Hop Merchants Bottle Shop & Taproom

5013 Lankershim Blvd
North Hollywood CA 91601
(818) 927-4071
  • PUB QUIZ—Wednesdays @ 8:00pm
About Hop Merchants Bottle Shop & Taproom

Hop Merchants Bottle Shop & Taproom is a craft beer bottle shop and tasting room. We offer 16 rotating taps of Los Angeles-area beer as well as a wide variety of bottles and cans from your favorite independent breweries, which you can purchase to go or to enjoy in-house (with $1.50 corkage).  We also have an open food policy, meaning outside food is welcome and delivery is even encouraged. It's all good!

Located in the NoHo Arts District of North Hollywood, California, our mission is to channel our passion for great beer, community, and create a fun, chill atmosphere for people to hang, drink, shop and debate the deeper mysteries of life...such as who would win in a fistfight between Batman and Captain America? What's the difference between partly cloudy and partly sunny?  If the Zombie Apocalypse started today, what would be your weapon of choice?  Why are there no such thing as B batteries?  If humans evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?

QUIZ RECAP

Wed Sep 29 2021
| by Quizmaster Meghan Carvalho
|

What a lovely night for Trivia! The teams came ready to play. The tap house was filled with deep deliberation, correct answer cheers, and 90s Hip Hop. 

This week was a repeat win for The Keg (like the 2018 movie The Meg) who mastered the double down with their movie knowledge. But not too far behind was Hey Mommy! who was often at the top of the leaderboard. These two teams really battled it out through all seven  rounds. 

This week tested our teams' early childhood knowlegde with some focus on our ABCs. While Z (or maybe just pop culture in general) highlighted teams' strengths, K countries not so much. In the end, all  teams left triumphant, with smiles, and hopefully wanting to come back. 

See you next week!

Game Rank Team # Team Name Score Teams Beaten Team Beat Average
1 20469 The Keg (like the 2018 movie the meg) 71 6 1.000
2 28481 Hey Mommy! 69 5 0.833
3 34368 3rd Most Famous Groundhogs in Pennsylvania 57 4 0.667
4 35045 Go! Man! Go! 53 3 0.500
5 35044 Wise guys 38 2 0.333
6 35047 No Guarantees 33 1 0.167
7 35048 The Esposas 26 0 0.000

QUIZ RECAP

Wed Sep 22 2021
| by Quizmaster Kevin MacLean
|

A competitive finish highlighted this week's game at Hop Merchants. The Keg led the way from round 1 all the way to round 5 when some aggressive double downs saw them drop all the was to 5th place! But a strong finish got them back up to the top spot to end the game!

Game Rank Team # Team Name Score Teams Beaten Team Beat Average
1 20469 The Keg (like the 2018 movie the meg) 74 8 1.000
2 34368 3rd Most Famous Groundhogs in Pennsylvania 68 7 0.875
3 24306 Give Mando a Hando 67 6 0.750
4 19577 Pank Panther 54 5 0.625
5 21321 We Have A Bad Feeling About This 51 4 0.500
6 34362 The Wise Guys 31 3 0.375
7 34363 L-LAMA 26 2 0.250
8 33732 Blue Barracudas 19 1 0.125
9 34369 Hazy ipa 11 0 0.000

QUIZ RECAP

Wed Sep 15 2021
| by Quizmaster Meghan Carvalho
|

What a wonderful Wednesday for trivia!

Once again, teams came ready to play. We had a lot of new teams which is always fun (even though we love our regulars). This week was challenging but teams put their heads together to pull through round after round. 

Round 1 started out promising with half of the teams getting all 6 questions correct (unfortunately no double downs). Round 2 was no different. Teams really knew their blue characters, but thanks to Steve's address to us millenials, we had to remove Blue's Clues (a giveaway). Round 3 gave teams a bit of a challenge, but I was proud of my fellow proud Croc wearers -- all teams were successful on this one! 

But the secret to separating the pack continues to be the power of the double-down. 3rd Most Famous Groundhogs in Pennsylvania successfully double-downed 4 times and remained in the league throughout all 7 Rounds. If the 3rd most famous groundhogs continue to win, we should be scared for Feburary when Punxsutawney Phil comes out to play. 

See you next week! 

Game Rank Team # Team Name Score Teams Beaten Team Beat Average
1 33225 3RD most FAMOUS groundHOGS in Pennsylvania 85 7 1.000
2 33718 Seriously guys, the game is over 69 6 0.857
3 23913 Team Popcorn 65 5 0.714
4 28846 Pank Panther 58 4 0.571
5 30475 The Trivia-Livias 55 3 0.429
6 20469 The Keg (like the 2018 movie the meg) 52 2 0.286
7 21321 We Have A Bad Feeling About This 35 1 0.143
8 33694 Records & Hops 9 0 0.000