18 Best Breweries in Los Angeles for Craft Beer

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• Angel City Brewery
• Cocktails and coffee, beer and cider, chocolate and wine: Where to get L.A.’s best drinks
• THE PERFECT BEER, AND NOTHING LESS
• The 7 Best Breweries in Los Angeles, CA
• Barebottle Brew Company
• Sign up for an exclusive brewery Tour Experience
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Nearly all of them are small, independent, family-run breweries that depend on steady business from neighborhood locals and new visitors alike. In 2015, this newspaper published a guide to “the best craft beer in L.A.” with a map of the “more than 30 craft breweries and brewpubs” across the county. Located in the bonafide craft beer hotspot that is the Arts District, Mumford Brewing is where you’ll want to head if you’re looking for collaborations with cool breweries such as Other Half from Brooklyn and MadeWest in Ventura. Owner and brewer Peter Mumford is known for pushing the boundaries on Hazy IPAs, but has proven equally adept at sticky-sweet stouts as demonstrated in their Stick Figures series.

Angel City Brewery

Benny Boy just lends itself well for inviting a bunch of friends or family out for a night. With both cider and beer on tap, everyone can drink their favorites and the warm, charming space means you never really want to leave. So when we hear about a taproom that brews both beer and cider, well, our ears perk up. Think complex but highly drinkable takes on Belgian-style beers and pilsners—such as Time Scoop and the aforementioned Popfuji.

Cocktails and coffee, beer and cider, chocolate and wine: Where to get L.A.’s best drinks

For a more classic IPA, their flagship Mayberry IPA is a perfectly West Coast hop-bomb, highlighting Mosaic hops. One of the best, their Coffee Porter, is an excellent example of this less-than-hyped style. Roasty, and bitter, but rich and balanced, the porter is a refreshing black beer with notes of chocolate and vanilla.

THE PERFECT BEER, AND NOTHING LESS

If you choose to visit their Long Beach location, you can also partake in their excellent BBQ fare and also find some unique, barrel-aged sours from their nearby Blendery. Ohana Brewing Co.'s actual brewery may be located in a Downtown warehouse, but its tasting room is far from industrial, and far from the actual brewery. This family-run operation—which first began in a garage in 2014—now slings 10 incredible beers at its Alhambra storefront, on which a "Ohana Brewing Co" sign is inked in Hawaiian-inspired script. The broad offerings include Tiki on the Beach, a tropical blonde ale infused with hibiscus cranberry; No Sleepy Time, a coffee stout; and a Spa Water Saison with cucumber and lemongrass. This Lincoln Heights spot is frequently crowded thanks to its ample indoor-outdoor hangout space, quality brews (and cider), ongoing events and parties, and wide range of pop-up food nights. The Arts District’s 17,000-square-foot playland of a brewery has it all with over 30 beers on tap, a full bar, dartboards, skee ball, cornhole sets, and a ping pong table.

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The brewery’s latest release is the Laces Out, a West Coast IPA with Chinook, Citra and Simcoe hops, and Faderer, a crisp West Coast pilsner. ESBC recently celebrated their 10th anniversary and features some of the hoppiest beers you’ll find in LA, plus a wide selection of IPAs. Their mastery is demonstrated with a Triple IPA that’s simultaneously strong and aggressive, while still being extra drinkable. Or opt for their 2020 Old Jetty bourbon-barrel-aged barley wine that clocks in at over 14% ABV, for something heartier. With dozens of taps and a lot of hard-to-source beer, Glendale Tap has emerged as one of the city’s best beer bars over the past decade.

The 7 Best Breweries in Los Angeles, CA

For Angelenos that place is Enegren Brewing, which focuses on German-style lagers and ales, with a communal beer hall, views of the brewery, and a large outdoor biergarten. Located just outside of LA proper, sipping on their excellent single-hop pilsners is worth the drive and there are 12 beers on tap to choose from. One of the latest additions to LA’s brewing scene brings both beer and cider to Lincoln Heights, with a large patio to enjoy them in. Opened by husband-and-wife team Ben Farber and Chelsey Rosetter, Benny Boy brews beers in the old-world tradition, which Ben learned during an apprenticeship in Belgium.

