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Created by Los Angeles Updated On: October 21, 2013
LA started catching on to craft beer in the past 6 years. The wave started with bars, continued with breweries and is now washing over restaurants. Here are 13 of our fave places for craft beer in LA.
Los Angeles: One of the best facets may be Harding’s Ultimate Flights, with four-beer flights organized stylistically, by guest brewery or theme, all created for the sake of variety and education.
Los Angeles: Enjoy a promenade-facing patio and a wide variety of house-brewed beers, many with punny names, including a Berliner Weisse called Tart Simpson and a milk stout named Udder Love.
532 S Western Ave (btwn 5th & 6th St), Los Angeles, CA
Bar · Wilshire Center - Koreatown · 131 tips and reviews
Los Angeles: Beer Belly recently appeared on “Diners, Drive-ins and Dives” and is now churning out more beer-friendly food than ever, like Death By Duck, duck fat French fries w/ duck skin cracklins & duck confit.
6124 Hollywood Blvd (at Gower St), Los Angeles, CA
Bar · 106 tips and reviews
Los Angeles: Blue Palms has become popular with concertgoers, football fans, and craft beer aficionados, who flock to Hollywood to feast from 24 rotating tap handles.
Gastropub · South Robertson · 360 tips and reviews
Los Angeles: Father's Office 2.0 boasts a long bar with twin sets of 36 taps, plentiful communal tables on an upraised patio, and an increasingly sophisticated menu.
4227 San Fernando Rd (at Magnolia St), Glendale, CA
Pub · 30 tips and reviews
Los Angeles: The vintage-style interior includes a pair of red pool tables, a long wood bar, cushioned banquettes, gas handles and rusted tools behind bird wire, vintage signs for Schlitz, Hamm's and Old Style.
Los Angeles: The pub’s up and running, they’ve got an adjacent event space and private drinking parlor, Chloe’s, plus bottling and barrel aging facilities, large-scale events, and even yoga classes on the lawn.
426 N Fairfax Ave (btwn Rosewood & Oakwood Ave), Los Angeles, CA
Burger Joint · Mid-City West · 123 tips and reviews
Los Angeles: They curate 12 taps with a keen eye for balance, as well as carry Scoops ice cream in vanilla that factors into a now notorious beef float that helped to launch the beer float trend in L.A.
Los Angeles: The space is built for hanging out, with a near nightly DJ, a rotating fleet of food trucks that park in the lot, and a BBQ grill that hides behind fencing.