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Do-it-yourself craft beer brewing comes to Torrance at new Zymurgy Brew Works
If you enjoy craft beer and have no clue what the word “zymurgy” means, longtime local educator Bill Baker can give you a little schooling.
The school district employee has opened Zymurgy Brew Works & Tasting Room at 22755 Hawthorne Blvd. in Torrance.
It’s the South Bay’s only do-it-yourself brewing operation where you can rustle up a few friends and spend a leisurely afternoon brewing your own batch of custom craft beer under the supervision of a brewmaster.
“We wanted to explain the craft behind craft beer,” Baker said. 𠇊 lot of people don’t know what goes into brewing — I didn’t.”
Baker and a friend dreamed up the idea over a couple of beers at a local brewery. It isn’t a new idea, of course.
The longtime South Bay resident fondly recalls the long-departed Hamilton Gregg Brewworks, which in the mid-1990s billed itself as the first DIY brewery in the nation.
But the concept was a few years ahead of its time. The craft beer industry had yet to take off like it has today, although Huntington Beach is still home to DIY brewery Brewbakers.
The time had come, Baker reasoned, to try again in the South Bay, now one of the hot spots for the craft brewery industry in Los Angeles County.
Project among friends
So he enlisted the help of a few craft beer buddies — including John Hendrick, an experienced home brewer and his son’s former Little League coach — and the result is the storefront on busy Hawthorne Boulevard.
Brewing beer at home is not only time-consuming, it involves a lot of work, especially when it comes to keeping equipment clean.
“What we’ve tried to do is take out the prepping and the cleaning,” Hendrick said, explaining that six hours of potential drudgery is narrowed down to a more manageable three.
Zymurgy will weigh and mill most of the grains and ensure that the time-consuming process of bringing the 15-gallon kettles up to temperature is done before a customer even walks in the door.
There’s stirring and adding hops and more stirring, but Baker and company literally do the heavy lifting.
That leaves time for a little education — What’s ‘wort’ you may well ask? — and sampling the beer on tap.
In fact, you don’t need to brew to enjoy Zymergy.
The space has a modest bar to sample what others are brewing and tables to bring in your own lunch while watching others brew. Beers also can be purchased to go in glass growlers.
‘It’s all real grain’
Unlike Hamilton Gregg, which used a syrup-like extract instead of milled grain, Zymurgy goes out of its way to strive for greater authenticity.
“It’s all real grain, which is how real breweries brew,” Baker said. “Our goal was to be in line with commercial breweries as much as possible.”
Using grain instead of extract provides a greater degree of control and creativity to the brewing process, Hendrick said.
About the only kind of beer that’s unavailable to brew is a lager.
A lager uses a different and longer brewing process than an ale, and plenty of inexpensive lagers can be found on the shelves of local stores.
But if customers want something specific — say, a session India pale ale using citra hops — Zymurgy can help.
Hendrick has created many of the recipes for available beer styles at home over the years and adapted them to the larger scale Zymurgy uses.
Brewing requires two Zymurgy visits the second involves applying a custom-designed label and bottling your creation. Kegs also are available.
When finished, five to 15 gallons of personalized beer costing $160 to $280 — people often spilt the cost between a party of four, for instance — are ready to take home. Reusable bottles are extra.
Taking a bottle of custom beer over to a friend’s house for dinner or a birthday gift is where it’s at these days, craft beer fans insist bringing a bottle of wine is so 1990s.
It’s part education, part community and part social interaction, said Jeremy Triplett of Hawthorne, who was brewing with a couple of friends one recent Saturday.
The trio played a card game and munched on pizza while waiting for their beer to boil.
“I’ve always wanted to make my own beer,” Triplett said. “It’s cost-efficient and it’s been pretty fun so far. This place makes it seem a lot easier.”
And educational, too, chimed in friend Vanessa Pon of Lawndale, who came straight to Zymurgy — that’s the name for the branch of chemistry related to the fermentation process in brewing — from an accounting class at Cal State Dominguez Hills.
“I feel like I’ve been in class all day,” she said, hoisting a glass.
Do-it-yourself craft beer brewing comes to Torrance at new Zymurgy Brew Works
If you enjoy craft beer and have no clue what the word “zymurgy” means, longtime local educator Bill Baker can give you a little schooling.
The school district employee has opened Zymurgy Brew Works & Tasting Room at 22755 Hawthorne Blvd. in Torrance.
It’s the South Bay’s only do-it-yourself brewing operation where you can rustle up a few friends and spend a leisurely afternoon brewing your own batch of custom craft beer under the supervision of a brewmaster.
“We wanted to explain the craft behind craft beer,” Baker said. 𠇊 lot of people don’t know what goes into brewing — I didn’t.”
Baker and a friend dreamed up the idea over a couple of beers at a local brewery. It isn’t a new idea, of course.
The longtime South Bay resident fondly recalls the long-departed Hamilton Gregg Brewworks, which in the mid-1990s billed itself as the first DIY brewery in the nation.
But the concept was a few years ahead of its time. The craft beer industry had yet to take off like it has today, although Huntington Beach is still home to DIY brewery Brewbakers.
