Top 6 Los Angeles Breweries to Watch in 2013

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San Pedro Brewing Company's beer sampler

3. San Pedro Brewing Company:
2013 won't be the year that San Pedro Brewing Company's beers become worth drinking; it will hopefully be the year everyone realizes that the 13 year-old brewpub's beers have worth drinking all along. Since brewer Jason Welke came onboard in 2006, the Pedro Pilsner, Harbor Hefeweizen and Point Fermin Pale have continually pulled in awards from the L.A and San Diego county fairs, commercial beer competitions and international beer festivals -- 43 medals in all. The bar screams "locals only" with football fans sitting wide-eyed at large screens and hometown bands taking to the stage on weekend nights, but cheap pitchers and quality lagers unlike any in L.A. (try the SoCal Tattoo Black Lager) makes SPBC worth the drive to this oft-forgotten 'hood.

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Ohana's owner Andrew Luthi (left) and Head Brewer Chris Walowski say, "Cheers!"

2. Ohana Brewing Company:
We were already excited to see what 2013 will bring for Ohana Brewing Company when we profiled them back in October, but after recently checking in with Head Brewer Chris Walowski and hearing what L.A.'s newest brewery has planned for the next year, well, we're just plain giddy. Still on a mission to make every batch a different beer, Walowski (at 25, the youngest head brewer in the region) has released six beers in just three months and has an amber and Black IPA slated to go out to the brewery's 30-plus accounts the next week. Ever ambitious, Ohana will also be brewing two sour beers by the end of the month and an imperial stout that will be going into bourbon barrels for a hopeful summer release. Great beers coupled with a planned Alhambra retail location is sure to make 2013 the year of Ohana.