{"id":1326,"date":"2017-07-14T16:59:55","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T16:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/arts-culture\/brewmance-the-long-beach-beer-brotherhood-and-their-journey-from-homebrewing-to-taproom\/"},"modified":"2017-07-14T16:59:55","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T16:59:55","slug":"brewmance-the-long-beach-beer-brotherhood-and-their-journey-from-homebrewing-to-taproom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/art\/brewmance-the-long-beach-beer-brotherhood-and-their-journey-from-homebrewing-to-taproom","title":{"rendered":"Brewmance: The Long Beach Beer Brotherhood and Their Journey From Homebrewing to Taproom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Christo Brock want’s his new film Brewmance to tell the American story of craft beer through the\u00a0lens of three Long Beach area brewers and their efforts to open up brick and mortar production sites. Photos: Brewmance<\/i><\/p>\n

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Home brewing has come a long way in the nearly 40 years since it was legalized by the United States Congress. Scores of people have taken the opportunity to make their own bubbly beverages in the comfort of their own homes, leading to non-traditional brewers adding non-traditional ingredients and resulting in beer flavors that now range from coffee to hibiscus.<\/p>\n

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In his new film, Brewmance<\/a>, Christo Brock, director and writer of the 2014 film Touch the Wall, hopes to capture the essence of home brewing and the journey three men are making in taking their production sites out of their homes to full-scale production breweries.<\/p>\n

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Brock, a Long Beach resident, has already spent considerable time traversing the country to meet up with some of the most successful craft brewers in the game. Jim Koch (Samuel Adams), Ken Grossman (Sierra Nevada) and Sam Calagione (Dogfish Head) and even Julian Shrago (Beachwood) all make appearances in the film, sharing their own stories of building breweries from the ground up.<\/p>\n

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But Brock chose to train his focus on three soon-to-be breweries in the Long Beach area\u2014Liberation Brewing Company (LBC), Long Beach Beer Lab and Ten Mile Brewing (Signal Hill)\u2014to showcase their struggles, joys and passions displayed on their paths to becoming beer entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n

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For Brock, the story is much less about beer as it is about the art of beer making. He explained that the United States has very few things that it can claim as its own in terms of culture. There\u2019s jazz, the supermarket, and McDonalds, he said, but with the proliferation of craft beer you can now order \u201cAmerican-style\u201d beer when traveling abroad.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is a uniquely American story. There are very few uniquely American products. There\u2019s the musical, jazz, supermarkets, McDonald\u2019s, but this, what\u2019s interesting about this,\u201d Brock said. \u201cThe point I\u2019m making is that craft beer is now our export to the rest of the world. And it\u2019s a unique product of American ingenuity, resourcefulness, out-of-the-box thinking and kind of breaking boundaries.\u201d<\/p>\n