James A.
Yelp
The Hanger at LBX has a unique history. It is a 17,000 square foot structure, built to remind of an aviation hangar where planes were built, on this very location. As expected, it is close to the Long Beach Airport (which also has a rich aviation history, celebrating its 100th birthday last year, making it the oldest airport in California), with a varied collection of different businesses around the area. This attracts a large lunchtime crowd, and makes finding parking in all the surrounding surface lots, a challenge.
We came for lunch on a Wednesday, and it was a very mixed lunch crowd with some tourists and families, but the vast majority being technology office workers taking a lunch break from nearby businesses (saw quite a few SpaceX polos walking around). There are 14 shops here, all of them being local restaurants or chains. We ended up stopping in for two of them. As expected for a food hall in this age, there was a prominent beer shop front and center. It's called bottlecraft, and has a large bar along with a decent amount of taps. They are unusual in their offered sizes (4 oz, 8 oz, 16 oz.)....but they also had taps that I had not seen before (like Pliny the Elder). I naturally went for the middle size, but then realized it's smaller than expected. So got a 16 oz of the Two Coast Hefeweizen from Two Coast Brewing in Gardena (16 oz for $8). It was very good, refreshing. I realized you could create your own beer table (six 4 oz for $18 which is a good price for the quality of beer being served).
Checkout their current beer list...you could make a nice, varied "flight".