West Coast brews pair with a trio of house-butchered meats at Hog’s Apothecary: Miss Piggy, a pork and pink lady apple sausage with soft herbs, Boss Hogg, a Louisiana-style all-pork hot link with cayenne and garlic, and Empire Of The Sun, a pork sausage flavored with citrus and Chinese five spice.
Los Angeles is an absolutely massive place, teeming with a multitude of people. If only a tiny percentage drank good beer, that would still be a staggering number of craft drinkers sprawled out between the mountains and the ocean.
Every West Coast city has a beer scene to make you sing, but not Los Angeles. That’s not to say bastions of beer excellence don’t exist in this humble burg. In Pasadena, Mark Jilg operates one such outlier—Craftsman Brewing Company.
