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Long Beach is home to one of the country’s leading cheese experts. Here’s how to get a tasting with Irene Clemente.
Irene Clemente isn't just a cheese lover. She's Long Beach's premiere cheese educator and storyteller—and she's hoping to expand her milky empire with classes, travels, and tastings.
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Massive rum event in Downtown Long Beach to feature 80+ expressions and unlimited tastings
The Rum Curious Summit 2025 will be hosted at Altar Society in Downtown Long Beach for its inaugural outing, featuring over 20 rum brands offering 100-plus expressions of the spirit.
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Long Beach Homebrew Invitational returns with unlimited beer tastings
Ah, 'tis the season for our city's budding home brewers to flex their skills in the annual Long Beach Homebrew Invitational hosted by Craft Beer LB.
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Celebrating six years, Ambitious Ales continues to be one the defining cogs of Long Beach’s beer scene
Ambitious Ales, the Bixby Knolls hopped-out gem that churns out some of the region's best beer, is turning six. And to celebrate, the brewery's...
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ISM Brewing’s burger menu is popular for a reason, Long Beach
ISM Brewing's burger menu is a hit—and there's plenty of juicy, cheesy reasons as to why.
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Long Beach’s Buvons officially opens French-meets-Californian restaurant space
After a month of experimenting in the kitchen, Buvons Wine Bar, the restaurant expansion from the neighboring Buvons Wine Shop, has opened under the watchful eye of owner and chef Alicia Kemper.
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Michael’s on Naples proudly offers one of Long Beach’s strongest wine and cocktail programs
Michael's on Naples is a libation lover's paradise—which is why the restaurant will host a spectacular, five-wine tasting for Long Beach Last Call 2025 and Jolly will serve up two special cocktails.
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Long Beach wine bar Buvons develops restaurant space—starting with a stellar coffee popup
Alicia Kemper, the owner of Buvons Natural Wine Bar & Shop, has set her eyes on expansion. While she has constantly flexed her love...
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A farewell to Congregation Ale House—and a history of Long Beach’s long support of independent beer
Congregation Ale House, Downtown Long Beach's staple independent beer pourer and pub, is officially no longer.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Sonoratown open late on Friday, Saturday; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
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Beloved independent brewer Brouwerij West to permanently shutter operations in ‘a month or two’
Now, Brouwerij West, the San Pedro brewery that brought mixed-fermentation brews to SoCal, is shuttering after nearly nine years of serving the community.
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Long Beach’s Trademark Brewing to open second location at Enclave in Torrance
Award-winning Long Beach brewery Trademark Brewing is officially expanding into Torrance.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Many more closures; Hartland’s scores alcohol license; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
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Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: Oct. 2024
Brian Addison's Favorite Things is a monthly list showcasing his five favorite things he is mowing down and gulping through in Long Beach—and it's not always new items but it's definitely never repeated things from previous months.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Babette Bakery to close Nov. 3; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
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Altar Society breakfast: Brewery blends bubbles, Bloody Marys, and breakfast burritos
An Altar Society breakfast, you say? Yessiree: breakfast sandwiches, pizzas, burritos, and plenty of bubbles, beers, and Bloody Marys to wrap a nice liquid blanket around those day drinkers.
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Long Beach breweries score at the 2024 Great American Beer Fest
Ambitious Ales, ISM Brewing, and Trademark Brewing all scored medals at the 2024 Great American Beer Fest.
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ISM Brewing and the return of pub food: Scotch, pickled, and deviled egg offerings rock
Pickled. Scotch. Deviled. Deviled Scotch. Eggs galore for ISM Brewing's awesome new menu items.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Mangette closes; Fluffy’s Sno-Ball owner dies; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
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A Cambodian food festival finally arrives in Long Beach
The Long Beach Cambodian Food Festival kicks off its inaugural year at Ten Mile Brewing on Saturday, Oct. 19 from noon to 8PM.
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Halloween Hootenanny 2024: Long Beach’s best beer festival returns to MOLAA
Halloween Hootenanny 2024—Long Beach's best beer festival—returns with its dedication to horror'n'hops come Oct. 12 at the Museum of Latin American Art.
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With Long Beach Oktoberfest postponed, here are the places you can celebrate locally
Long Beach Oktoberfest isn't coming through for 2024—that doesn't mean there aren't other stellar options happening throughout the season in Long Beach.
Food & Drink
Craft Beer LB Fest—the unlimited-pour festival defined by Long Beach culture—returns
When it comes to the independent Long Beach beer scene, Craft Beer LB Fest is an essential cog—with its founder, Dennis Trilles, at its epicenter.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: NYC-style chopped cheese hope; Battambong BBQ hits four years; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
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This Long Beach pizza tour visits four pizzerias in a double-decker booze bus
Come Sunday, Sept. 22, a red double-decker bus will come to pick up a crew for the inaugural Long Beach Pizza Tour.