The time had come, Baker reasoned, to try again in the South Bay, now one of the hot spots for the craft brewery industry in Los Angeles County.
Project among friends
So he enlisted the help of a few craft beer buddies — including John Hendrick, an experienced home brewer and his son’s former Little League coach — and the result is the storefront on busy Hawthorne Boulevard.
Brewing beer at home is not only time-consuming, it involves a lot of work, especially when it comes to keeping equipment clean.
“What we’ve tried to do is take out the prepping and the cleaning,” Hendrick said, explaining that six hours of potential drudgery is narrowed down to a more manageable three.
Zymurgy will weigh and mill most of the grains and ensure that the time-consuming process of bringing the 15-gallon kettles up to temperature is done before a customer even walks in the door.
There’s stirring and adding hops and more stirring, but Baker and company literally do the heavy lifting.
That leaves time for a little education — What’s ‘wort’ you may well ask? — and sampling the beer on tap.
In fact, you don’t need to brew to enjoy Zymergy.
The space has a modest bar to sample what others are brewing and tables to bring in your own lunch while watching others brew. Beers also can be purchased to go in glass growlers.
‘It’s all real grain’
Unlike Hamilton Gregg, which used a syrup-like extract instead of milled grain, Zymurgy goes out of its way to strive for greater authenticity.
“It’s all real grain, which is how real breweries brew,” Baker said. “Our goal was to be in line with commercial breweries as much as possible.”
Using grain instead of extract provides a greater degree of control and creativity to the brewing process, Hendrick said.
About the only kind of beer that’s unavailable to brew is a lager.
A lager uses a different and longer brewing process than an ale, and plenty of inexpensive lagers can be found on the shelves of local stores.
But if customers want something specific — say, a session India pale ale using citra hops — Zymurgy can help.
Hendrick has created many of the recipes for available beer styles at home over the years and adapted them to the larger scale Zymurgy uses.
Brewing requires two Zymurgy visits the second involves applying a custom-designed label and bottling your creation. Kegs also are available.
When finished, five to 15 gallons of personalized beer costing $160 to $280 — people often spilt the cost between a party of four, for instance — are ready to take home. Reusable bottles are extra.
Taking a bottle of custom beer over to a friend’s house for dinner or a birthday gift is where it’s at these days, craft beer fans insist bringing a bottle of wine is so 1990s.
It’s part education, part community and part social interaction, said Jeremy Triplett of Hawthorne, who was brewing with a couple of friends one recent Saturday.
The trio played a card game and munched on pizza while waiting for their beer to boil.
“I’ve always wanted to make my own beer,” Triplett said. “It’s cost-efficient and it’s been pretty fun so far. This place makes it seem a lot easier.”
And educational, too, chimed in friend Vanessa Pon of Lawndale, who came straight to Zymurgy — that’s the name for the branch of chemistry related to the fermentation process in brewing — from an accounting class at Cal State Dominguez Hills.
“I feel like I’ve been in class all day,” she said, hoisting a glass.
Do-it-yourself craft beer brewing comes to Torrance at new Zymurgy Brew Works
If you enjoy craft beer and have no clue what the word “zymurgy” means, longtime local educator Bill Baker can give you a little schooling.
The school district employee has opened Zymurgy Brew Works & Tasting Room at 22755 Hawthorne Blvd. in Torrance.
It’s the South Bay’s only do-it-yourself brewing operation where you can rustle up a few friends and spend a leisurely afternoon brewing your own batch of custom craft beer under the supervision of a brewmaster.
“We wanted to explain the craft behind craft beer,” Baker said. 𠇊 lot of people don’t know what goes into brewing — I didn’t.”
Baker and a friend dreamed up the idea over a couple of beers at a local brewery. It isn’t a new idea, of course.
The longtime South Bay resident fondly recalls the long-departed Hamilton Gregg Brewworks, which in the mid-1990s billed itself as the first DIY brewery in the nation.
But the concept was a few years ahead of its time. The craft beer industry had yet to take off like it has today, although Huntington Beach is still home to DIY brewery Brewbakers.
The time had come, Baker reasoned, to try again in the South Bay, now one of the hot spots for the craft brewery industry in Los Angeles County.
Project among friends
So he enlisted the help of a few craft beer buddies — including John Hendrick, an experienced home brewer and his son’s former Little League coach — and the result is the storefront on busy Hawthorne Boulevard.
Brewing beer at home is not only time-consuming, it involves a lot of work, especially when it comes to keeping equipment clean.
“What we’ve tried to do is take out the prepping and the cleaning,” Hendrick said, explaining that six hours of potential drudgery is narrowed down to a more manageable three.
Zymurgy will weigh and mill most of the grains and ensure that the time-consuming process of bringing the 15-gallon kettles up to temperature is done before a customer even walks in the door.
There’s stirring and adding hops and more stirring, but Baker and company literally do the heavy lifting.
That leaves time for a little education — What’s ‘wort’ you may well ask? — and sampling the beer on tap.
