Urban Honking

Our great, grad school-bound buddy Aubrey “Bobby Beers” White recently high-tailed it out of town. But before she did, she broke out a box of packaged snacks from Japan, all filled with neon colored pickles, she’d been saving for over a year and we threw a sweet and sour going away party for the old […]

While we Hot Knives are mostly proselytizing beer and vegan food, we occasionally regress into fru-fru indulgences on the lactic/enological side. The golden hours portrait above was one of those moments where our collective epicurean id utterly trounced our vegan superego. What you see on your screen is what’s known as a perfect marriage between […]

And now for something completely different! Duchess de Bourgogne is not from the Western United States, contains almost no noticeable hops, mostly comes in 11.2 fl oz. bottles, and features one of the most neo-classically emo girly portraits we’ve ever seen on a beer bottle. It’s not typically the beer we cut our teeth on, […]

Hello readers, get ready to become “listeners”! Our latest installment of vegan hangover cooking instructions (featuring vegan Catalan Toast pictured above) comes to you via sight and sound: Introducing the first of, we hope, many podcasts where we toss out recipe directions, cooking tips and beer ideas into a microphone so you can bring us […]

A number of breweries both known and not are releasing beers whose flavors don’t really correspond to their determined class. When you take a sip of Gonzo Imperial Porter, one of the Flying Dog litter, it seems more like a regular west coast style stout than something deserving such a regal moniker. Avery’s Hog Heaven […]

Rest assured, you will never come across a Hot Knives recipe for cashew cheese nachos. That’s just not something we’re OK with — fake cheese in general, and nacho cheese especially. That said, we’re sick of being barred from improving upon the now-completely-cliché “goat cheese and beet” salad. So we went ahead and tried out […]

We figured that an assortment of awesome cocktail nuts would be the perfect accompaniment to the end of a huge bike ride, and the beginning of a beer bust. It was a model marriage. These three nut recipes work extremely well together both in term so of taste and timing. While you don’t necessarily need […]

What with the upcoming La Grand Crew beer and bicycle outing, and now this recipe, it’s shaping up to be unofficial ‘Beverage Week’ here at Hot Knives. Considering it’s the dregs of summer we’re fine with that. A few days ago we set upon making a 4-course salad dinner for friends that we firmly insisted […]

For no good reason at all Hot Knives is hosting our first (annual?) bicycle tour of L.A.’s best beer stores on Saturday, August 11. We know we’ve been eluding to this thing for months, since we first started reviewing our favorite brew purveyors for this site. But now the date is set and the details […]

When attempting a dairy-free caprese salad, we’re just as repulsed by the idea of coagulating soymilk into savory balls as SoCal’s recent super-chef-transplant Mario Batali would be. Instead, we whipped up some white polenta, let it congeal, and ritzed it up with two variations on a hearts of palm puree, topped with fresh farmers market […]