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I was happy to
discover that my week in Los Angeles overlapped with the start of LA
Beer Week (20 September 2014). The 6th annual celebration was the
first to be organised by the newly formed Los Angeles County Brewers
Guild. There are 22 breweries in the Guild and Jeremy Raub, co-owner
of Eagle Rock Brewery, is the inaugural president.
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I met Jeremy in
Sunset Beer Co at the start of a 'Musical Beer Crawl' along the Echo
Park section of Sunset Boulevard. I also met Sean Flannery and
Cambria Griffith from The Bruery, based in nearby Orange County.
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So
Happen It's Tuesday on coconut was the memorable version of the The
Bruery's 11.3% ABV draught American Double Stout that Tim could only
drink slowly! Cambria, the Crawl organiser, handed out sunglasses
from her goody bag before we headed west to Two Boots Pizza for live
music from Kingwhistler and a pour from Cambria's big bottle of The
Bruery's Oude Tart with Cherries, a barrel aged 7.5% ABV Flemish
style red ale. The sun had set by the time we reached our third stop.
Mohawk Bend is a bar and restaurant in an old cinema building (The
Ramona Theater).
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There are 72 taps on the long bar including a full
range from Golden Road Brewing e.g. Point The Way IPA. Tony Yanow,
the co-owner of Golden Road Brewing which brews and cans beer in LA,
previously took over Tony's Darts Away bar in Burbank and then opened
Mohawk Bend in 2011. At Mohawk Bend, a DJ was playing vinyl records
from the balcony and I met Randy Clemens, a food and beer writer.
Cambria handed out glowsticks before we headed east along Sunset Boulevard to El Prado.