In fact, you don’t need to brew to enjoy Zymergy.
The space has a modest bar to sample what others are brewing and tables to bring in your own lunch while watching others brew. Beers also can be purchased to go in glass growlers.
‘It’s all real grain’
Unlike Hamilton Gregg, which used a syrup-like extract instead of milled grain, Zymurgy goes out of its way to strive for greater authenticity.
“It’s all real grain, which is how real breweries brew,” Baker said. “Our goal was to be in line with commercial breweries as much as possible.”
Using grain instead of extract provides a greater degree of control and creativity to the brewing process, Hendrick said.
About the only kind of beer that’s unavailable to brew is a lager.
A lager uses a different and longer brewing process than an ale, and plenty of inexpensive lagers can be found on the shelves of local stores.
But if customers want something specific — say, a session India pale ale using citra hops — Zymurgy can help.
Hendrick has created many of the recipes for available beer styles at home over the years and adapted them to the larger scale Zymurgy uses.
Brewing requires two Zymurgy visits the second involves applying a custom-designed label and bottling your creation. Kegs also are available.
When finished, five to 15 gallons of personalized beer costing $160 to $280 — people often spilt the cost between a party of four, for instance — are ready to take home. Reusable bottles are extra.
Taking a bottle of custom beer over to a friend’s house for dinner or a birthday gift is where it’s at these days, craft beer fans insist bringing a bottle of wine is so 1990s.
It’s part education, part community and part social interaction, said Jeremy Triplett of Hawthorne, who was brewing with a couple of friends one recent Saturday.
The trio played a card game and munched on pizza while waiting for their beer to boil.
“I’ve always wanted to make my own beer,” Triplett said. “It’s cost-efficient and it’s been pretty fun so far. This place makes it seem a lot easier.”
And educational, too, chimed in friend Vanessa Pon of Lawndale, who came straight to Zymurgy — that’s the name for the branch of chemistry related to the fermentation process in brewing — from an accounting class at Cal State Dominguez Hills.
“I feel like I’ve been in class all day,” she said, hoisting a glass.
Do-it-yourself craft beer brewing comes to Torrance at new Zymurgy Brew Works
If you enjoy craft beer and have no clue what the word “zymurgy” means, longtime local educator Bill Baker can give you a little schooling.
The school district employee has opened Zymurgy Brew Works & Tasting Room at 22755 Hawthorne Blvd. in Torrance.
It’s the South Bay’s only do-it-yourself brewing operation where you can rustle up a few friends and spend a leisurely afternoon brewing your own batch of custom craft beer under the supervision of a brewmaster.
“We wanted to explain the craft behind craft beer,” Baker said. 𠇊 lot of people don’t know what goes into brewing — I didn’t.”
Baker and a friend dreamed up the idea over a couple of beers at a local brewery. It isn’t a new idea, of course.
The longtime South Bay resident fondly recalls the long-departed Hamilton Gregg Brewworks, which in the mid-1990s billed itself as the first DIY brewery in the nation.
But the concept was a few years ahead of its time. The craft beer industry had yet to take off like it has today, although Huntington Beach is still home to DIY brewery Brewbakers.
The time had come, Baker reasoned, to try again in the South Bay, now one of the hot spots for the craft brewery industry in Los Angeles County.
Project among friends
So he enlisted the help of a few craft beer buddies — including John Hendrick, an experienced home brewer and his son’s former Little League coach — and the result is the storefront on busy Hawthorne Boulevard.
Brewing beer at home is not only time-consuming, it involves a lot of work, especially when it comes to keeping equipment clean.
“What we’ve tried to do is take out the prepping and the cleaning,” Hendrick said, explaining that six hours of potential drudgery is narrowed down to a more manageable three.
Zymurgy will weigh and mill most of the grains and ensure that the time-consuming process of bringing the 15-gallon kettles up to temperature is done before a customer even walks in the door.
There’s stirring and adding hops and more stirring, but Baker and company literally do the heavy lifting.
That leaves time for a little education — What’s ‘wort’ you may well ask? — and sampling the beer on tap.
In fact, you don’t need to brew to enjoy Zymergy.
The space has a modest bar to sample what others are brewing and tables to bring in your own lunch while watching others brew. Beers also can be purchased to go in glass growlers.
‘It’s all real grain’
Unlike Hamilton Gregg, which used a syrup-like extract instead of milled grain, Zymurgy goes out of its way to strive for greater authenticity.
“It’s all real grain, which is how real breweries brew,” Baker said. “Our goal was to be in line with commercial breweries as much as possible.”
Using grain instead of extract provides a greater degree of control and creativity to the brewing process, Hendrick said.
About the only kind of beer that’s unavailable to brew is a lager.
A lager uses a different and longer brewing process than an ale, and plenty of inexpensive lagers can be found on the shelves of local stores.
But if customers want something specific — say, a session India pale ale using citra hops — Zymurgy can help.
Hendrick has created many of the recipes for available beer styles at home over the years and adapted them to the larger scale Zymurgy uses.
Brewing requires two Zymurgy visits the second involves applying a custom-designed label and bottling your creation. Kegs also are available.
