Los Angeles & Orange County Beer Guide (consolidated BA threads)

Discussion in 'Pacific' started by mrcraft, Oct 10, 2013.

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  1. mrcraft

    mrcraft Grand Pooh-Bah (3,396) Dec 15, 2012 California
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    I'm creating this thread to help visitors and new craft beer drinkers find places to buy and drink craft beers in LA and OC. We often get asked for advice and recommendations. Rather than re-invent the wheel each time or ask the OP to search the threads, I thought a consolidated list of previous threads would be more helpful.
    It would be nice to answer specific questions the OP may have, and then paste the link to this thread for general recommendations.
    Please add threads I missed.
    Los Angeles:
    Travelling to SOCAL for the first time!
    Taking a trip to LA, NEED HELP
    Coming to LA on Business - LAX
    Yet another thread asking about LA beer info
    LA beer guidance
    Traveling to Los Angeles
    Places to hit in and around Los Angeles
    Traveling to LA for a week - where to go?
    Best place to grab a beer: DTLA
    Beer bar not far from LAX with SoCal beers?
    LA for a week suggestions please.
    Travelling to LA (1st time) before GABF for a few days
    Any decent beer bars near Van Nuys
    First Cali Beer Trip, HELP!
    LA area Brewpubs/Gastropubs
    Los Angeles Bottleshop recommendation?
    Best bottle shop for Russian river in L.A
    Bottle Shops - Downtown LA
    Visiting L.A. Best Beer Stops I should hit up.
    Bottle Shops LA area.
    Best Beer Stores in Los Angeles
    Los Angeles Bottle Shop Help
    ISO: Beer Store suggestions in Los Angeles
    Orange County:

    LA/Orange County Area Must Stop Spots?
    Beers, Brewery and Brewpubs around Anaheim CA
    Anaheim
    Finding PtE in Irvine?
    Costa Mesa bottle shops?
    In orange county for the week, from NJ
    craft beer places to recommend in Laguna Beach or Irvine area?
    Where to buy CA IPA's in Orange County?
    Anaheim?
    Beer in Anaheim
    Disney resort Anaheim - beer guide!
    Restaurants near Anaheim with good tap lists
    Beer stores in Orange County.
    Disneyland trip - anything in this corporate wilderness?
     
  2. Wowcoolman

    Wowcoolman Pooh-Bah (1,660) Sep 25, 2010 California
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    I don't see the word Pliny in any of these threads.
     
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  3. JayORear

    JayORear Grand Pooh-Bah (3,058) Feb 22, 2012 California
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    This is awesome, mrcraft. Good advocacy and helpfulness.
     
  4. Lostmango

    Lostmango Initiate (0) Jun 29, 2013 California

    Definately a good idea. Btw wowcoolman its there, just abbreviated PtE
     
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  5. rossthefireman

    rossthefireman Initiate (0) Oct 20, 2008 California

    Good thread. I got slightly flamed in the Mountain section for asking about Las Vegas beer. They should do the same over there.
     
  6. Korker

    Korker Initiate (0) Dec 13, 2010 California

    Great work! Will definitely be helpful for many.
     
  7. nicks6217

    nicks6217 Initiate (0) Jan 15, 2010 California

    see if you can get he bros to pin it, at least that will clear up those "Visiting LA/OC" threads.
     
  8. Retsinis

    Retsinis Pooh-Bah (1,622) Sep 25, 2009 Arizona
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    They have in the past not opted to pin such threads, indicating that data can become outdated (businessed close, etc.) or that perhaps a poster might have a very specific questions, and he/she could search previous threads for hours, and not get their answer. Plus, many, even with a Pin, still would post their threads and questions regardless. Also, there is the places link, that already has lists of places by city as well.

    While I applaud the OP for this effort, and personally see the benefit in a pin thread, I also understand the Bros' point of view.
     
  9. grilledsquid

    grilledsquid Initiate (0) Jul 10, 2009 California
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    A wiki-type pinned thread might solve the problem of outdated info.
     
  10. mrcraft

    mrcraft Grand Pooh-Bah (3,396) Dec 15, 2012 California
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    I emailed the bros. yesterday. I don't think this thread will be pinned for reasons stated above. That's fine. We already had a new thread posted today about bottle shops in Anaheim. Rossthefireman pasted a link to this thread, which I'm sure answered his question.

    One reason I created the thread was even though I'm local to SoCal, searching for this information in the Pacific forum is not always straightforward since the search queries need to be precise and will not return loose results like Google, so you need some familiarity with the area and title/contents of past threads. For example, you can't search terms like "la" in this database. By having hyperlinked thread titles, a person can pick the thread(s) he/she thinks might yield answers the quickest.

    I agree a thread like this needs to be updated occasionally, but it should be useful for a little while at least.
     
  11. 9uns

    9uns Initiate (0) Jun 5, 2013 California

    Awesome thread! Let's keep this thread somewhere at the top for all our BA SoCal visitors as there's a wealth of information here.
     
  12. UnknownKoger

    UnknownKoger Pooh-Bah (1,895) Jul 9, 2010 California
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    you're a scholar and a gentleman
     
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