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FIRST LOOK: Inside Beachwood Distilling’s cocktail and food program in Bixby Knolls
Beachwood Distilling in Bixby Knolls is finally prepared to show off its spirited efforts toward craft cocktail creation.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Royal Indian Curry House finds new home in DTLB; new coffee joint coming to Wrigley; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: South of Nick’s moves forward in Belmont Shore; more coffeeshops opening; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Ficklewood up for sale; District Wine celebrates 14 years; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
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75+ breweries. 150+ beers. LA Beer Week’s Independent Beer Fest in Long Beach is massive
As with last year, where thousands descended upon Shoreline Aquatic Park in Downtown Long Beach, LA Beer Week and its Independent Beer Fest will once again invade Downtown Long Beach with the largest beer festival in SoCal. Come Saturday, June 15, the festival will bring over 75 breweries from the region and over 150 different beers with them.
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Trademark Brewing celebrates five years of brewing’n’community (mechanical bull included)
Trademark Brewing—after opening in an old auto shop after four years of searching for a home for their brewery—will be celebrating their fifth anniversary come Saturday, June 1.
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How Long Beach Beer Lab’s Clean & Crispy Beer Fest is more about community than obscure beers
Outside of the massive Lagerville in Ventura, Long Beach Beer Lab's annual Clean & Crispy Beer Fest is the region's largest festival dedicated to light, refreshing beers—and with its return on Saturday, June 22, brings with it the idea that craft beer can move beyond the niche and into the communal.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Little Coyote under new owner; multiple new spaces open; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
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May the 4th be with you, Long Beach: Altar Society to host ‘Disco Death Star’ top floor dance party
Disco will meet Star Wars on May the 4th, Long Beach: "Death Star Disco" will encourage people to dress up as Diana Ross or Princess Leia or a combination of both come Saturday, May 4.
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ISM Brewing scores three, Trademark one medal at the prestigious World Beer Cup
The World Beer Cup, largely seen as the globe's most prestigious international beer competition, has bestowed four medals onto two Long Beach Breweries—DTLB's ISM Brewing and Washington/DTLB's Trademark—that further showcase that Long Beach's beer scene is stronger than ever.
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ISM Brewing launches ‘tacotarian’ menu with massive, over-the-top tacos diverting from the basics
ISM Brewing certainly offers some of the city's best beers—beautifully brewed, consistently clean, downright down-able—but its underrated food (which is shockingly affordable) deserves an uplift, especially its newly minted "Tacotarian" menu that features hefty, hulky iterations of the Mexican dish that are refreshingly different from pretty much anything in the city.
Culture & Commentary
‘Cambodian Cowboy’ to lead Cambodian New Year in Long Beach across three days; ends with food festival
Chef Chad Phuong is no slack when it comes to the annual celebration of the Cambodian New Year in Long Beach: Across four days beginning on Friday, April 5, he will host a variety of events that culminates with a food festival at Trademark Brewing that will be hosting some of the city's best representation Cambodian-American entrepreneurs and food creators.Camb
Culture & Commentary
How the Long Beach Pinball League drives business, friendship, and connection
The Long Beach Pinball League not only interconnects budding and professional pinball enthusiasts alike, but also drives local business on nights that are typically slow and connects people with newly minted friendships.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Plunge, V-Burger close; BBQ fest to return; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
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Unlimited wine pours from over 20 wineries as LA Wine Fest returns to Long Beach
The annual event—which moved from Los Angeles to Long Beach in 2019—is one of the region's largest wine-centric events (but don't worry: there's beer to break up the grape crushing).
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Free shots, swag, secret tiki bartender: This Downtown Long Beach bar crawl explores all the right spots
A food group of 60,000 members and a five-destination Downtown Long Beach bar crawl. What could possibly go wrong?
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Long Beach Last Call celebration of bar industry continues through Mar. 10
From industry only events and parties aboard the Queen Mary to dive bar bingo and proper Irish coffee lessons, Long Beach Last Call will celebrate the bar culture in a way no event has.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: The Pan to reopen in March; Korean fried chicken hidden in a deli; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
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Altar Society is part of a Downtown Long Beach rebirth—so they’re hosting a crawl to celebrate the other businesses joining them
Altar Society will be hosting a Long Beach Food Scene meet-up that will eventually become a crawl, hitting up ISM, The Stave, and ending at The Ordinarie come Mar. 8—all in celebration of Long Beach Last Call.
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Long Beach Beer Lab’s move into Zaferia reminds the city they’ve always been fermenting pioneers
Long Beach Beer Lab—birthed in Wrigley, now with a sister in the Zaferia District, also home to the Long Beach Bread Lab—has long been a leader in fermentation and bread-making but is often dismissed or outright ignored in the larger conversation surrounding the city's growing reputation as a sourdough-y, bread-birthing center.