When finished, five to 15 gallons of personalized beer costing $160 to $280 — people often spilt the cost between a party of four, for instance — are ready to take home. Reusable bottles are extra.
Taking a bottle of custom beer over to a friend’s house for dinner or a birthday gift is where it’s at these days, craft beer fans insist bringing a bottle of wine is so 1990s.
It’s part education, part community and part social interaction, said Jeremy Triplett of Hawthorne, who was brewing with a couple of friends one recent Saturday.
The trio played a card game and munched on pizza while waiting for their beer to boil.
“I’ve always wanted to make my own beer,” Triplett said. “It’s cost-efficient and it’s been pretty fun so far. This place makes it seem a lot easier.”
And educational, too, chimed in friend Vanessa Pon of Lawndale, who came straight to Zymurgy — that’s the name for the branch of chemistry related to the fermentation process in brewing — from an accounting class at Cal State Dominguez Hills.
“I feel like I’ve been in class all day,” she said, hoisting a glass.
Do-it-yourself craft beer brewing comes to Torrance at new Zymurgy Brew Works
If you enjoy craft beer and have no clue what the word “zymurgy” means, longtime local educator Bill Baker can give you a little schooling.
The school district employee has opened Zymurgy Brew Works & Tasting Room at 22755 Hawthorne Blvd. in Torrance.
It’s the South Bay’s only do-it-yourself brewing operation where you can rustle up a few friends and spend a leisurely afternoon brewing your own batch of custom craft beer under the supervision of a brewmaster.
“We wanted to explain the craft behind craft beer,” Baker said. 𠇊 lot of people don’t know what goes into brewing — I didn’t.”
Baker and a friend dreamed up the idea over a couple of beers at a local brewery. It isn’t a new idea, of course.
The longtime South Bay resident fondly recalls the long-departed Hamilton Gregg Brewworks, which in the mid-1990s billed itself as the first DIY brewery in the nation.
But the concept was a few years ahead of its time. The craft beer industry had yet to take off like it has today, although Huntington Beach is still home to DIY brewery Brewbakers.
The time had come, Baker reasoned, to try again in the South Bay, now one of the hot spots for the craft brewery industry in Los Angeles County.
Project among friends
So he enlisted the help of a few craft beer buddies — including John Hendrick, an experienced home brewer and his son’s former Little League coach — and the result is the storefront on busy Hawthorne Boulevard.
Brewing beer at home is not only time-consuming, it involves a lot of work, especially when it comes to keeping equipment clean.
“What we’ve tried to do is take out the prepping and the cleaning,” Hendrick said, explaining that six hours of potential drudgery is narrowed down to a more manageable three.
Zymurgy will weigh and mill most of the grains and ensure that the time-consuming process of bringing the 15-gallon kettles up to temperature is done before a customer even walks in the door.
There’s stirring and adding hops and more stirring, but Baker and company literally do the heavy lifting.
That leaves time for a little education — What’s ‘wort’ you may well ask? — and sampling the beer on tap.
In fact, you don’t need to brew to enjoy Zymergy.
The space has a modest bar to sample what others are brewing and tables to bring in your own lunch while watching others brew. Beers also can be purchased to go in glass growlers.
‘It’s all real grain’
Unlike Hamilton Gregg, which used a syrup-like extract instead of milled grain, Zymurgy goes out of its way to strive for greater authenticity.
“It’s all real grain, which is how real breweries brew,” Baker said. “Our goal was to be in line with commercial breweries as much as possible.”
Using grain instead of extract provides a greater degree of control and creativity to the brewing process, Hendrick said.
About the only kind of beer that’s unavailable to brew is a lager.
A lager uses a different and longer brewing process than an ale, and plenty of inexpensive lagers can be found on the shelves of local stores.
But if customers want something specific — say, a session India pale ale using citra hops — Zymurgy can help.
Hendrick has created many of the recipes for available beer styles at home over the years and adapted them to the larger scale Zymurgy uses.
Brewing requires two Zymurgy visits the second involves applying a custom-designed label and bottling your creation. Kegs also are available.
When finished, five to 15 gallons of personalized beer costing $160 to $280 — people often spilt the cost between a party of four, for instance — are ready to take home. Reusable bottles are extra.
Taking a bottle of custom beer over to a friend’s house for dinner or a birthday gift is where it’s at these days, craft beer fans insist bringing a bottle of wine is so 1990s.
It’s part education, part community and part social interaction, said Jeremy Triplett of Hawthorne, who was brewing with a couple of friends one recent Saturday.
The trio played a card game and munched on pizza while waiting for their beer to boil.
“I’ve always wanted to make my own beer,” Triplett said. “It’s cost-efficient and it’s been pretty fun so far. This place makes it seem a lot easier.”
And educational, too, chimed in friend Vanessa Pon of Lawndale, who came straight to Zymurgy — that’s the name for the branch of chemistry related to the fermentation process in brewing — from an accounting class at Cal State Dominguez Hills.
“I feel like I’ve been in class all day,” she said, hoisting a glass.
