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Head there the next time you’re looking for a place to drink dry-hopped saisons and meet someone with a color-coordinated tote bag. LA's massive craft beer wave of the 2010s has long subsided, but there are still plenty of great places to drink a local pint. But hanging out in an LA brewery means more than just drinking good beer—it's about having a good time, too.
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Switch up your after-dark agenda with our all-new late-night happy hour and late-night bites offered Thursday-Monday, perfect for late-night games and social gatherings. While enjoying a cold beverage, delicious food, and your favorite sports, we offer our guests a unique next-generation experience with our inventive menu of American tavern fare. One of the smallest breweries on this guide, Frogtown feels a bit like you’re hanging out in your friend’s garage, except there’s an industrial brewing set-up instead of an unused homebrew kit. The Lites Out pilsner is ideal if you’re there in the daytime (it’s only 4.1% ABV), but there's also a good selection of hazy and milkshake IPAs if you want to kick things up a bit in the evening. There's usually a food truck on-site most evenings, but you can also bring in food—on weekend afternoons our move is to walk over to Wax Paper right up the block for a post-pilsner sandwich. Originally from Georgia, Creature Comforts is a Downtown brewery in the same complex as Rossoblu and Dama.
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The industrial space has a large interior with plenty of TVs, plus a giant wrap-around front patio ideal for getting a little red on a Saturday afternoon. They’ve got around 12 different beers on tap ranging from Belgian-style pilsners to a sour ale, but we tend to go for the Bigger Dreams, a hazy IPA with heavy notes of tangerine and grapefruit. If you’re looking for a quick drink before dinner, Creature Comforts is a great low-key option. Paperback Brewing has very good beer, especially if you’re a hazy IPA connoisseur, but the biggest reason we love this Glendale brewery is its space.
Hair of the Dog
The beers here are brewed and poured in cask, which means robust flavors and little-to-no carbonation (it's a little odd to get used to, but quite tasty). Brick House Tavern + Tap is a relaxed, sports centric tavern with a seemingly endless assortment of hand-crafted cocktails and beers, paired with choices of quality appetizing tavern cuisines and snacks to enjoy. Pair that with sizeable patio space, open lounging available outside, and over 30 TVs, it's the perfect place to meet the crew over well-crafted drinks and delicious bites. There are plenty of sprawling warehouse breweries in LA, but Browuerji West in San Pedro beats them all in square footage.
MacLeod Ale Brewing Co.
Housed in a former car service station, All Season has indoor and outdoor seating, a row of skeeball machines, and a Chicas Taco window out back, so you don’t have to wander far for food. We also like that the short menu of draft beers is big on IPAs, including the citrusy Figure 8 that you can order by the pitcher. We offer a large selection of premium brews with over 30 selections to choose from all while enjoying your favorite teams on our panoramic view of 30+ TVs, allowing you to capture every angle of every play. While watching football’s fly into the end zone, tap into your comfort zone and choose from our large selection of bourbon and whiskey collections to sip on during your favorite games. We offer a large selection of premium brews with over 30 selections to choose from all while enjoying your favorite teams on our panoramic view of 30+TVs, allowing you to capture every angle of every play. While watching football's fly into the end zone, or the latest UFC title fight, tap into your comfort zone and choose from our huge selection of bourbon and whiskey collections to sip on during your favorite sporting event.
This brewery on the docks of Port of LA occupies a WWII-era naval warehouse so large it could host a regulation flag football game. Aside from the huge indoor taproom, there’s a big outdoor courtyard with food trucks and live music on weekends, and a marketplace selling local crafts across the street. Don’t miss the top-selling Dog Ate My Homework—a purplish, juicy blackberry saison—or Popfuji, a malty, refreshing unfiltered pilsner. Brick House Tavern + Tap is a relaxed, sports centric tavern with a seemingly endless assortment of hand-crafted cocktails and beers.
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From tiny tap rooms in the South Bay to sprawling warehouses in DTLA filled with games and dance floors, these are the 15 best breweries in LA. Open since late 2023, Solarc is one of the newer breweries in LA—and one of the most unique, too. Rather than a typical line-up of IPAs and lagers, this Glassell Park brewery specializes in gruit, a medieval style of beer made with bittering agents other than hops.
This all-Belgian brewery in Torrance was one of the first places on the West Coast to kick off the hazy/juicy IPA craze, with every brewery from here to Seattle following suit. Expect a rotating roster of food trucks in the evening, and a large selection of cans available to-go. The giant patio is filled with wooden benches, tree stumps, and metal structures, achieving something that feels like a grown-up summer camp where people overuse the word "dude." Plus, food pop-ups operate most nights.
Benny Boy Brewing
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At Solarc, that means beer flavored with things like wormwood, black tea, and turmeric, and fermented with wild yeasts collected around Los Angeles. The whole operation is bordering on being a Portlandia sketch, but there’s no denying that hanging for a few hours in their quirky, colorful space (the walls are literally covered in aluminum foil) is a great way to spend a Sunday. All Season Brewing in Mid-Wilshire is geographically central, making it an easy place to bring together people who live on opposite sides of the city.
While enjoying a cold beverage we offer our guests a true next generation experience with our inventive menu of American tavern fare. There's a solid menu of bar snacks menu with things like burgers and wings to fish sandwiches and kimchi, all way better than they need to be. This is where you should be drinking hoppy pilsners before a Dodgers game. If you’ve spent much time in the South Bay, you’ve probably driven past LA Ale Works' taproom in Hawthorne, a few blocks from SpaceX (and right across the street from another solid brewery, Common Space).
There’s a pleasant patio out front where you might spot a couple of toddlers with their tattooed parents. But the real scene is inside the garage, which has a long bar, a disco ball, and (on weekends) a DJ spinning vinyl. Most people come here to sip housemade IPAs and snack on masa-battered chicken wings during the day, but on Friday and Saturday nights, the dance floor is packed until 1am.
Ale Works is a good spot to host a party when you don't know how many people will show up. The massive warehouse tends to be full of 30-somethings gathered to discuss cryptocurrency or watch sports, and there's a great collection of IPAs, lagers, stouts, and sours to carry everyone through the night. There’s no food inside, but there’s usually vendors selling pizza, tacos, and burgers out front. When it’s warm, take advantage of outdoor picnic tables spread across the astroturf lawn. They also have a smaller tasting room in Culver City right next to the metro. Our easygoing and neighborhood aura makes for a perfectly curated setting to enjoy our broad variety of Happy Hour specials available Monday-Friday every week.
