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Interview: beer pro Rory Snipes (Boneyard Bistro)
Food GPS - Food. Drinks. People. Rory Snipes is the bar manager at Boneyard Bistro in Sherman Oaks, where he’s worked with chef-owner Aaron Robins to create one of the best craft beer programs in Los...
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Interview: Beer Pro Tony Alcazar (The Bottle Room)
Food GPS - Food. Drinks. People. Tony Alcazar has been making sure that the City of Whittier has been both well fed and well stocked with craft beer via The Bottle Room in Uptown. We recently traded...
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Interview: brewmaster Lars Larson (Trumer Pils)
Food GPS - Food. Drinks. People. Trumer Pils recently started distributing their Pilsner to Los Angeles, so I corresponded by e-mail with brewmaster Lars Larson, who earned a degree as a...
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Interview: Roger Bott (LAB Brewing)
Food GPS - Food. Drinks. People. Roger Bott has been at the helm of The LAB Brewing Co. in Agoura Hills from the start in late 2011. The former Amgen employee, who goes by Dr. Hops, fashions beers...
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Interview: Gabe Gordon (Beachwood BBQ chef + beer pro)
Food GPS - Food. Drinks. People. Gabe Gordon has been at the leading edge of the Los Angeles craft beer movement since his days at Royal Clayton’s, when the downtown Arts District was still in its...
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Interview: Anne Conness (Simmzy’s + Tin Roof Bistro)
Food GPS - Food. Drinks. People. Chef Anne Conness, who oversees two branches of Simmzy’s in Manhattan Beach and Long Beach, and Tin Roof Bistro in Manhattan Beach, recently became a Certified Cicerone...
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Interview: beer pro An Bui (Mekong)
Food GPS - Food. Drinks. People. An Bui is convinced Mekong is For Beer Lovers, and he’s played a big part in ensuring that’s the case. His family’s Vietnamese restaurant debuted in Richmond in 1995,...
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Interview: beer pro Wayne Wambles (Cigar City Brewing)
Food GPS - Food. Drinks. People. With so many great breweries at the recent Firestone Walker Invitational Beer Fest, there was bound to be some that I would miss while I was there. Thanks to e-mail, I...
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Interview: beer pros Rob & Ron (Limited Release)
Food GPS - Food. Drinks. People. With so many great breweries at the recent Firestone Walker Invitational Beer Fest, there were bound to be some that I would miss while I was there. Thanks to e-mail, I...
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Interview: beer pro Dave Hodgins (Dry River Brewing)
Food GPS - Food. Drinks. People. Offering smooth sailing (and craft beer) since 2012, Dry River Brewing is the latest brewing operation to utilize Kickstarter to help them brew up a business. But...
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Interview: beer pro A.J. Stoll (Figueroa Mountain Brewing Co.)
Food GPS - Food. Drinks. People. Last week, Brew and You covered some beer spots to visit in the Central Coast. One of which is Figueroa Mountain. I spoke with brewmaster A.J. Stoll before the...
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Interview: beer pro Brian Hunt (Moonlight Brewing)
Food GPS - Food. Drinks. People. I had the blessed opportunity to chat for a long while with Brian Hunt from Moonlight Brewing in Santa Rosa while at this year’s Firestone Walker Invitational Beer Fest...
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Interview: beer pro Evan Price (Noble Ale Works)
Food GPS - Food. Drinks. People. On a recent Thursday night, Mohawk Bend hosted a Noble Ale Works mini-tap takeover. After sampling Gosebusters, a tea infused American version of the German Gose, and...
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Interview: beer pro Keith Gabbett (Goose Island Beer Co.)
Food GPS - Food. Drinks. People. Keith Gabbett came west with Goose Island Beer Co. as part of Migration Week, an event that shipped rare Goose Island beers across the country. After he returned home,...
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Interview: beer pro Hal Mooney (L.A. Beer Hop)
Food GPS - Food. Drinks. People. Brew & You ran into Hal Mooney at Smog City Brewing while he was in the midst of a L.A. Beer Hop, so no interview then. But the very next day, Mooney answered some...
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Interview: beer pro Lynne Weaver (Three Weavers Brewing Co.)
Food GPS - Food. Drinks. People. The Los Angeles brewing scene is bubbling with up-and-comers at all stages of development. Add Three Weavers Brewing Co. to the growing list that includes Dry River,...
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Interview: MacLeod Ale Brewing Co. beer pros
Food GPS - Food. Drinks. People. Another brewery is fermenting in the Valley, MacLeod Ale Brewing Company will be a seven-barrel production brewery with a tasting room in the heart of the San Fernando...
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Interview: Steve Stockman (Executive Producer of BrewDogs)
Food GPS - Food. Drinks. People. September 24 heralds the arrival of BrewDogs to Esquire TV. James Watt/a> and Martin Dickie, the extreme Scots of BrewDog, took leave of Scotland and filmed their...
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Interview: senior brewer Bill Batten (AleSmith Brewing Co.)
Food GPS - Food. Drinks. People. Bill Batten was a homebrewer and data storage professional who turned his full attention to craft beer after 9/11. He recently celebrated his 11th anniversary with...
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Interview: Modern Times Beer founder Jacob McKean
Food GPS - Food. Drinks. People. Jacon McKean, Glorious Leader of Modern Times Beer, who also dubbed himself Darth Executive, previously spent two years working for Stone Brewing Co. in Escondido...
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