Do-it-yourself craft beer brewing comes to Torrance at new Zymurgy Brew Works
If you enjoy craft beer and have no clue what the word “zymurgy” means, longtime local educator Bill Baker can give you a little schooling.
The school district employee has opened Zymurgy Brew Works & Tasting Room at 22755 Hawthorne Blvd. in Torrance.
It’s the South Bay’s only do-it-yourself brewing operation where you can rustle up a few friends and spend a leisurely afternoon brewing your own batch of custom craft beer under the supervision of a brewmaster.
“We wanted to explain the craft behind craft beer,” Baker said. 𠇊 lot of people don’t know what goes into brewing — I didn’t.”
Baker and a friend dreamed up the idea over a couple of beers at a local brewery. It isn’t a new idea, of course.
The longtime South Bay resident fondly recalls the long-departed Hamilton Gregg Brewworks, which in the mid-1990s billed itself as the first DIY brewery in the nation.
But the concept was a few years ahead of its time. The craft beer industry had yet to take off like it has today, although Huntington Beach is still home to DIY brewery Brewbakers.
The time had come, Baker reasoned, to try again in the South Bay, now one of the hot spots for the craft brewery industry in Los Angeles County.
Project among friends
So he enlisted the help of a few craft beer buddies — including John Hendrick, an experienced home brewer and his son’s former Little League coach — and the result is the storefront on busy Hawthorne Boulevard.
Brewing beer at home is not only time-consuming, it involves a lot of work, especially when it comes to keeping equipment clean.
“What we’ve tried to do is take out the prepping and the cleaning,” Hendrick said, explaining that six hours of potential drudgery is narrowed down to a more manageable three.
Zymurgy will weigh and mill most of the grains and ensure that the time-consuming process of bringing the 15-gallon kettles up to temperature is done before a customer even walks in the door.
There’s stirring and adding hops and more stirring, but Baker and company literally do the heavy lifting.
That leaves time for a little education — What’s ‘wort’ you may well ask? — and sampling the beer on tap.
In fact, you don’t need to brew to enjoy Zymergy.
The space has a modest bar to sample what others are brewing and tables to bring in your own lunch while watching others brew. Beers also can be purchased to go in glass growlers.
‘It’s all real grain’
Unlike Hamilton Gregg, which used a syrup-like extract instead of milled grain, Zymurgy goes out of its way to strive for greater authenticity.
“It’s all real grain, which is how real breweries brew,” Baker said. “Our goal was to be in line with commercial breweries as much as possible.”
Using grain instead of extract provides a greater degree of control and creativity to the brewing process, Hendrick said.
About the only kind of beer that’s unavailable to brew is a lager.
A lager uses a different and longer brewing process than an ale, and plenty of inexpensive lagers can be found on the shelves of local stores.
But if customers want something specific — say, a session India pale ale using citra hops — Zymurgy can help.
Hendrick has created many of the recipes for available beer styles at home over the years and adapted them to the larger scale Zymurgy uses.
Brewing requires two Zymurgy visits the second involves applying a custom-designed label and bottling your creation. Kegs also are available.
When finished, five to 15 gallons of personalized beer costing $160 to $280 — people often spilt the cost between a party of four, for instance — are ready to take home. Reusable bottles are extra.
Taking a bottle of custom beer over to a friend’s house for dinner or a birthday gift is where it’s at these days, craft beer fans insist bringing a bottle of wine is so 1990s.
It’s part education, part community and part social interaction, said Jeremy Triplett of Hawthorne, who was brewing with a couple of friends one recent Saturday.
The trio played a card game and munched on pizza while waiting for their beer to boil.
“I’ve always wanted to make my own beer,” Triplett said. “It’s cost-efficient and it’s been pretty fun so far. This place makes it seem a lot easier.”
And educational, too, chimed in friend Vanessa Pon of Lawndale, who came straight to Zymurgy — that’s the name for the branch of chemistry related to the fermentation process in brewing — from an accounting class at Cal State Dominguez Hills.
“I feel like I’ve been in class all day,” she said, hoisting a glass.
Do-it-yourself craft beer brewing comes to Torrance at new Zymurgy Brew Works
If you enjoy craft beer and have no clue what the word “zymurgy” means, longtime local educator Bill Baker can give you a little schooling.
The school district employee has opened Zymurgy Brew Works & Tasting Room at 22755 Hawthorne Blvd. in Torrance.
It’s the South Bay’s only do-it-yourself brewing operation where you can rustle up a few friends and spend a leisurely afternoon brewing your own batch of custom craft beer under the supervision of a brewmaster.
“We wanted to explain the craft behind craft beer,” Baker said. 𠇊 lot of people don’t know what goes into brewing — I didn’t.”
Baker and a friend dreamed up the idea over a couple of beers at a local brewery. It isn’t a new idea, of course.
The longtime South Bay resident fondly recalls the long-departed Hamilton Gregg Brewworks, which in the mid-1990s billed itself as the first DIY brewery in the nation.
But the concept was a few years ahead of its time. The craft beer industry had yet to take off like it has today, although Huntington Beach is still home to DIY brewery Brewbakers.
