Urban Honking

Not having grown up on Frank Zappa’s music, or dark and sugary American strong ales for that matter, we venture to offer that both those things could be described as “difficult.” And difficult is a fine word for Lagunitas’ latest (and last) seasonal beer tribute to freak-rocker Frank Zappa. This one, a weird dark tagged […]

Put your Fourth of July pints down people: We have some beer news. This week Hot Knives and Verdugo Bar are teaming up for a very special 6-course craft beer and cheese tasting menu – which includes a much anticipated first-taste of Los Angeles’ first new brewery in decades. Sponsored by Citysearch, the event is […]

Until we drank this beer, the words “extra high” had no special meaning really. At least as far as beer and beyond our extended gravity bong phase in college. But “extra high” is, in fact, what the gold foil letters “XH” on the label of this Hitachino Nest beer signifies. Oh yes. That “extra” refers […]

Date: April 5, 2009 Time: 2:00 pm Location: Jona’s house Mike Merrill Josh Berezin Jona Bechtolt [An Xbox 360 is on in front of the drinkers.] Jona: Mike, let’s play. Mike: We have to drink beer. Jona: I am drinking beer. I like it! 88/1000: Ninkasi Spring Reign Ale Josh: This a spring seasonal? I […]

Date: April 5, 2009 Time: 2:00 pm Location: Jona’s house Mike Merrill Josh Berezin Jona Bechtolt [An Xbox 360 is on in front of the drinkers.] Jona: Mike, let’s play. Mike: We have to drink beer. Jona: I am drinking beer. I like it! 88/1000: Ninkasi Spring Reign Ale Josh: This a spring seasonal? I […]

Date: April 4, 2009 Time: 3:00 pm Location: Saraveza Mike Merrill Josh Berezin J: Let’s start it up. M [tastes]: This is so boring. J: What is it? 85/1000: Schneider’s Wiesen Edel-weisse M: Nothing I say matters in this entire blog post, because I’m so stuffed up from allergies. J: I will definitively rule upon […]

Date: April 4, 2009 Time: 3:00 pm Location: Saraveza Mike Merrill Josh Berezin J: Let’s start it up. M [tastes]: This is so boring. J: What is it? 85/1000: Schneider’s Wiesen Edel-weisse M: Nothing I say matters in this entire blog post, because I’m so stuffed up from allergies. J: I will definitively rule upon […]

Breakfast for vegetarians can often become the perfect pipeline for the over-processed. Faux chorizo, soy turkey sausage, and other forms of soy-plastic sodium bombs. The joy of chewy mixed meat and snappy bacon was the first thing found by many of us non-hogs; to us this habit constantly requires breaking. This week we turned a […]

This is undoubtedly the only recipe we have ever developed with a church potluck in mind. Our favorite local brewer, Mark Jilg, the mad man (in a good way) behind Craftsman Brewing in Pasadena was hosting the annual fundraiser for his mom’s Unitarian Church congregation at his brewery. He said he needed something for the […]

Pouring ‘one out for your homey’ may have become a white boy cliché years ago, but the honest sentiment behind it — to share your spirits with the spirits — dates back centuries. The distiller’s version of this superstitious notion is called “angel’s share,” and was first stumbled upon by booze-men on both sides of […]