I’m not going to tell you what the ten best breweries in Los Angeles are. What you should do is get out there and try them all. There’s like a hundred. So it’s totally doable. You’ll get to experience all of Los Angeles while you’re doing it. You’re going to love some, and hate others. That’s how it works. But you will have arrived at your own opinion. And that’s what life is all about ..read more

The Explanation To help me stay sane during the lockdown, I started working on a book about the rise of LA beer from an insider’s perspective. I interviewed some of the key players from back when we were all just starting. Did some portraits even. And then it stalled. Because things started to open up again and we had to get back to work. Daniel Drennon asked me to lunch a few weeks ago and asked me to write something for Beer Paper LA. I’ve been posting a bit of a retrospective look at the rise and fall of Strand on social media since the brewery closed. It reminded Daniel that I had started ..read more