The time had come, Baker reasoned, to try again in the South Bay, now one of the hot spots for the craft brewery industry in Los Angeles County.
Project among friends
So he enlisted the help of a few craft beer buddies — including John Hendrick, an experienced home brewer and his son’s former Little League coach — and the result is the storefront on busy Hawthorne Boulevard.
Brewing beer at home is not only time-consuming, it involves a lot of work, especially when it comes to keeping equipment clean.
“What we’ve tried to do is take out the prepping and the cleaning,” Hendrick said, explaining that six hours of potential drudgery is narrowed down to a more manageable three.
Zymurgy will weigh and mill most of the grains and ensure that the time-consuming process of bringing the 15-gallon kettles up to temperature is done before a customer even walks in the door.
There’s stirring and adding hops and more stirring, but Baker and company literally do the heavy lifting.
That leaves time for a little education — What’s ‘wort’ you may well ask? — and sampling the beer on tap.
In fact, you don’t need to brew to enjoy Zymergy.
The space has a modest bar to sample what others are brewing and tables to bring in your own lunch while watching others brew. Beers also can be purchased to go in glass growlers.
‘It’s all real grain’
Unlike Hamilton Gregg, which used a syrup-like extract instead of milled grain, Zymurgy goes out of its way to strive for greater authenticity.
“It’s all real grain, which is how real breweries brew,” Baker said. “Our goal was to be in line with commercial breweries as much as possible.”
Using grain instead of extract provides a greater degree of control and creativity to the brewing process, Hendrick said.
About the only kind of beer that’s unavailable to brew is a lager.
A lager uses a different and longer brewing process than an ale, and plenty of inexpensive lagers can be found on the shelves of local stores.
But if customers want something specific — say, a session India pale ale using citra hops — Zymurgy can help.
Hendrick has created many of the recipes for available beer styles at home over the years and adapted them to the larger scale Zymurgy uses.
Brewing requires two Zymurgy visits the second involves applying a custom-designed label and bottling your creation. Kegs also are available.
When finished, five to 15 gallons of personalized beer costing $160 to $280 — people often spilt the cost between a party of four, for instance — are ready to take home. Reusable bottles are extra.
Taking a bottle of custom beer over to a friend’s house for dinner or a birthday gift is where it’s at these days, craft beer fans insist bringing a bottle of wine is so 1990s.
It’s part education, part community and part social interaction, said Jeremy Triplett of Hawthorne, who was brewing with a couple of friends one recent Saturday.
The trio played a card game and munched on pizza while waiting for their beer to boil.
“I’ve always wanted to make my own beer,” Triplett said. “It’s cost-efficient and it’s been pretty fun so far. This place makes it seem a lot easier.”
And educational, too, chimed in friend Vanessa Pon of Lawndale, who came straight to Zymurgy — that’s the name for the branch of chemistry related to the fermentation process in brewing — from an accounting class at Cal State Dominguez Hills.
“I feel like I’ve been in class all day,” she said, hoisting a glass.
Do-it-yourself craft beer brewing comes to Torrance at new Zymurgy Brew Works
If you enjoy craft beer and have no clue what the word “zymurgy” means, longtime local educator Bill Baker can give you a little schooling.
The school district employee has opened Zymurgy Brew Works & Tasting Room at 22755 Hawthorne Blvd. in Torrance.
It’s the South Bay’s only do-it-yourself brewing operation where you can rustle up a few friends and spend a leisurely afternoon brewing your own batch of custom craft beer under the supervision of a brewmaster.
“We wanted to explain the craft behind craft beer,” Baker said. 𠇊 lot of people don’t know what goes into brewing — I didn’t.”
Baker and a friend dreamed up the idea over a couple of beers at a local brewery. It isn’t a new idea, of course.
The longtime South Bay resident fondly recalls the long-departed Hamilton Gregg Brewworks, which in the mid-1990s billed itself as the first DIY brewery in the nation.
But the concept was a few years ahead of its time. The craft beer industry had yet to take off like it has today, although Huntington Beach is still home to DIY brewery Brewbakers.
The time had come, Baker reasoned, to try again in the South Bay, now one of the hot spots for the craft brewery industry in Los Angeles County.
Project among friends
So he enlisted the help of a few craft beer buddies — including John Hendrick, an experienced home brewer and his son’s former Little League coach — and the result is the storefront on busy Hawthorne Boulevard.
Brewing beer at home is not only time-consuming, it involves a lot of work, especially when it comes to keeping equipment clean.
“What we’ve tried to do is take out the prepping and the cleaning,” Hendrick said, explaining that six hours of potential drudgery is narrowed down to a more manageable three.
Zymurgy will weigh and mill most of the grains and ensure that the time-consuming process of bringing the 15-gallon kettles up to temperature is done before a customer even walks in the door.
There’s stirring and adding hops and more stirring, but Baker and company literally do the heavy lifting.
That leaves time for a little education — What’s ‘wort’ you may well ask? — and sampling the beer on tap.
