A brand new brewery from Solarc Brewing Company is looking to open in Glassell Park, located at 3505 Eagle Rock Blvd.
This will be the company’s first brewery since founders Archie Carey and Saul Alpert-Abrams launched Solarc Brewing in early 2015 as nomadic brewers with a dream of growing to eventually open a community space that can host a number of fermented experiments and performance art events. Now, the pair of owners are getting ready to open near Brian Dunsmoor’s upcoming restaurant. Carey wasn’t able to disclose any additional information, but he says the new brewery won’t be open for at least a couple more months.
Solarc started when the two friends bonded over a batch of mead that they brewed while in the companies current headquarters, a barn like garage in Highland Park. Through its seven years of existence, the brewery has released over 20 different brews all with different herbs, spices, plants, fruits, and/or tea’s. These are all ingredients not often used in today’s average beers and nod to herbal medicine, deep history, and experimental art for inspiration.
“We like to experiment,” according to the company’s website. “It is both humbling and eye-opening. So we make gruits. Gruit is the umbrella term for a medieval style of beer that incorporates many types of bittering agents other than hops. Born from the brewer’s imagination and the necessity of using whatever grew nearby, Gruit is a broad category of beers that experiments with traditional and unique ingredients. Our contemporary vision takes this to its logical and illogical conclusions – we use everything from wormwood to black tea to turmeric to wild yeasts harvested from the Los Angeles surrounds.”
