Smog City West, Salt & Lime + Southland Anniversary
If Smog City Brewing had a motto, it just might be “Here We Grow Again.” The Torrance based brewery from Laurie Porter and Jonathan Porter has a wood cellar across the industrial park from...
Smog City Brewing Quercus Circus
Brewmaster Jonathan Porter and his wife Laurie, who directs sales, marketing and distribution efforts, have built plenty of good will since Smog City Brewing Company started brewing at Tustin Brewing Company in 2011. Friends...
Smog City Brewing Progress Report
Smog City Brewing Company has embarked on the road to owning their own brewery, which leads to Torrance (very close to Monkish Brewing, but more on them later). I arrived to check out the...
Great American Beer Festival 2012 – Live from Denver (Part 3)
California and Los Angeles breweries represented well at the Great American Beer Festival medal ceremony. Smog City Brewing (who is celebrating one year and a new space in Torrance) and co-owner Jonathan Porter won...
Interview: brewmaster Jonathan Porter (Tustin Brewing Company)
Jonathan Porter first embraced craft beer in Philadelphia, where he studied photography at Drexel and gradually worked his way through the city’s delis hunting for prized bottles to mount on the wall. The New...
