraged “beer.”

The IPAs of California

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.

Finders Keepers

We set out to explore how several craft brewers in Los Angeles are adding a sense of place to their beers in unexpected ways.

Breakout Brewer: Arizona Wilderness Brewing

Arizona Wilderness Brewing explores the world through local flavors and far-flung friendships.

Breakout Brewer: El Segundo Brewing

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.

Beercation: Los Angeles

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.