In fact, you don’t need to brew to enjoy Zymergy.
The space has a modest bar to sample what others are brewing and tables to bring in your own lunch while watching others brew. Beers also can be purchased to go in glass growlers.
‘It’s all real grain’
Unlike Hamilton Gregg, which used a syrup-like extract instead of milled grain, Zymurgy goes out of its way to strive for greater authenticity.
“It’s all real grain, which is how real breweries brew,” Baker said. “Our goal was to be in line with commercial breweries as much as possible.”
Using grain instead of extract provides a greater degree of control and creativity to the brewing process, Hendrick said.
About the only kind of beer that’s unavailable to brew is a lager.
A lager uses a different and longer brewing process than an ale, and plenty of inexpensive lagers can be found on the shelves of local stores.
But if customers want something specific — say, a session India pale ale using citra hops — Zymurgy can help.
Hendrick has created many of the recipes for available beer styles at home over the years and adapted them to the larger scale Zymurgy uses.
Brewing requires two Zymurgy visits the second involves applying a custom-designed label and bottling your creation. Kegs also are available.
When finished, five to 15 gallons of personalized beer costing $160 to $280 — people often spilt the cost between a party of four, for instance — are ready to take home. Reusable bottles are extra.
Taking a bottle of custom beer over to a friend’s house for dinner or a birthday gift is where it’s at these days, craft beer fans insist bringing a bottle of wine is so 1990s.
It’s part education, part community and part social interaction, said Jeremy Triplett of Hawthorne, who was brewing with a couple of friends one recent Saturday.
The trio played a card game and munched on pizza while waiting for their beer to boil.
“I’ve always wanted to make my own beer,” Triplett said. “It’s cost-efficient and it’s been pretty fun so far. This place makes it seem a lot easier.”
And educational, too, chimed in friend Vanessa Pon of Lawndale, who came straight to Zymurgy — that’s the name for the branch of chemistry related to the fermentation process in brewing — from an accounting class at Cal State Dominguez Hills.
“I feel like I’ve been in class all day,” she said, hoisting a glass.
Do-it-yourself craft beer brewing comes to Torrance at new Zymurgy Brew Works
If you enjoy craft beer and have no clue what the word “zymurgy” means, longtime local educator Bill Baker can give you a little schooling.
The school district employee has opened Zymurgy Brew Works & Tasting Room at 22755 Hawthorne Blvd. in Torrance.
It’s the South Bay’s only do-it-yourself brewing operation where you can rustle up a few friends and spend a leisurely afternoon brewing your own batch of custom craft beer under the supervision of a brewmaster.
“We wanted to explain the craft behind craft beer,” Baker said. 𠇊 lot of people don’t know what goes into brewing — I didn’t.”
Baker and a friend dreamed up the idea over a couple of beers at a local brewery. It isn’t a new idea, of course.
The longtime South Bay resident fondly recalls the long-departed Hamilton Gregg Brewworks, which in the mid-1990s billed itself as the first DIY brewery in the nation.
But the concept was a few years ahead of its time. The craft beer industry had yet to take off like it has today, although Huntington Beach is still home to DIY brewery Brewbakers.
The time had come, Baker reasoned, to try again in the South Bay, now one of the hot spots for the craft brewery industry in Los Angeles County.
Project among friends
So he enlisted the help of a few craft beer buddies — including John Hendrick, an experienced home brewer and his son’s former Little League coach — and the result is the storefront on busy Hawthorne Boulevard.
Brewing beer at home is not only time-consuming, it involves a lot of work, especially when it comes to keeping equipment clean.
“What we’ve tried to do is take out the prepping and the cleaning,” Hendrick said, explaining that six hours of potential drudgery is narrowed down to a more manageable three.
Zymurgy will weigh and mill most of the grains and ensure that the time-consuming process of bringing the 15-gallon kettles up to temperature is done before a customer even walks in the door.
There’s stirring and adding hops and more stirring, but Baker and company literally do the heavy lifting.
That leaves time for a little education — What’s ‘wort’ you may well ask? — and sampling the beer on tap.
In fact, you don’t need to brew to enjoy Zymergy.
The space has a modest bar to sample what others are brewing and tables to bring in your own lunch while watching others brew. Beers also can be purchased to go in glass growlers.
‘It’s all real grain’
Unlike Hamilton Gregg, which used a syrup-like extract instead of milled grain, Zymurgy goes out of its way to strive for greater authenticity.
“It’s all real grain, which is how real breweries brew,” Baker said. “Our goal was to be in line with commercial breweries as much as possible.”
Using grain instead of extract provides a greater degree of control and creativity to the brewing process, Hendrick said.
About the only kind of beer that’s unavailable to brew is a lager.
A lager uses a different and longer brewing process than an ale, and plenty of inexpensive lagers can be found on the shelves of local stores.
But if customers want something specific — say, a session India pale ale using citra hops — Zymurgy can help.
Hendrick has created many of the recipes for available beer styles at home over the years and adapted them to the larger scale Zymurgy uses.
Brewing requires two Zymurgy visits the second involves applying a custom-designed label and bottling your creation. Kegs also are available.
