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Blanca Quintero

Blanca Quintero

General Manager at Highland Park Brewery in Los Angeles, Certified Cicerone, and President of the Pink Boots Society.

Aug 20, 2026

6:29
Let's hear it.
6:30
What happened indeed.
6:31
So I'm...
6:33
We went to a college in the Pacific Northwest.
6:38
When I came back home after graduation, I started a master's program in philosophy because apparently I just like student loans.
6:48
And when I kind of reacclimated back into the LA scene, I reconnected with like my LA friends that I'd gone to high school with.
6:57
And I realized that we all kind of liked beer but if not just like obviously we all drank beer together growing up and whatnot but what I noticed was that there was a lacking of a lot of like diversity in beer it's like it was still like having gone to school in the Pacific Northwest there was a lot of micro brew diversity, right? There's a lot of great breweries up there.

53 MINS LATER

59:52
For you, Blanca, is there a defining kind of characteristic of West Coast Pilsner that differentiates it from whatever it's been called before and kind of, as you said, whatever it might be called in the future? Or does it all kind of fall under a similar umbrella and a similar spirit?

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