The Many Adventures of Epic Beer Girl: LA Beer Week

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Monday, June 29, 2015

L.A. Beer Week Kickoff Event Recap

Fancy glasses for the VIPs!

Even though I live near Los Angeles, I don't visit as often as I would like to, mainly because of dreaded traffic. Last Saturday, though, I had the perfect excuse to battle the freeways, the L.A. Beer Week Kickoff Event! Held at Exposition Park, the event featured over seventy-five breweries, live music, and food trucks.

Food trucks in their own area helped with lines.

The Kickoff Event was very well organized, from check-in to the layout of breweries and food trucks. There was an exclusive area for VIP ticket holders which featured a large area with chairs and tables, as well as a large tent to help keep people out of the warm California sunshine. Another unique feature of the VIP area was that there were designated bathrooms for VIPs only as well as special pours of beers in this area. I thought this was a great idea!

VIP bathrooms

Shady VIP area

Many breweries brought special beers which were released throughout the event, which helped attendees to space their drinking out over the course of the afternoon. I found it interesting that the longest line of the day wasn't for a beer, but for free tote bags which were being screen-printed on the spot by Boulevard Brewing.

Boulevard Brewing brought their sweet van.

Since the event was held in a large area, it was a great way to help attendees spread out and make for short lines for beer and food. This also made it easier to run into friends throughout the afternoon.

Half of the Four Brewers

The event organizers ensured there were plenty of water stations placed throughout the event area, which helped people to stay hydrated on the hot day before summer.

One of the many water stations

One of my favorite beers of the day, Smog City's Infinite Wishes

El Segundo and Cascade Brewing's collaboration beer, Perfect Strangers

Curling anyone?

I'm so glad that I was able to attend the L.A. Beer Week Kickoff Event and am excited to see what is in store for next year. If you weren't able to attend this year's event, I highly recommend you add it to your calendar for next year!

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Pink Boots Society Los Angeles to Host L.A. Beer Week Charity Beer Garden

Celebrate women in the craft beer industry at Three Weavers Brewing on June 22

Join the women of Pink Boots Society Los Angeles for a charity beer garden at Three Weavers Brewing Company on Monday, June 22nd from 4pm-9pm. The event will celebrate women in the beer industry with a stellar lineup of guest brews handselected by Pink Boots LA Chapter Lead and Three Weavers Brewmaster Alexandra Nowell.

The event will also mark the official release of the Three Weavers collaboration with the yettoopen Arts District Brewing. Return of Sassy Rye IPA is a super dank (and super sassy) rye forward IPA generously hopped with Simcoe, Mosaic, Galaxy, and Equinox hops. The collaboration brew welcomes awardwinning female brewer Devon Randall back to her hometown of Los Angeles and is a new iteration of the beer they originally brewed by Nowell and Randall at Pizza Port Solana Beach in 2014.

Ticket Details:

Tickets are $20 and available for purchase through Eventbrite.
Five 5 oz tasters (which includes a Three Weavers glass!) are included with tickets.
Additional tasters will be available for $4 each.
100% of proceeds from the beer garden will be donated to the Pink Boots Society scholarship fund which was founded to empower women in beer through education and community building.

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