When finished, five to 15 gallons of personalized beer costing $160 to $280 — people often spilt the cost between a party of four, for instance — are ready to take home. Reusable bottles are extra.
Taking a bottle of custom beer over to a friend’s house for dinner or a birthday gift is where it’s at these days, craft beer fans insist bringing a bottle of wine is so 1990s.
It’s part education, part community and part social interaction, said Jeremy Triplett of Hawthorne, who was brewing with a couple of friends one recent Saturday.
The trio played a card game and munched on pizza while waiting for their beer to boil.
“I’ve always wanted to make my own beer,” Triplett said. “It’s cost-efficient and it’s been pretty fun so far. This place makes it seem a lot easier.”
And educational, too, chimed in friend Vanessa Pon of Lawndale, who came straight to Zymurgy — that’s the name for the branch of chemistry related to the fermentation process in brewing — from an accounting class at Cal State Dominguez Hills.
“I feel like I’ve been in class all day,” she said, hoisting a glass.
Do-it-yourself craft beer brewing comes to Torrance at new Zymurgy Brew Works
If you enjoy craft beer and have no clue what the word “zymurgy” means, longtime local educator Bill Baker can give you a little schooling.
The school district employee has opened Zymurgy Brew Works & Tasting Room at 22755 Hawthorne Blvd. in Torrance.
It’s the South Bay’s only do-it-yourself brewing operation where you can rustle up a few friends and spend a leisurely afternoon brewing your own batch of custom craft beer under the supervision of a brewmaster.
“We wanted to explain the craft behind craft beer,” Baker said. 𠇊 lot of people don’t know what goes into brewing — I didn’t.”
Baker and a friend dreamed up the idea over a couple of beers at a local brewery. It isn’t a new idea, of course.
The longtime South Bay resident fondly recalls the long-departed Hamilton Gregg Brewworks, which in the mid-1990s billed itself as the first DIY brewery in the nation.
But the concept was a few years ahead of its time. The craft beer industry had yet to take off like it has today, although Huntington Beach is still home to DIY brewery Brewbakers.
The time had come, Baker reasoned, to try again in the South Bay, now one of the hot spots for the craft brewery industry in Los Angeles County.
Project among friends
So he enlisted the help of a few craft beer buddies — including John Hendrick, an experienced home brewer and his son’s former Little League coach — and the result is the storefront on busy Hawthorne Boulevard.
Brewing beer at home is not only time-consuming, it involves a lot of work, especially when it comes to keeping equipment clean.
“What we’ve tried to do is take out the prepping and the cleaning,” Hendrick said, explaining that six hours of potential drudgery is narrowed down to a more manageable three.
Zymurgy will weigh and mill most of the grains and ensure that the time-consuming process of bringing the 15-gallon kettles up to temperature is done before a customer even walks in the door.
There’s stirring and adding hops and more stirring, but Baker and company literally do the heavy lifting.
That leaves time for a little education — What’s ‘wort’ you may well ask? — and sampling the beer on tap.
In fact, you don’t need to brew to enjoy Zymergy.
The space has a modest bar to sample what others are brewing and tables to bring in your own lunch while watching others brew. Beers also can be purchased to go in glass growlers.
‘It’s all real grain’
Unlike Hamilton Gregg, which used a syrup-like extract instead of milled grain, Zymurgy goes out of its way to strive for greater authenticity.
“It’s all real grain, which is how real breweries brew,” Baker said. “Our goal was to be in line with commercial breweries as much as possible.”
Using grain instead of extract provides a greater degree of control and creativity to the brewing process, Hendrick said.
About the only kind of beer that’s unavailable to brew is a lager.
A lager uses a different and longer brewing process than an ale, and plenty of inexpensive lagers can be found on the shelves of local stores.
But if customers want something specific — say, a session India pale ale using citra hops — Zymurgy can help.
Hendrick has created many of the recipes for available beer styles at home over the years and adapted them to the larger scale Zymurgy uses.
Brewing requires two Zymurgy visits the second involves applying a custom-designed label and bottling your creation. Kegs also are available.
When finished, five to 15 gallons of personalized beer costing $160 to $280 — people often spilt the cost between a party of four, for instance — are ready to take home. Reusable bottles are extra.
Taking a bottle of custom beer over to a friend’s house for dinner or a birthday gift is where it’s at these days, craft beer fans insist bringing a bottle of wine is so 1990s.
It’s part education, part community and part social interaction, said Jeremy Triplett of Hawthorne, who was brewing with a couple of friends one recent Saturday.
The trio played a card game and munched on pizza while waiting for their beer to boil.
“I’ve always wanted to make my own beer,” Triplett said. “It’s cost-efficient and it’s been pretty fun so far. This place makes it seem a lot easier.”
And educational, too, chimed in friend Vanessa Pon of Lawndale, who came straight to Zymurgy — that’s the name for the branch of chemistry related to the fermentation process in brewing — from an accounting class at Cal State Dominguez Hills.
“I feel like I’ve been in class all day,” she said, hoisting a glass.
