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American Craft Beer Week, Day 4

ACBW, Alpine Inn, American Craft Beer Week, Business N Beer, GABF, Hermosa Beach, Hot's Kitchen, Local business, Photos, pictures, Southern California, Torrance / 2 minutes of reading / May 17, 2013

This group of photos are from American Craft Beer Week 2013 (ACBW), day 4. Regular readers know that on Thursdays we have our Business & Beer gatherings; so it was a little difficult for us to get out of town long enough to get to a Great American Beer Festival (GABF) winner and get back to the area for our Business & Beer meetup. Business & Beer was scheduled to be held at Alpine Inn at Alpine Village in Torrance, which could have been a great idea as they do have a wide selection of beers from local craft brewers …

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Business & Beer Meetup at Alpine Inn

Alpine, American Craft Beer Week, Business N Beer, gastropub, Local business, networking event, Photos, pictures, Southern California, Torrance / 1 minute of reading / May 17, 2013

These photos are from our Business & Beer gathering at Alpine Inn last night. Alpine Inn is a German gastropub at Alpine Village in Torrance. While a German restaurant might not seem like a likely setting for a Business & Beer gathering during American Craft Beer Week, the general manager is a home brewer and makes it a point to have a good selection of American craft beers on tap. Unfortunately, about one third of their taps were nonfunctional last night, so we were limited as to the number of American beers while there were plenty of German beers available. …

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Business & Beer Meetup at Abigaile

Beachwood Brewing, brewpub, Business N Beer, Hermosa Beach, Local brewers, networking event, Photos, pictures, Southern California, The Brewery at Abigaile / 1 minute of reading / May 14, 2013

These photos are from our Business and Beer gathering with Meetup last Thursday, May 9, at The Brewery at Abigaile. I cannot really say why I am just now getting around to posting the photos, other than it was a busy weekend. The Brewery at Abigaile is my favorite brewpub and is located in Hermosa Beach. I was introduced to them one year ago and became an instant fan. Last Thursday was a special evening at Abigaile in that they were doing a food pairing with Beachwood BBQ & Brewing from Long Beach and they are another of my favorite …

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Business & Beer Meetup at Tortilla Cantina

Business N Beer, gastropub, Local business, networking event, Photos, pictures, restaurants, Southern California, Torrance, Tortilla Cantina / 2 minutes of reading / May 4, 2013

These photos are from our Business & Beer gathering last week at Tortilla Cantina. As the photos show, we had a less than stellar turnout, with no participation at all from our Meetup group. Unfortunately, after corresponding with the people that run Meetup.com we have come to the conclusion that there is no point in continuing to use them. If anyone were to ask me if we found any value in incorporating Meetup to our group, I would have to say that after the initial payment, you are just throwing your money away. Of course, we have a lot more …

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Business & Beer does a Meetup at Monkish Brewing

Business N Beer, Local brewers, Local business, microbrewery, Monkish Brewing, networking event, Photos, pictures, Southern California, Torrance / 2 minutes of reading / April 19, 2013

These photos are from the Business & Beer Meetup which was held last night at Monkish Brewing Company in Torrance. Monkish Brewing is a microbrewery that specializes in Belgian style ales and has a wide selection of tasty brews available. Business & Beer had not been held at Monkish in about three months, and there were some massive changes not only in the beers on tap, but they have done a lot of remodeling which includes a new window, tap system and places for people to sit and enjoy their beer. As usual when we go to Monkish, we had …

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Business & Beer joins Meetup at Sophie’s Place

Business N Beer, gastropub, Local business, Meetup, networking event, Photos, pictures, Redondo Beach, Sophie's Place / 2 minutes of reading / April 12, 2013

These photos are from our Business & Beer/Meetup event that we had last night at Sophie’s Place, one of our favorite gastropubs, located in the Riviera Village in Redondo Beach, CA. We had a nice turnout of eight with a couple of them coming as a direct result of our using Meetup.com as a networking tool. Since the group was a little smaller than normal, it gave us an opportunity to interact more with our new guests. Our hosts, Sophie’s Place, even gave Tanya a slice of carrot cake (which she sliced up to share) and we had a rousing …

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Business & Beer returns to 1321 Downtown Taproom Bistro

1321 Downtown Taproom & Bistro, Business N Beer, gastropub, Local business, Meetup, networking event, Photos, pictures, Southern California, Torrance / 2 minutes of reading / March 22, 2013

Last night, Business & Beer returned to the 1321 Downtown Taproom Bistro for the second time; and Meetup joined us for the third consecutive week. It seems that Meetup is helping our networking group grow a little at a time, with two or three new attendees as a direct result of Meetup and a couple of them are becoming regular attendees. With the combination of Facebook, Meetup and word of mouth, BusinessNBeer is growing and business connections are being made. It is fun to sit back and watch as our attendees introduce themselves to each other and discover that there …

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Business & Beer joins Meetup at The Rockefeller

Business N Beer, gastropub, Hermosa Beach, Local business, Meetup, networking event, Photos, pictures, The Rockefeller / 2 minutes of reading / March 15, 2013

The photos are from our Business & Beer networking group’s gathering at the Hermosa Beach gastropub, The Rockefeller. As I mentioned last week, we have decided to give Meetup.com a chance to see if we could build on the number of people that attend our networking events. Last week, with short notice, we had two new attendees that were a direct result of our joining meetup. Last night there were at least three Meetup attendees, however, we had more new people that regulars last night and I am not entirely sure if some of the others were there because of …

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Business & Beer Joins Meetup at Alpine Inn

Alpine Inn, Alpine Village, Business N Beer, craft, Local business, networking event, Photos, pictures, restaurants, Torrance / 2 minutes of reading / March 8, 2013

These photos are from our Business & Beer gathering at Alpine Inn, located at the Alpine Village in Torrance. Over the weekend we decided that we would try out the Meetup business networking platform to see if we could generate some additional interest from people that do not use Facebook. What we did not realize is that they have an approval process, so it took a few days before we were actually added to the system. In two days we got 10 new members, but as far as attendance is concerned, we had two people that joined us as a …

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Strand Brewing Co hosts another Business & Beer

Business N Beer, Local brewers, Local business, networking event, Photos, pictures, strand brewing, Torrance / 2 minutes of reading / March 1, 2013

The South Bay’s most fun business networking group, Business & Beer, returned to the Strand Brewing Company tasting room Thursday and I think it is safe to say that everyone had a good time. We had close to 15 people come by with several of them being second time attendees. In addition, Rich Marcello, one of the co-owners of Strand Brewing Co, is always good about directing his customers that might benefit from our networking group over to us. We definitely appreciate it. For those that are familiar with Strand Brewing Company but have not visited in the last couple …

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