What's Happening in Southern California Beer This Week

The Bruery will be tapping a new firkin, as they do the first Friday of every month. This month's (Friday, November 7th) will be a hoppy strong golden ale called "Humulus Gold."

Lucky Baldwin's 12th Anniversary in conjunction with Stone Brewing Co. still has 1 week left. The tap list was posted here a week ago, the only new thing I know of that is on at the Sierra Madre location is a keg of Wipeout IPA.

Then of course on Saturday is the Firestone XII release at their Paso Robles location, which will surely attract beer geeks from many miles away. Then again it doesn't get much geekier than a dude wanting to fly from the west coast to Indiana just to pick up a keg of Three Floyds Dreadnaught IPA (a highly overrated beer) for his home keg system (saw this on RateBeer.com)....

And if you're big on barleywines, Naja's in Redondo Beach will be holding their Barleywine Fest starting this Wednesday the 5th. Looks like they'll have some nice vintages on tap too, including Bigfoot and Old Gaurdian back to '04, and Old Crustation to '05.