{"id":82214,"date":"2024-03-19T16:22:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T23:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/?p=82214"},"modified":"2024-03-19T16:22:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T23:22:27","slug":"ambitious-ales-marks-5-years-of-beers-and-community-gatherings-with-a-march-23-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/food\/ambitious-ales-marks-5-years-of-beers-and-community-gatherings-with-a-march-23-celebration","title":{"rendered":"Ambitious Ales marks 5 years of beers and community gatherings with a March 23 celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the five friends behind Ambitious Ales opened their microbrewery in Bixby Knolls in 2019<\/a>, they had no idea how it would go. Five years later, their taproom and outdoor beer garden became a bustling community hub.<\/p>\n

The brewery is hosting a party on Saturday, March 23 to celebrate their five-year milestone with new merchandise, music, special beer releases, vendors and more.<\/p>\n

Balloon artist Scott Lee<\/a> will be twisting up his creations from noon to 3 p.m.,\u00a0<\/span>Dan McKinnon<\/a> will be performing close-up magic from 2 to 5 p.m. and face painting by Bella’s Creative Crew<\/a>\u00a0will be offered from 1 to 5 p.m.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The locally beloved\u00a0Hamburgers Nice<\/a>\u00a0will pop up at noon; Long Beach-based vegan, Filipino bakery San and Wolves<\/a> will be selling baked goods at 2 p.m. and Oaxacan pop-up Poncho\u2019s Tlayudas<\/a> will be there starting at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n

All vendors will serve until sellout, so attendees are urged to nab some bites as early as possible.<\/p>\n

The space the brewery has called home for the past five years was originally Tuttle Cameras, a camera and accessories store. It was the building itself that inspired the group of home brewers to open up a brick-and-mortar.<\/p>\n

The space presented an opportunity to breakaway from the standard craft brewery aesthetic \u2014 typically industrial, barren warehouses with some taps and a few chairs, co-owner Garrett Carroll said.<\/p>\n

“We were attracted to the vibrant, open space,” Carroll said. “It gave us the creativity to make the beer we want to make.”<\/p>\n

And even though they were only open for a year when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, it was the community and other local partnerships that saved their business.<\/p>\n

“We became a community hub, that was our goal from day one,” Carroll said. “We are forever grateful.”<\/p>\n

Carroll describes their growth as “organic”, stemming from word of mouth and focusing the business on crafting good customer service and creating fun beers with a lot of passion behind them. Part of their ethos has also been partnering with other businesses as they have regular food vendors pop up Fridays through Sundays at the brewery.<\/p>\n

Their most symbiotic partnership has been with the brewery’s neighbor, Jay Stebbins of Thunderbolt Pizza. Thunderbolt opened in late 2020<\/a>, moving into the former PowWow Pizza space.<\/p>\n

For Thunderbolt, which has a fairly small seating area, the taproom and beer garden has widened the number of customers they can serve.<\/p>\n

“We’re excited we can be alive for five years in Long Beach, in Bixby Knolls,” Carroll said.<\/p>\n

Ambitious Ales is at 4019 Atlantic Avenue. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To celebrate the milestone, the brewery will host a party on Saturday, March 23, offering new merchandise, music, special beer releases, vendors and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":314,"featured_media":71684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[467],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[32152],"class_list":["post-82214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","tag-ambitious-ales","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82214"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82227,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82214\/revisions\/82227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82214"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=82214"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=82214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}