Hops Are A Preservative – Transplant Brewing

Hops Are A Preservative - Transplant BrewingI must admit, in full disclosure, I was given this beer for free to review by Peter David of YourPicsSuck Instagram infamy. He also told me that if I changed even a punctuation mark of the beer’s description, he’d sue me in The Peoples Court and petition to remove my “blogging license.” So here is his description:

After joining the Los Angeles County Brewers Guild I realized it was time to show this city what real ale is ‪#‎casketale‬.

I teamed up with Transplants Brewing Company and we brewed an IPA exactly according to historical records.

We entered it into the Los Angeles IPA Festival and we expect it to do extremely well. Make sure you go and vote for it so even if they don’t pick the best beer you guys show them that it’s the people’s choice.

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LA Beer Week 2015 Event Schedule

LABW logoRejoice Los Angeles, for tomorrow marks the kickoff of LA Beer Week 7.  This year’s kickoff will be held at Exposition Park to allow for the Akira-like growth of LABW’s popularity. Despite the throngs of craft beer enthusiasts who will arrive tomorrow having already purchased tickets, it is not too late for you to get general admission 1-5pm passes!

But what about the rest of the week? There is a list on the LABW website, but here are a few BeerGuyLA picks; Continue reading

Upcoming Events – Tony’s Darts Away

Tony’s Darts Away 5th Anniversary – April 4th & 5th

TDA5Fellow TDA regulars will recall that we’ve covered the past Tony’s Darts Away Anniversary weekends and commemorative Dart’s Away IPA releases. This April marks five years of a constantly rotating list of quality craft beer at Tony’s and festivities, April 4th and 5th, promise to be on par with previous years celebrations. Continue reading

Beer For The Apocalypse

aam-art-revBeer Guy LA friend and contributor, Dane Elcar recently threw back a few pints with us over the release of his latest audiobook. This time he lends his voice to the critically acclaimed novel, “Above All Men” written by Eric Shonkwiler and produced by Fiddleblack. In celebration of his efforts, we decided to take on the apocalypse depicted in the story by asking what might be the most important question of all: what beers pair best with the end of the world? Continue reading

Firestone Walker Invitational Beer Fest Tickets

Firestone Walker Invitational Beer Festival***THE EVENT IS SOLD OUT. Took all of 60 seconds.***

It’s that time again! Hopefully you’ve budgeted your beer money wisely this year, because tickets for the Firestone Walker Invitational Beer Fest go on sale this Sunday.

For those who may not have heard of this festival, it has been one of the best and most sought after beer festivals to take place in California for the last few years. Firestone Walker has been able to get some of the worlds greatest breweries to come out to Paso Robles for one day of amazing beer. The event consists of more than 45 breweries that were hand selected by Firestone Walker to participate. Previous years saw the likes of Russian River, Three Floyds, Cigar City Brewing, Mikkeller, and Jester King Brewery. If you have not been before, this is definitely a beer fest to put on your bucket list. The sheer amount of rare and impossible to otherwise get beers along with the chance to talk with the brewers who made those beers really doesn’t exist at that many other beer festivals.

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Bourbon County Brand Stout (2014) – Goose Island

Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Stout 2014There are very few beer events that coincide with special days in the “real world”. The one exception to this rule is the Black Friday release Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Stout and its four variations. You may remember that we wrote about Bourbon County last year as it was the first time that this historically coveted beer had been “officially” distributed to California. As Black Friday approaches, I’ve done the very difficult work of trying this year’s batch and gathering all the info on where you can find some to try yourself. Continue reading