Category: Follow the LAAW
Follow the LAAW! Join John and Kip as they jump through the many hoops on the road to opening their brewery, Los Angeles Ale Works.
Follow the LAAW: Kickstarter On Track – 35K Stretch
On March 8th, 2013, the Los Angeles Ale Works Kickstarter hit its $25,000K goal. The money is aimed at procuring a fermentor and keg washer for the contract brewing portion of the operation. With nearly two week left in the […]
Follow the LAAW: Excel and the Finance of Beer
The Business Plan Is it really necessary? Everyone that has considered starting a business has heard from at least one person (and probably more) that you can’t do it without a business plan. It’s the “great equalizer.” “It separates the men from […]
Follow the LAAW: A Big Month – Kickstarter
UPDATE – LOS ANGELES ALE WORKS KICKSTARTER IS LIVE Crowd Sourcing On February 15th, Los Angeles Ale Works will be utilizing the crowd sourcing social hub, Kickstarter. All the pertinent info will be within the campaign itself, but we wanted […]
Follow the LAAW: Collaboration
col·lab·o·rate - intransitive verb \kə-ˈla-bə-ˌrāt\ 1: to work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor 2: to cooperate with or willingly assist an enemy of one’s country and especially an occupying force 3: to cooperate with an agency or instrumentality with which […]
Follow the LAAW: Something for Everyone
Have you ever had small batch brewed craft soda? No? Well it might just changed the way you think about your favorite soft drink. Craft soda is incredibly tasty and is actually not that hard to make. Let me start […]
Follow the LAAW: Thai Tea Dynasty
We’ve recently discovered the wonders of brewing with Tea in both alcoholic and non-alcoholic recipes. Ketsara, our Thai Tea soda, debuted with great success at the Pacific Gravity Home Brewers Club soda competition, where it was voted best soda. The prize […]
Follow the LAAW: BottleMark
There are few things that add as much excitement to an already great home brew or commercial beer as labels and bottlecaps. We’ve been incredibly lucky to have Ken Barnes as part of our team. His label artwork, Los Angeles […]
The State of LAAW: To Dump a Beer
Saturday September 8th, 2012 marked a sad day for Los Angeles Ale Works. We officially dumped our first batch of commercial beer, Gams-Bart, down the drain. For us the decision to dump the beer was both complicated and simple. The […]
The State of LAAW: The Business
John and I are happy to report that we now have actual serious equity in the company and not just a massive amount of sweat equity. We recently purchased nearly 200 plastic kegs from Plastic Kegs of America. This amount […]
Follow The LAAW: The Gypsy II – Diluting an Industry
John and I were recently told that what we are doing, gypsy brewing, ninja brewing, whatever you want to call it, is “diluting the industry.” The idea that two guys from home brewing beginnings could brew out of another person’s […]