Culture & Commentary
Long Beach restaurants are testing the waters with late hours—but patrons need to stay up with them
Long Beach restaurants have long struggled with maintaining late hours, both pre- and post-COVID—and in a huge sense, it's the snake that eats itself: People consistently claim that they want places open later so a handful do but don't receive the patronage because it is presumed that, well, no one is open late.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: 4 Shore sign goes up in Naples; ISM launches brunch; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Bottlecraft license suspended; See’s Candy opens in BK; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
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Long Beach’s ISM Brewing introduces its food (including $15 sandwich’n’beer lunch combos and $1 wings)
ISM Brewing has begun to serve food in the hopes that people will not only visit during all hours but that it will attract both worker and visitors to Downtown.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Unlimited booze event to benefit Garage Theatre; Beer Lab opens in Zaferia; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
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Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: November 2023
Brian Addison's Favorite Things is a monthly list showcasing his five favorite things he is mowing down and gulping through in Long Beach—and it's not always new items but it's definitely never repeated things from previous months.
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A return to roots: Meet Ian McCall, Long Beach’s newest (and very talented) brewer of ISM Brewing
Taking over the former Beachwood Brewing space in Downtown Long Beach, Ian McCall and his ISM Brewing bring a fresh, talented grip of beer making and knowledge.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Tito’s expands; El Sauz postpones 4th Street opening; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
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Long Beach’s Cambodian Cowboy partners with Inglewood’s Three Weavers Brewing for Cambo-coffee stout beer
Inglewood's OG craft brewery Three Weavers and the Cambodian Cowboy himself
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Sour beer lovers rejoice: Beachwood’s Downtown Long Beach brewery The Blendery is (finally) reopening
The reopening—which will include Beachwood Brewing and Blendery beers fully side-by-side—will the first time customers can visit regularly since March of 2020.
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Bar Envie in Zaferia to close; Long Beach Beer Lab to take over
Bar Envie owner Geoff Rau has partnered with wife-and-husband, master baker-and-master brewer team Harmony and Levi Fried of the Long Beach Bread and Beer Labs to formally convert the space into a Beer Lab.
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OC legend Smoke & Fire to take over Portuguese Bend in Long Beach (and yes, they’re going to be distilling)
Shortly after it was announced Lupe's will be taken over by the owners of Padre and Mezcalero, the crew behind OC-based (and Long Beach-connected) Smoke & Fire will take over the Portuguese Bend distillery next door, giving a much-needed dose of energy to DTLB.
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Long Beach’s best beer fest, Halloween Hootenanny, returns to MOLAA with 35+ breweries (and unlimited pours)
Over 35 breweries, tons of spooky vendors, and a sense of community that only Festival Obscura and Craft Beer LB can bring, Halloween Hootenanny happily returns with horrorcore'n'hops.
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Long Beach bar staple Baby Gee launches into happy hour (half-off bottles of vino and vegan dogs included)
One of Long Beach's best bars just started Happy Hour. Thank the Bar Gods.
Culture & Commentary
Long Beach Bartenders Guild closes a gap in the local hospitality industry that’s existed for too long
Yes, amid the tables lined with pours of various tequilas and mezcals from Nosotros—a tequileria and mezcaleria that has bases in both Jalisco and...
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Altar Society soft opens; Cookie Plug to expand into LB; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: L’Antica in Shore, Beachwood at 2nd & PCH opening in coming months; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
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Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: September 2023
Brian Addison's monthly list showcasing his five favorite things he is mowing down and gulping through in Long Beach—and it's not always new items but it's definitely never repeated things from previous months.
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Unlimited pizza, beer, and art viewing? 4th Horseman to celebrate LB Restaurant Week with one-night event (including Brian Addison-curated pizza)
The first event celebrating and leading up to August's Long Beach Restaurant Week is one filed with (a ton of) pizza, beer, and art.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Zero proof bottle shop Hummingbird Heart opens; Belmont Brewing fighting to keep dog patio; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
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Tasso, cochon de lait, crawfish boil: Ten Mile Brewing to host mini-Cajun festival with Battambong BBQ and Shady Grove Foods
Ten Mile will have tasso and cream pizza and killer shrimp. Battambong will have a crawfish boil and Asian-Cajun dirty rice. Shady Grove Foods will have smoked meatloaf and gumbo ya-ya. What is there not to love?
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Long Beach Beer Lab to close out LA Beer Week with ‘Crispy bois only,’ all-you-can-drink beer festival
Long Beach Beer lab will close out L.A. Beer Week (which is bring one of the largest beer festivals in the state) with a stellar, crisp-beers-only festival.
