Beach City Brewery

No Longer In Business

CLOSED and reopened as BEACHWOOD BREWING

CLOSED

This was an easy brewery to find. You enter through the back and brewery equipment. The tasting room is small with picnic tables. They were cleaning up from a canning. They all were very friendly. The flight cost $10 which is high. Adam the bartender was very helpful with my questions. The beers were above average.

Nice little brewery tucked away in a business part, the service was very good, there were over a dozen beers on tap (all solid or better) and w/ TVs on to watch a game it was a nice place to hang out

Visited July 2, 2014.

Another warehouse brewery but this one has started off with a real budget. Didn’t ask how big the equipment is but I’d guess at least 25 bbl. They’ve only been open 2 months so far and have about 20 accounts, all in Huntington so far. Interesting to see a brewery with a proper business plan and not a pile of plastic fermenters and their nephew bartending for free.

They offer flights of four for $10 and all eight for $18, so not cheap. At least their beer isn’t bad. It’s not something I’d drive all the way from Riverside to try again but at least it didn’t have a bunch of flaws. They have a pale, IPA, black rye IPA, and a double IPA so half the list is hoppy if you’re into that. Surprisingly the black rye IPA was my favorite of the bunch. They also had a Berliner that was alright. I didn’t care for the stout.

The employees are friendly and the brewer and owner were there talking to people. I tried my samples at one of the picnic tables and talked to the contractor that helped build the place about owning and building a house in Mexico as a foreigner. I learned all about the 100 km rule and the fact that federal line tends to move from time to time. I think I had more fun talking about that than about beer.

Since I neither live nor work anywhere near Huntington Beach I have no idea when I’ll be here next, nor do I have the inclination to drive out of my way to be here BUT it’s not a bad place. Also, just up the street Brewbaker’s is opening a new brewery soon so at some point I’ll have to come back. That, and sometime later this year Four Sons will open. So yeah, I’ll come back in at some point.

This place is actually not far from where I played soccer (HB Sports Complex). Decided to stop in on my way home the other night. There isn’t too much to the tasting room, a couple folding tables by the entrance, three picnic tables and benches, and a small bar that I guess you could hang out at. The space is mostly dominated by the brewing equipment and cold box.

The brewer was serving beers and set me up with a flight of all 8 of their beers. This is another new place that is charging a bit on the high end for their pours--$10 for a flight of four beers. Service was good, at least. He explained a bit about all the beers and gave me a pour of the DIPA they were releasing the following day.

Overall beer quality is okay, not great, but not really terrible. I didn’t care for a few of the beers, most were just "eh", and maybe the wheat beer was the best.

Still a relatively new brewery, but it is a great place to visit. The brewery and tasting room are all in the same area. It’s really cool to drink a beer less than 20 feet away from where it was brewed. If you are in the area it is worth checking out.