2014 Musical Beer Crawl - Echo Park, L.A.

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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. 

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. 

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). 

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.