{"id":3114,"date":"2014-10-07T19:49:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T19:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/food\/dutch-s-brewhouse-long-beach-s-soon-to-be-brew-your-own-beer-joint\/"},"modified":"2014-10-07T19:49:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T19:49:26","slug":"dutch-s-brewhouse-long-beach-s-soon-to-be-brew-your-own-beer-joint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/food\/dutch-s-brewhouse-long-beach-s-soon-to-be-brew-your-own-beer-joint","title":{"rendered":"Dutch’s BrewHouse, Long Beach’s (Soon to Be?) Brew-Your-Own Beer Joint"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Having lived in Bixby Knolls for eleven years, Jason Van Fleet has seen the neighborhood swell into a haven of hoppy and grubby goodness: The Factory, Jongewaard\u2019s Bake-n-Broil, EJ Malloy\u2019s\u2026<\/p>\n

This is precisely why, beyond the common gastropub or sports bar, Van Fleet [pictured below] wants to bring more than just a tap list a bit north to the famed stretch of Atlantic Avenue in Bixby Knolls. He wants to being the growing brewing scene.<\/p>\n

\"ScreenBut there\u2019s a catch with his proposed Dutch\u2019s BrewHouse: you\u2019re<\/em> the brewer. That\u2019s right, you get to home-brew without the home or, like Stein Fillers<\/a> (near Lakewood and Carson), without having to purchase all the equipment. You get to borrow it all\u2014ingredients, recipes, equipment, space, even the clean-up\u2014courtesy of Dutch\u2019s.<\/p>\n

The \u201cbrew on premises\u201d (BOP) concept is not new. Come the year 2000, shortly after the craft beer boom of the 1990s, there were over 75 locations throughout the States where the public could brew their own beer. In SoCal, that business belonged solely to BrewBakers<\/a> in Huntington Beach, which opened in 1996 and still operates to this day.<\/p>\n

Van Fleet, understanding Long Beach\u2019s obsession with the sudsy liquid, wants to expand upon that reach and provide our city its own BOP spot at 4244 Atlantic Avenue. With over 30 recipes in hand\u2014including root beer and craft soda recipes for the little ones to brew side-by-side the adults\u2014Van Fleet hopes that Dutch\u2019s becomes a Long Beach staple in the gastronomical scenery that is flooding the Bixby Knolls landscape.<\/p>\n

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The scheduling process for brewing is an easy one: setup a brew session for one to three kettles, or up to 18 cases of beer. Brew time will take somewhere around two hours and then you\u2019ll have to vacate the premises (or take our suggestion and obviously enjoy a Dutch’s brew) and leave your precious concoction with Dutch\u2019s for the two- to three-week fermentation process. Schedule your bottling time thereafter, pop one open, and enjoy.<\/p>\n

\"Dutch02\"\u201cThis is a very tight knit community so, when thinking of starting this business, I could not think of a better place than Bixby Knolls,\u201d Van Fleet said. \u201cDutch\u2019s BrewHouse really just started from wanting a neighborhood place I could walk to hangout with my wife or friends and that was family-friendly and affordable\u2026 I feel Bixby Knolls needs more places like this. The revitalization on Atlantic Avenue, with its several new restaurants as well as some great established ones, has helped Bixby Knolls on its way to being a destination spot.\u201d<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t to say that the brewhouse is only going to be a BOP joint. Dutch\u2019s\u2014though not on the scale of Beachwood or Rock Bottom further south\u2014will be offering its own brews, which will be insanely fresh given the small batches they\u2019ll be made in. Though Van Fleet says it is premature to determine what beer will be Dutch\u2019s golden brew of choice, he insists that there will be both the common and the strange in their libation list.<\/p>\n