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Hal Mooney tells us how his passion for beer lead to him to start LA Beer Hop brewery tour and offering guidance about the industry along the way.
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It back to veered to how -- who started his own.
Near blog actually and that has taken -- how how wonderful things start how did you get the idea and how are things going.
Hi -- yeah I knew it worked in other cities I knew I like these places so I figured I go ahead and just start.
Bringing people out to them as opposed just driving -- by myself.
And so you talked about being a fan of the -- aren't we off how did that turn into a business idea.
Along well I just knew that -- like you know people other than myself liked it.
And that it was a really growing saying not only in LA but nationwide.
On and just in the past year -- so LA has really started to kind of -- In its own way in the craft -- scene there's been people who've been here for the past three years or so kind of grand fathering into Iraq LA beer but it is in the past year some really really great new places popped -- -- -- -- -- why don't we -- certainly -- together.
So hot -- -- more exactly.
Basically we do to work so we have a fifteen passenger shuttle bus.
And we pick you up we take you ought to three per -- were reset your -- tastings talk about the beer -- how it's -- how -- mean we meet one of the birds are one of the places.
Generally get like an overall beer education wild.
We're drinking.
And how did the -- what are the various that you go to -- -- how -- -- sort of select.
Well -- it's -- -- is elect because there's not very many yet.
So we kind of do two different tour is when you -- on down on the westside the south bay towards the beach cities and in over towards essential part of LA.
And the eastern side eyes of the kind of a self select themselves until -- little.
Nicely nick groups on so -- to a -- -- three places in the kind of work out nicely in this geographic area.
Us and how we were talking earlier batten down here and -- as you see this closer to smaller -- becoming a growing trend is -- this ain't gonna let us.
At.
So literally hiking its very -- it's very nice because of these guys -- -- they wanna be small they're able to you know control their costs controller equality -- interesting things and really do it it's like that you know Kraft sort of art form.
So they're not growing too big they're not trying to get to why there really wanna stay -- hyper local.
So it -- in on this kind of nice competition between many different local -- As opposed to one.
Big very kind of gobbling up all the other once I'm so it's really nice -- trends to have you know some -- an -- town for those those people who liver and Aaron and summer on this side accounts for the people who above there and might -- hyper local.
-- and so it's -- really.
Nice friend for for communities to be -- part of.
I'm very cool -- outlet.
Have a website up it's LA and beer hot dot com and people can go on that website to find out more and find out edited -- -- do.
There favorite very -- that we appreciate heavier on.
You -- -- plan they can't.
