"Southern California craft beer staple Beachwood Brewing is adding to its fleet of spaces, opening the new Beachwood Brewing & Distilling on Saturday, August 20. The new 24-tap tasting room and spirits distillery sits in the Bixby Knolls area of Long Beach at 3630 Atlantic Avenue, housed inside the former location of the now-shuttered Liberation Brewing. Really though, this new distillery space is just one part of a big new plan to expand beyond beer for Beachwood. The group’s new tasting room will offer small-batch limited craft beers brewed on site, as well as Lambic-style brews from the Beachwood Blendery, and west coast IPA favorites from the company’s existing brewing facility in Huntington Beach. That’s a lot of craft beer for the brew-craving Long Beach area, but it’s the distillery operation that is really raising eyebrows. Once fully operational, it will make Beachwood not only one of just a few distillers in Long Beach, but it also places the operation into an even more elite club of brewers going down the path of craft cocktails." - Matt Miller