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LA Beer Week to host beer festival in Long Beach with 75 breweries. Yes, 75 breweries.
The Los Angeles Independent Craft Beer Festival—the kick-off event for this year's 14th Annual L.A. Beer Week from the county chapter of the Brewers' Guild—is the county's largest beer festival.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Pickle Banh Mi Co. soft opens; Mai Tai Festival coming; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
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Your first look inside Long Beach’s newest brewery, Altar Society Brewing
With owners Jon Sweeney and Chris Evans bringing on master brewer Derek Wasak—classically trained in Germany, brewed in San Diego and elsewhere—there is little doubt that Altar Society will join the greats of the Long Beach beer scene.
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LA Wine Fest returns to Long Beach with unlimited tastings from nearly 40 wineries, breweries
The annual event—which moved from Los Angeles to Long Beach in 2019—is one of the region's largest wine-centric events (but don't worry: there's beer to break up the grape crushing).
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Ambitious, LB Beer Lab, Ten Mile win big at statewide Brewers Cup
The annual competition is one of California's most prestigious in terms of beer—and breweries representing Long Beach showed strong in 2023.
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West Coast Taco & Beer Festival—one of the largest in the country—is coming to Long Beach with unlimited beer tastings
The San Diego-based festival will be making two other stops this year outside of the border city: Bakersfield and Long Beach.
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Ten Mile Brewing already serves great beer—but they also serve Long Beach’s most underrated pizza
Father-and-son team Dan and Jesse Sundstrom have created a brewery that has won them some of the most distinguished awards in the industry—and now, Jesse is tackling one of the city's most-loved sectors of food: pizza.
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Beachwood Brewing to shutter kitchen at DTLB location; operate solely as brewery and tasting room
The closure marks yet another hit to the Downtown, of which its businesses have been battling—both publicly and privately—keeping their patronages active.
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For the love of horror and hops: Over 40 breweries invade Long Beach for Halloween Hootenanny
The team behind Festival Obscura, Martin and Ryan Hughes-Svab, along with Craft Beer LB founder Dennis Trilles, are gearing up for their annual celebration of beer, cider, horror, and Long Beach.
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Beachwood, Ten Mile win gold at Great American Beer Fest; Ambitious aims for next year
The annual competition is largely considered the nation's most prestigious in terms of beer—and Long Beach showed up and strong in 2022.
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Your first look inside Beachwood Brewing’s taproom at 2nd & PCH
The heart of Long Beach's independent brewing scene, Beachwood is now extending its local reach beyond DTLB by opening a taproom at the 2nd & PCH complex at Alamitos Bay.
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One of the city’s oldest watering holes—PBS Pub in Wrigley—lives on thanks to new owners
A living and breathing pub since 1950, PBS has been a Wrigley staple for multiple generations—and thanks to a new team of owners, it will live on past the pandemic with a grand opening this Friday.
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Nationwide hard seltzer festival Seltzerland makes pitstop in Long Beach
Get your White Girl Drunk on with over 100 hard seltzer tastings as Seltzerland comes to Long Beach for the first time after birthing its fizzy baby earlier this summer.
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Five years after closing, beloved bistro At Last Cafe to host popup at Liberation Brewing Co.
Chef John McLaughlin will once again be serving the stomachs of Long Beach half a decade after shuttering his much beloved Alamitos Beach bistro.
Culture & Commentary
Wine Country in Long Beach: How the generous, curious spirit of one man brought wine culture to our city
For nearly 30 years, Long Beach native Randy Kemner has been on a small-but-mighty mission: To hopefully alter one person's perception of wine at a time in the hopes that all of America's wine culture can become better.
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Three Long Beach craft beer vets take on Halloween and hops for 40-plus vendor beer festival at MOLAA
The team behind The 4th Horseman, Martin and Ryan Hughes-Svab, along with Craft Beer LB founder Dennis Trilles, are gearing up for a massive, hop-driven, heady-in-all-the-good-ways Halloween hootenanny.
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Long Beach to require proof of vaccination at bars, breweries, and more; follows County mandate
The City of Long Beach has largely mimicked a health mandate issued today by the County of Los Angeles that will require proof of vaccination at most social hubs, excluding restaurants.
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Long Beach’s newest craft brewery, Trademark Brewing, set to move into old auto repair shop
It’s official: after four years of diligent work, husband and wife team Sterling and Ilana Steffen have signed a lease to open Long Beach’s newest craft beer brewery, Trademark Brewing, at 234 E. Anaheim—a game changer that will activate the Washington neighborhood.
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Long Beach’s Beachwood named Best Large Brewpub at the 2016 World Beer Cup
Make no mistake about it, Long Beach: DTLB is home to one of the best brewpubs in the nation—and Beachwood BBQ & Brewing has...
