Cambria
Cambria is a Southern California lover and native who is passionate about taking advantage of the glorious drinking, eating and traveling the world has to offer. When she’s not learning about the people behind beer, booze and nom-noms, she balances her somewhat decadent life with fun stuff like skating, rocking out, and knitting with dogs on a mountaintop.
Posts by Cambria
Giveaway: Win Your Pal’s Ticket to Golden Road Brewing’s Grand Opening
Oct 13th
Golden Road Brewing debuted a couple of their LA-born brews around Los Angeles recently, which means it’s now time to party!
The Golden Road Brewing Grand Opening Festival is Sunday, October 16, and with a calendar gloriously overflowing with epic beer events thanks to LA Beer Week, we want to make sure you don’t miss this day in LA beer history.
Golden Road wants you to be there too. This giveaway is over, so get a ticket and come to the fiesta! They’ve provided a chance for you to bring a pal to the party for free! Buy a ticket TODAY (October 13) and you are eligible to enter to win one for your friend TODAY (October 13). Let’s get to it … More >
How to Navigate L.A. Beer Week’s Musical Beer Crawl in Echo Park
Oct 10th
Dear Los Angeles, L.A. Beer Week has officially begun TODAY! That means you have 14 days of winning opportunities to drink appreciate beers all over our expansive City of Angels. Beer dinners, meet the brewer nights, beer panels, beer festivals, pub crawls and so much more have filled the L.A. Beer Week events calendar, but there’s an event you are not allowed to overlook.
Yes, my children, the Musical Beer Crawl TOMORROW is an epic evening uniting 13 different music venues and craft beer pouring establishments on Echo Park’s W. Sunset Blvd. To enjoy the crawl, you must carry your free Musical Beer Crawl passport, entitling you to a host of great deals and special moments to cherish for the rest of your entire life. Here’s our lil outline on how we will own the night. You should join us. More >
How to Prepare for the Holy Trinity of Santa Monica’s BAM Fest in October
Sep 16th
Summer may be winding down, but in the beer world it’s always time for a festival. Just before LA Beer Week begins, BAM Fest in Santa Monica kicks off your October with over 24 breweries, tons of art, lots of music and plenty of sunshine. All of the proceeds from the festival go to the 18th Street Arts Center.
For today only until 6 PM, BAM Fest tickets are $30. This gets you a BAM Fest logo tasting glass and unlimited sampling, hours of live music, exploration of artist studios and galleries and the awesomeness that comes with having access to so many wonderful kinds of craft beer. Here’s how you can get the most out of BAM Fest this year. More >
Our Research Unveils New Not Healthy Eating Plate using USDA’s New MyPlate
Sep 15th
Harvard’s new Healthy Eating Plate based off of the USDA’s MyPlate diagram
You may have seen this baby in the news today. Harvard Researchers unveiled the new ideal diagram for healthy eating based on the government’s MyPlate icon. While it certainly is colorful and lacking any design beautifully rendered, we have been performing extensive drinking and eating research in the last year and a half for you, our readers.
Here’s a new option for the realists (aka the lovers of all things delicious, including beer and cheese). Presenting the Awesome Eating Plate … More >
Lancaster’s Kinetic Brewing Anticipates October Opening, Let the Flight and Physics Puns Begin
Aug 29th
If its every homebrewer’s dream to open their own brewery, then Steven “Sven” Kinsey is living the dream. When the opportunity arose to open a brewpub in downtown Lancaster, CA, he jumped (with two other owners), into what will be Lancaster’s brightest and shiniest brewpub yet. Though currently under construction, we had a chance to take a peek inside Kinetic Brewing and talk with homebrewer-gone-pro Sven. More >
Behold the Golden Guide to the Stone 15th Anniversary Celebration & Invitational Beer Festival
Aug 19th
It’s a big weekend in San Diego. Stone Brewing Co. is celebrating it’s 15th birthday at the Stone 15th Anniversary Celebration & Invitational Beer Festival. To enjoy the weekend as much as Steve and Greg are enjoying their anniversary beer above, consult this guide complete with mobile apps, beer tips, maps and more. More >
Blue Palms Brewhouse Anniversary — Drinking and Dunking with the “Best Beer List Ever” [PHOTOS]
Aug 16th
Hollywood’s Blue Palms Brewhouse turned three this year. To celebrate, the restaurant & bar’s team hosted a big beer garden complete with multiple beer stations, a massive cowleg, a dunk tank and over 60 great beers, including rare and special releases. More >
Official L.A. Beer Week Brew Announced: Unity, an Autumn Saison
Aug 10th
Photo: Brewing up Unity last year for L.A. Beer Week 2010
The L.A. Beer Week team has come to a decision. Last year, “Unity, L.A.’s Team beer“, a California Common (aka Steam beer) was brewed by the L.A. Beer Week Committee on a hot autumn day at Eagle Rock Brewery. This year, the creative crew came up with a brand new recipe but the name will remain. Eagle Rock Brewery Co-founder Jeremy Raub explains the Autumn Saison, a collaborative beer concocted by Raub and Craftsman’s Mark Jilg, which will be brewed with help from some of L.A.’s craft beer advocates.
Farm to Table, Fermenter to Glass at the Stone Brewing Co. World Bistro & Gardens FRESH! Dinner
Aug 4th
If a morning filled with gallivanting through the farms of San Diego county doesn’t exhaust you, then surely cooking a dinner for over 50 people would, right? Not so for Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens Executive Chef Alex Carballo. After a long and early morning of collecting fresh and local corn, duck, finger limes, mushrooms and more from five different destinations, Chef Alex whipped up a seven course meal for the quarterly FRESH! Dinner. More >
Gardening and Gallivanting with Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens Executive Chef Alex Carballo
Jul 29th
For several years, Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens has hosted their seasonal FRESH! Dinner, bringing local, organic ingredients to the faceholes of their patrons. The consistently sold out event features food the way it was meant to hit our bellies: free of artificial B.S., sourced from a local community, sliced, diced and served in the same day. We followed Executive Chef Alex Carballo all day for the latest dinner and got a behind-the-scenes look at what goes into making a FRESH! Dinner possible. More >
The Beginnings of Blue Palms Brew House: How Brian Lenzo and Better Beer Became BFFs
Jul 29th
Three years ago the Brian Lenzo helped bring the Blue Palms Brew House to Hollywood, bringing better beer to a city notorious for lacking quality bubbles. Come August 13 the restaurant and bar will celebrate its anniversary in true Lenzo fashion: a huge outdoor beer garden complete with special beer releases, cow legs to gnaw on, live music, and a very epic, beloved dunk tank. We sat down and talked to Lenzo about his humble beginnings and how his fine dining background helped change people’s perspective on beer. More >
Giveaway: ColLAboration Belgian Independence Day Beer Garden – Admission & Beer for Two
Jul 18th
ColLAboration, L.A.’s pop-up craft beer garden, is taking place this weekend on the Sunset Strip, and this time the celebration is in the name of Belgian Beers for Belgian Independence Day. Admission to the garden comes in the form of a special, fancy-pants, ColLAboration/Duvel beer glass. We have sets of glasses and beer tokens up for grabs for three lucky readers. Read on for instructions on how to enter. More >
Carmageddon Weekend, What Up!
Jul 14th
Surprise! The 405 freeway will be closed between the 101 and the 10 all weekend. If this is news to you, then it’s clear you have no idea what’s going on around Los Angeles. Thank goodness we can give you the Weekend, What Up! so you can find plenty of things to do in and around L.A., hopefully within walking, skating or biking distance to you. More >
