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BevCon: Los Angeles
Aug 19
The LINE Hotel
BevCon: Los Angeles
The LINE Hotel
The LINE Hotel
Pints and Pages: Homebrew World in San Diego
Aug 22
Ballast Point Brewing Company: Miramar
Pints and Pages: Homebrew World in San Diego
Ballast Point Brewing Company: Miramar
Ballast Point Brewing Company: Miramar

Beer Tasting & Tour Packages

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Need helping planning your next big beer adventure?
From birthday beer bashes to guided tastings and brewery tours, I have a trio of curated packages available.

Pants-free beer journalist for the win! Spending the night packing and panicking for tomorrow morning’s trip to L.A., a town I really don’t know as well as I should. But I shall persevere! And moderate a @bevcon2018 panel with @monkishbrewing and @adamdulye! Right after I finish this crusher of a @tiredhandsbrewing IPA. And pack my bags. Because I am flying out at 730am.
Spending the afternoon dashing through sprinklers @dominopark, the rare playground that both kids and adults can appreciate. #dadlife
Self-portrait after working late on a Friday night to finish a big ol’ @imbibe feature. Freelancing is an endless game of putting weights on your shoulders, casting them off, celebrating, and then seeking out more. But at least I get to wear shorts during the summer! And drink bourbon right now.
Some days, some very long days, you spend six hours filming a @chowhound video featuring you drinking beer and making pizza, leaving you so tired that all you can do is stare off into the scarlet sunset and, at your wife’s request, hold some very robust succulents growing in a @troegsbeer can. Also: I am now drinking whiskey.
Even living in a city as sprawling as New York, it’s easy to get stuck in a rut. So when a story assignment took me uptown to @harlemhops, I made an afternoon out of it, scoping out the local street art by bike and crushing what I consider to be NYC’s best al pastor tacos @tacomixny. And now it’s back to my regularly scheduled Brooklyn adventures.
And sometimes, when I really want to get work done, the formula is a closed door, a can of @suarezfamilybrewery Qualify Pils and some @iggypopofficial / @underworld collaborations on repeat. Next stop: 2,200 words on beer’s biggest trend, brut IPA.
I am just as perplexed by this installation—the writing on the boot is a nice touch—as I am by my plans for this weekend. I am flying to Los Angeles on Sunday to moderate a @bevcon2018 panel with @adamdulye and @monkishbrewing. After that: I don’t know! I haven’t been to L.A. for five years. I’m staying in Koreatown. Anyone got any swell beer or food tips? I’ll be in town till Wednesday, August 22.
Some @shacksbury rose cider and sprinkler action to chase away a cloudy Sunday.
Phew. After a day filled with rainstorms and biking to @hopculturemag’s excellent Beers With(out) Beards festival, I found my true purpose: sitting beside our garage, pretending to be an elementary-school teacher to a couple of tiny humans, sipping on some fine @moustachebrewing IPA sitting near a banana on a popsicle stick. Because that is my life.
As a journalist specializing in beer, there’s always the visual quandary: Do you post a picture of beer? Or do you post a picture of your favorite street art of the week? Here’s the latter, posted while I sip some seltzer alongside OK bourbon, letting the week waltz into the weekend.
Our new apartment is right by the site of the former Brooklyn Dodgers baseball stadium, repurposed as a big ol’ apartment complex and the Jackie Robinson playground, where a painted baseball diamond doubles as home base for the sprinklers. Also: this @barrierbrewingco Lomax “summer IPA” hit the refreshing spot. Summer in the city sweatin’ on and on.
Steamy summer night on the #AstroStoop getting reacquainted with some @alch3mistb33r Focal Banger. It’s crazy how fast trends are going these days, the desire for the new and the next paramount. But dang, this Vermont-grown brewery’s IPA still delivers. P.S. Thanks for the can, @16ozcanvas