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It’s a pretty perfect poetic representation of the brewery, if we do say so ourselves. The Los Angeles brewery has two locations and we’d highly recommend checking out both if time permits. But, if you must choose, we’d send you to the blendery where all sorts of funky wonders go down. Homage’s beers have peppered our “Best Of” lists over the years, from “The 20 Best Beers to Drink in Summer 2021” to “The 20 Best Beers We Drank in 2020.” This is a true gem that’s worth the drive. Luckily, the bartenders are also highly knowledgeable about Monkish’s many bottle, can, and tap offerings and, frankly, the brewery is killing it on social media. In 2015, Sherwin Antonio and Kirk Nishikawa turned a drunk promise from high school into Glendale’s first microbrewery.

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This includes “Greater El Monte” and other parts of the San Gabriel Valley down to Southeast L.A. It all started with a visit to a brewery in Washington with my grandpa when I was just 3. If you do visit, you’ll find yourself in a gorgeous garden space with soft sand gulfs, wooden benches, and firepits. But if you want to truly drink in Benny Boy, go for the Snakebite—half beer and half cider in a glass.

This unfussy brewery focuses on the brews, with high ceilings and giant fermentation barrels. Opt for one of the many selections from the taproom, especially the fermented Michelada. Really, all you need to supply is the ingredients, and the quickest (and cheapest) way to do that is with leather. A hunting camp generates hides while also producing meat for food, so that’s your best option. Backyard goat sheds also generate some hides, but the setup costs 25 Regional Wealth, so it’s better to wait. Once you have a supply of hides, you’ll need a tannery (4 timber) to turn hides into leather that will then sell in the marketplace.

Started in 1996 by a small group of home brewers in San Diego, Ballast Point has a 20-plus-year... For an experience unlike any other, head to Benny Boy while you’re in town. On the cider side, Benny Boy focuses on old-world European classics with a California twist. Such as the Harvest Handshake, a sparkling rosé cider collab with Pali Wine Co. featuring Pippin apples and Pinot Noir skin contact.

Carving out its own style in Downtown L.A., Mumford Brewing has amassed a loyal following with its dedication to the craft. Brothers Todd and Peter Mumford started their small family brewery and taproom in 2015. In the heart of Pomona’s quaint downtown, the nano-brewery started as a Kickstarter baby but has grown into a formidable member of the Los Angeles beer scene.

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Bob Kunz and brewing team are multi-threat, style wise, but increasingly known for their pilsners such as the crisp Timbo, with Citra and Mosaic hops. HPB is also a serial collaborator with the likes of Firestone Walker from Venice and Other Half Brewing from New York. The food menu features elevated bar fare like Spicy Sesame Chicken Tots, a Crispy Chicken Biscuit, and a bacon-wrapped Wagyu beef Street Dog. It is not easy to medal in the ultra-competitive IPA category at the Great American Beer Festival, which makes brewer Erick Garcia’s recent bronze medal all the more impressive. Taking over the former Firestone Tire outlet, much of the original architecture and design has been preserved, with the addition of a glass-encased 15-barrel brewhouse, plus indoor-outdoor seating. All Season positions itself as a bar first, with well drinks and craft cocktails available alongside a lengthy beer list that includes crushable American- and Italian-style pilsners, hoppy IPAs, malt-centric lagers, and rustic saisons.

That’s not counting the brewpubs, craft beer bars and gastropubs that populate the map and add to a growing list of tap offerings around town. Since 2015, a proliferation of breweries opening in places like San Gabriel, Montebello and Whittier has closed the gaps and put the greater Eastside on L.A.’s craft beer map. According to the Los Angeles Brewers Guild, there are 95 breweries and 111 designated destinations producing more than 5,000 unique beers in 4,751 square miles. While that’s still not as many as San Diego, it is plenty to choose from, leaving craft beer drinkers here with one less thing to defend (don’t get us started on the whole comparing L.A. to New York City). Situated across the street from Los Angeles State Historic Park, Highland Park Brewery is a lovely spot to sit on a patio with a craft beer in hand.