Los Angeles beer week is an 11 Day Celebration of Beer Culture in Los Angeles And Orange Counties from October 7-17th! Read more
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Why do we love this bar? The name says it all. 99 Bottles carries 99 beers! Just check out this partial list: Read more
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Dec 29
2009
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It’s obvious that drinking and driving can kill. But in Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse feature Death Proof, it’s not the drinking that kills. There’s more flowing liquor than rivulets of blood in this high-octane, high-proof party not-your-stereotypical-chick chick flick.
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Dec 29
2009
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Well, just when I'd figured the Internet was one of Al Gore's more over-rated inventions, certainly not the job-creating juggernaut that global climate change has become, along comes good news for my in-box.|
Dec 29
2009
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This is a column about champagne and which bottle you should bring to the next party you attend. Seven different brands and 10 different bottles were sampled by the panel of experts I assembled at a recent research workshop conducted at the Imbiber’s West Coast Headquarters. And by “experts,” “research,” “workshop,” and “headquarters,” I mean a bunch of my friends came over, and we sat around my living room getting banged-up on bubbly. In the interests of science, of course.
But before we get to the results of the tasting, I must indulge in my favorite holiday tradition: the bastardization of a beloved Christmas classic.
The Bash Before Christmas
Twas the bash before Christmas, and all through the house
Were family and friends who were getting quite soused
The nog had been spiked with some rum, I should say
It could have been Gosling’s or maybe Mount Gay
The children were nestled all snug in their beds
Drunk grown-ups downstairs with lampshades on their heads
There was pinot, merlot, and syrah being poured
And malbec and riesling and port and…good Lord!
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Dec 21
2009
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Stout’s owners have positioned their burger bar right in the middle of the newly revived Cahuenga corridor with bars like Burgundy Room, Beauty Bar and Velvet Margarita. Located in the same strip mall as Soi 56 and Big Wangs, the parking lot charges $7.00. Also, beware that the street meters aren’t free after 6pm like most of Los Angeles. Stout is open until 4am, perhaps calculated to cash in on ravenous bar-goers simply not soused enough to drive home.
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Dec 21
2009
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Audrey Saunders, the owner / mixologist behind Pegu Club in New York, has recently opened her LA outpost called The Tar Pit. After much rumor and speculation among the cocktail folks in LA, I'm happy to share my interview with the lady herself about her bar and the impetus behind it...
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Dec 17
2009
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One of the first nouveau-Belgian breweries in America has adventurously brewed the first Lambic-style beer traditionally brewed with the use of spontaneous fermentation in a koelschip in the U.S. The beer without a name, but already a reputation, is appropriately called Allagash Spontaneous.
