El Segundo Brewing Co. hits its stride
El Segundo Brewing Company’s Tom Kelley and Rob Croxall. Photo Rob Croxall is a born-and-bred El Segundo man currently living what many would consider the new American dream: he ditched the corporate world and now owns a killer brewery with beers appearing on 45 beer lists full-time and 140 total restaurants and beer houses. Ten years ago, deep into a career in the aerospace industry, he gave home brewing a shot, thanks to a friend at Boeing who passed along a kit to him. With some help from the folks at Culver City Home Brewing Supply, Rob ignited a solid hobby that, over a decade of increased practice and painstaking sampling, began to overshadow his nine to five. His first beer, named simply Blue House Pale Ale in homage to his house, attracted a huge following among his friends as it was perfected into a light entry-level craft brew. ESBC offers “growlers” of beer to go from its tap room. Photo But the pastime likely would have remained as such had it not been for a series of fortuitous developments: Croxall developed a tight relationship with Thomas Kelley, then general manager and Cicerone (beer sommelier) at Library Ale House in Santa Monica; Rob was accepted into the…
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