Beth Demmon

Two features for Craft Beer & Brewing - one about Farmhouse Ciders and one spotlight on single varietals by Bauman Ciders.

Love Handles - O'Brien's Pub in San Diego, CA and Five Cidermakers to Know in 2024

Want to get into some great cider but don’t know where to start? Beth Demmon, author of The Beer Lover’s Guide to Cider, names five who could be the faces of American cider’s future, from innovative newcomers to groundbreaking icons of the craft.
Monique Gray, Momentum Cider
Long Beach, California
From music to massage therapy, motherhood, and beyond, Monique Gray has led myriad lives. After the pandemic, however, she shifted gears and turned a cidermaking hobby into her next career. Once lau...

From our Love Handles files on the world’s great beer bars: For more than two decades, O’Brien’s Pub has been one of the most influential drinking spots in one of the country’s most dynamic beer cities.
What it is: Before San Diego became the “Capital of Craft,” there was O’Brien’s Pub—an unassuming and somewhat dingy but always cozy drinking hole on the end of a strip mall, completely encircled by restaurants serving Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese, Korean, and other Asian cuisines. When local ...

From our Love Handles files on beer bars we love: L.A.’s Glendale Tap offers a retro feel, 52 taps full of great local beers, and neighborhood vibes.
What it is: Before the L.A. craft-beer scene really started booming, there was the Glendale Tap. The bustling taproom and bottle shop drips with vintage design elements—note the bar top made from reclaimed bowling lanes—but its 52 taps and accompanying bottle and can list go far beyond the old school, offering brews from around the corner as wel...

From our Love Handles files on beer bars we love: L.A.’s Glendale Tap offers a retro feel, 52 taps full of great local beers, and neighborhood vibes.
What it is: Before the L.A. craft-beer scene really started booming, there was the Glendale Tap. The bustling taproom and bottle shop drips with vintage design elements—note the bar top made from reclaimed bowling lanes—but its 52 taps and accompanying bottle and can list go far beyond the old school, offering brews from around the corner as wel...

Love Handles feature in Issue 55: Glendale Tap

Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine's October/November 2021 issue

Featured brewery in the fall 2020 print issue of Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine.

Feature of lauded craft beer bar Original Gravity Public House in San Jose, Calif.

Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine, print issue for February-March 2021.

Featured bar in the March/April 2021 print issue of Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine.

Spotlight of The Avenue Pub, a craft beer bar in NOLA for the fall 2020 print issue of Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine.