5 Best Breweries in Los Angeles (2026)

Arts District Brewing Company is a working brewpub in Downtown LA's Arts District, pouring a rotating lineup of about 30 craft beers alongside cocktails and wine from its own full bar. The space doubles as a games room, with pool tables, arcade cabinets and a photo booth built into the industrial building, and the kitchen turns out bar food to match. It opened in December 2015 and has grown into one of the most-visited breweries in the neighborhood.

Firestone Walker's Venice taproom, officially The Propagator, is the LA outpost of the Central Coast brewery, built as a gastropub with a menu designed around beer pairing. The Brewhouse next door makes Venice-only releases and limited Barrelworks wild ales that customers can only get on site. It runs a full kitchen alongside the taps, from smash burgers to Neapolitan-style pizza.

Karl Strauss Brewing Company runs a Downtown LA brewpub on Wilshire Blvd, part of the San Diego-founded chain that's been brewing since 1989. The location functions as a full American restaurant and beer garden built around its house-brewed lineup, with staff who pour tasting samples before you commit to a pint. It's set up to handle a crowd, with big-screen coverage for major matches.

Highland Park Brewery runs its Chinatown taproom across from LA State Historic Park, brewing everything served on site, from crisp pilsners to spontaneously fermented sours and barrel-aged imperial stouts. The room is family-friendly with a large dog-friendly patio and a kitchen turning out clean, simple bar food. It's a short walk from Dodger Stadium, which shapes a lot of the pregame crowd.

Boomtown Brewery is a taproom, brewery and event space in the Arts District that brews its beer next door and pours it in a sprawling industrial room built for hanging out. It doesn't run a kitchen, leaning instead on rotating food trucks and letting customers bring in outside food. A separate room with a stage hosts live music and community events alongside the regular taproom hours.