Our fourth Business N Beer gathering was held August 2 at Strand Brewing Company in Torrance. Coincidentally, it was also International IPA Day, so it was pretty appropriate that we met at Strand Brewing as they have a couple really nice IPA’s in their Atticus and Black IPA. Our group may have had a few less people than last week, but again it consisted of people that had shown up for one of our previous events and several newcomers. In addition, we had a few people wander over from the main tasting room to ask what Business N Beer was all about. It seems most people really like the idea and it shows with all the new faces we are seeing.
International IPA Day at Strand Brewing
We would like to thank our host, Rich Marcello and Strand Brewing Company for having us, and special thanks to Phil and Debbie Walls for the pizza. Congratulations to Tim Thompson for winning the door prize this week, a free craft beer at one of our future events. Speaking of future events, our next event will be held at The Rockefeller in Hermosa Beach. The Rockefeller is a gastropub with 24 craft beers on tap. They also have some specials that will coincide with our event so I can assure you this will be a fun night. Bring a date and stay a while.
Todd Whorley, Tanya Martin, Rich Marcello
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Week three of Business N Beer found us at our first micro brewery, Monkish Brewing Company in Torrance. Monkish Brewing specializes in Belgian style ales and beers, and the owner and brewer, Henry Nguyen does a great job of it. They have only been open for a few months but I can see that they are becoming quite popular as I see more and more people in their tasting room and I see several gastropubs carrying their products. It is nice to see good things happen to good people.
Adriana and Henry Nguyen
This was our largest gathering yet, with 17 or 18 people showing up. Unlike the second gathering at Abigaile which had no returnees from our first gathering, Thursday’s meet-up included several people that had come to the Select Beer gathering, several more that had come to our meeting at The Brewery at Abigaile with close to half of the attendees being first timers. It seems to me that Business N Beer is doing exactly as we hoped; bringing people together to do business while enjoying an American craft beer. And it is growing weekly.
Business N Beer is Growing
Our next Business N Beer meet-up will be Thursday, August 2 at 6:00 PM; and will be held at Strand Brewing Company, also in Torrance. This is another micro brewery, which means they do not serve food. We will likely bring in some snacks, but you can bring food or have it delivered. There is plenty of street parking and there are no meters! We hope to see you there. You can see all the photos from our night at Monkish Brewing on GotBaddog.com
Thursday, July 19 was our second Business N Beer meet-up, and the first of the brewpubs we will visit. The Brewery at Abigaile in Hermosa Beach not only brews five or more different beers, they also serve craft beers from micro breweries around the world. On top of that they have a very nice food menu and their chef always has something interesting going on. Every visit to Abigaile has been a very pleasant experience.
Abigaile Flight
Last week we had 10 people show up for our first Business N Beer, and last night we had 13 people show up. The interesting this is that it was a different group of people so I am confident as the weeks go on, everyone will have an opportunity to not only experience some great local craft beers, but they will meet new people that they can possibly do some business with while enjoying a nice beer.
Brewmaster, Brian Brewer with Business N Beer
Our next event will be held July 26 at Monkish Brewing in Torrance. Please refer to our schedule on the front page or our Facebook page for more details. You can see all the photos from Business N Beer at Abigaile on Gotbaddog.com
Last night was our first Business N Beer gathering, which we had at Select Beer Store, Bottle Shop and Tap Room in Redondo Beach, CA. For a first time event, we were very pleased with the turnout. Everyone seemed to get along and enjoyed the networking over their choice of American craft beers. We would like to thank everyone that came out and especially Wes, Heather and David for making us feel welcomed. Congratulations to Kay Grundhaus for winning the door prize, a free beer at one of the upcoming Business N Beer events.
Networking at Business N Beer
I have no doubts that we will return and I have a feeling that the next time we will have even more attendees. You can see all of the photos from the event at GotBaddog.com.
David, Wes and Heather of Select Beer Store
