Smog City Brewing Co.

A small industrial park in Torrance holds this family-run brewery, where the taproom seats drinkers alongside the barrels and tanks and a patio strung with lights adds covered picnic tables outside. Twenty beers rotate on tap, spanning pilsners, IPAs, stouts and barrel-aged wild ales, alongside seltzers, slushies and hop water. Food trucks rotate through on a changing schedule, including a pupusa vendor and a Mexican food truck, and growlers and bottles go home with anyone who wants beer to go.