In case you missed it , winter turned to spring last hebdomad . Yeah , we did n’t notice either , but just because there are no season in LA and Orange County does n’t mean there are no seasonal beer . As we spend the next few calendar month train to fade this summer , here are 14 local springtime beer to pledge flop now ( no , earnestly – they might run out soon , so drink them like mightily now ) .
El Segundo Hop Tanker
Double IPA , 9.2%El SegundoLet it be known – 2016 is the year of the freshie . El Segundo ’s newest foreign mission to get its orca hoppy beer from tank to taste in under 12 hours , making each monthly “ Day One ” unloosen the freshest around . March at El Segundo entail Hop Tanker , the only clock time this class that the dank , red-hot ( yet somehow balanced ? ) double IPA will arrive at bottle . Get it while it ’s fresh , or , you know , waitress until next calendar month ’s beer .
Monkish Select Monk 4
Quadruple , 10.3%TorranceSelect Beer Store is the best little nursing bottle shop and bar in the South Bay . Monkish Brewing is the sound Belgian - only brewery in the South Bay . Together , they make the best collaborationism beer , release every March in honor of Select ’s anniversary . In the past they ’ve done funky dry - hop saisons and more , but this year , the beer is a quadruple . Because Select is turning four . Get it ? Got it . Good .
Beachwood Thrillseeker
IPA , 7.1%Long BeachJulian Shrago is the IPA whisperer . He ’s made more than 30 dissimilar ones since opening Beachwood BBQ and Brewing in Long Beach almost five twelvemonth ago but only a few have see repetition brewage . Thrillseeker is an over - the - top West Coast IPA made with a bubbling caldron of Centennial , Chinook , Summit , and Simcoe hops , then dry - hopped with more Chinook and Simcoe . It ’s free a couple of fourth dimension a year , but it especially go away well with a March or April beach day .
Alosta RED
American red ale , 6.4%CovinaNot many people know about Alosta , a neighborhood brewery in the sleepy-eyed community of interests of Covina , east of LA . But they make keen beers , including its latest , RED , a commemorating hoppy red ale available in nursing bottle and on draft , and brewed to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the ‘ 80s BMX masterpiece filmRAD .
Noble Ale Works The Funk Shall Be Within You
Belgian - style pale ale , 5.4%AnaheimAny beer that ’s name after a Kendrick Lamar reference has to have the bollock to back it up , and luckily Noble ’s The Casimir Funk Shall Be Within You series does n’t disappoint . A series of three Brett feeding bottle - conditioned beers relinquish in this last calendar month , these Belgian - way pale ales are only available for purchase and consumption at the barroom , so use the 750ml bottles to cleanse your palate between sampler of Naughty Sauce , Orange Mocha Frappuccino , or their fifth anniversary beer , VI$ION .
Brouwerij West My First Rodeo
Brett saison , 6%San PedroThis is the first outflow that gypsy beer maker Brouwerij West has a brewhouse to call its own . And it ’s make believe the most of it by experimenting with lemony , mixed fermentation , and specialty grain ale that are some of the more complex in LA . My First Rodeo , a Brett saison , was first ( and only ! ) stream at the LA Beer Week kickoff festival in 2014 , and make a triumphant , funky issue this spring at Brouwerij West ’s historical San Pedro storage warehouse .
Craftsman Brewing Triple White Sage
Belgian - style tripel , 9%PasadenaTriple White Sage is LA ’s original seasonal beer , which is appropriate since Craftsman is the original LA guile brewery . Every twelvemonth , owner Mark Jilg hikes into the San Gabriel Mountains and picks fresh sage that he expend to brew this herbaceous Belgian triple . A little spicy , a quite a little sweet , and with more sage - per - square in than an ashram , this beer is by all odds deserving the postponement .
Cismontane Double Rainbow
Double IPA , 8.7%Rancho Santa MargaritaRemember that amazing viral picture of a former MMA fighter watching a double rainbow from his front porch and getting all aroused over date “ the eye of god ” ? Well , back in 2011 , it inspired the beer maker at Cismontane to name their next beer Double Rainbow . turn out , the Citra and Cascade double IPA was bloody delicious and it ’s returned each year around this time to remind us of the beaut of mother Earth ( and of meaty - but - equilibrise double IPAs ) .
Good Beer Company Sun Juice
Farmhouse wit , 5%Santa AnaSure , “ The Good Beer Company ” is a pretty not - so - humble thing to name your brewery , but it could n’t be more accurate for this beer - making shopfront on Downtown Santa Ana ’s “ Calle Cuatro . ” In addition to IPAs , chile beer and other experiments , the Good Beer Company has also been killing it with foetid farmhouse ales ( like Wild Lady ) and easy - drinking Belgian - elan beer like Sun Juice . A Belgian wit on farmhouse - style chap , Sun Juice is made with coriander and grapefruit tanginess – the perfect spring beer .
Ladyface Ale Companie Blue-Belly Barleywine
Barleywine , 10.6%Agoura HillsOK , so maybe a heavy , odorous barleywine is n’t the most ideal style for a California spring daylight , but when and ifthe ira of El Niño come storm back , you ’ll be thankful that Ladyface Ale Companie has provided you with the option to warm up with their annual Blue - Belly Barleywine . More than just a square annual release , Blue Belly also ends up on tap in unlike magnetic declination , from versions dry hop with Mosaic and Amarillo to one age in Maker ’s Mark bbl .
Bottle Logic Sour Prince
Wild ale , 7.3%AnaheimSpringtime means well-chosen day of remembrance to Anaheim ’s Bottle Logic Brewing , for which they go all out with an entire week – yes , seven whole day – of particular feeding bottle releases , sole tappings , effect , and more . We get most excited for Sour Prince , a edition of their year - round French saison Tattered Prince , that gets soured in oak barrels for over a year . see Bottle Logic ’s Facebook page for info on the “ Week of Logic . ”
Transplants Peep Show
Chocolate stout , 6.9%PalmdalePeep Show ’s name might evoke trope of a strip society or burlesque show , when in fact , this beer is as innocent as it get for something that ’s almost 7 % alcohol . Just in sentence for Easter , Antelope Valley ’s newest brewery , Transplants , threw over 600 marshmallow Chicks into the fermentor with a cocoa stout made with organic blue cocoa powder . The solution is a seraphic , sugary , chocolatey beer that we only wish had come in our childhood Easter basket .
Riip Beer Company Caribou Lou
Triple IPA , 11.5%Huntington BeachRiip ’s Huntington Beach relishing elbow room is just steps from the water , so it ’s no surprisal all their beer are ready for leisurely drunkenness on the moxie . These IPA - bed beer maker have only been formally opened a few months , but are already making hop heads horny with their West Coast - elan single and twofold IPAs . Their latest , a triple IPA called Caribou Lou , is as crisp and clammy as anything else on gulp – with an 11.5 % ABV that ’ll make your hop into the sea that much more hard .
Highland Park Hello, LA
IPA , 7%Highland ParkNothing articulate springtime in LA like Highland Park Brewery ’s flagship IPA – in bum ! That ’s right-hand , the new reigning title-holder of the LA IPA Fest ( win with the Simcoe - loaded Bonkers IPA ) are releasing a young raft of Hello , LA , the IPA that started it all on April 8th , and it will be their first beer to make its room into aluminum promotion .
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Ladyface Ale Company
El Segundo Brewing
Courtesy of Beachwood Thrillseeker
Alosta Brewing Co.
The Good Beer Co.
Riip Beer Company
The Hermosillo
