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Enjoy brews & vegan food this Saturday!

Yes, it’s finally going down this Saturday. Raw Possibility,  ZOMBIE BREWERY, and the locals are getting together to enjoy vegan food, beer, and live performances. Click here for the official facebook event page.


You can enjoy an extraordinary night in the ever-smoggy valley; Drink, smoke, and talk at your leisure by the fire-pit.; and shake your tail feather to the ones-and-twos of the living room DJ. Beer connoisseurs, foodie enthusiasts, live music aficionados, local musicians, every skin-color artists, ill illustrators, logical masterminds, lyrical wordsmiths, mad scientist, 3-D render-ers, suspenders of psychological time, drunken vagAbonds/writers this event is for you.

The LA Vegan Beer Fest 2012 Experience

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After much anticipation and excitement, the LA Vegan beer fest went down this last Saturday at the Roxy theatre on the Sunset strip. A part-time shift of drinking diverse beer brews and munching on tasty foods was a dream come true, a career I wouldn’t mind having ;)

The VIP tickets were awesome! $10 more for a full 8oz glass branded cup, upper deck access to the VIP lounger where two higher alcohol content brews were served, free bottled water, kick-ass Bruce Lee films on the flatscreen, funky James Brown beats bumping through the Pioneer speakers, and and great window views of the Los Angeles building architecture—all wonderful elements to gawk at while in an inebriated state.

The food was too great. I personally was impressed by Mandoline Grill’s Banh Mi sandwich! The french baguette bread was tender yet crunchy and oh-so-warm, it tore apart beautifully. I shared it with two new vegan friends I met at the beer fest —Seth and Sangetta. Other notable foods were the Plant for the People tacos, the two toppings per taco is a LA luxury, and Seabirds truck blew me out the water with their jackfruit spicy tacos and famous beer battered deep fried avocado tacos. I also indulged in*Azucar Fries by Fresh Fries truck— Mexican styled sweet potatoe fries with dashes of cinammon and brown sugar. The ketchup was the finishing touch on the fries—surprisingly delectable for a side dish.

The brews—- oh man the brews—knocked the entire event out the park (second only to the free merch, stickers, pens, bottle openers, key chains, and other trinkets we scavenged for at the fest). The tasteful selection of the microbrews best ales, hefeweizens, and bachs just made the event all the better. Mostly all the tents that gave out samples or full 8oz pours truly brought their finest crafts to the table. I came back for seconds, and had a favorite brew per tent. The beer that takes the LA vegan beer fest trophy, in my mind, was Fireman’s Brunette, which ran out because it was in such high demand. The flavorful chocolately taste mixed with just a right bitterness in the aftertaste made my mouth feel like a salivating Pavlovian dog.

CASE IN POINT: Vegan beer is amazingly good.

Proceeds for this event went to the California Wildlife Conservation Organization. 

The Gentle Barn revisted & Franken’s Gourmet Franks!

Last Sunday, Raw Possibility founder returned to The Gentle Barn for a second time in a row. The barn was filled with a plethora of personalities… and one such personality caught our eye and taste-buds: FRANKEN’S Gourmet Franks manned by an epic mustache and a beautiful curly-haired babe standing below a shaded awning. The kiosk is a vendor on wheels that parks on Sundays at the entrance of the Gentle Barn. Upon entering the barn, we noticed a few customers who came solely to purchase Franken’s gourmet franks. According to the Franken’s Gourmet Franks advertisement, the hot dogs or “franks” are 100% plant-based. On the side of the cart, is a table filled with vegan condiments–two rows of which are fresh jalapeno, onions, cole slaw, and “bacon” bits to slather on your frank. We ordered “The Creature” and “The Witch” and–despite our expectations–the monster mash did not play when we bit into them. But, the dog did not disappoint! In fact, for customers scorched in desert heat, sweating from having walked around a dry barn for the last two hours, we still managed to enjoy the hotness of a dog kept warm with what seemed like a gas-operated burner. The Frankenstand is parking its vegan cart at the Gentle Barn every Sunday at the entrance (until further notice). You can also find them at Figueroa Produce on Tuesdays and Bedrock Studios on Wednesdays.

Frankenstand is definitely a treat for us Valley folks. Instead of driving through the horror of LA horrors–traffic—why not take a scenic route over the hill and into the Canyons of Canyon Country to bite into an American staple made vegan: the hot-dog.