These photos were taken Friday afternoon at the Sugar Monkey Social Club, in El Segundo, where they celebrated day one of the Sugar Monkey Brewing Grand Opening. In case you missed my article about their soft open, Sugar Monkey took over the old Upshift Brewing location.

I arrived shortly after they opened and they already had a pretty decent crowd forming, and ‘The Best Umbrella’ pizza, manned by Sugar Monkey’s head brewer, Jason Eich, was cranking out pizzas as fast as his pizza oven would allow.

It has only been a week since my first visit, so the tap list was the same; but Eich assured me a new lager would be coming soon. I noticed a few faces from last week, so apparently they are getting “regulars,” but there were definitely more people that I did not recognize, so I guess they are building their fan base. There were a lot of games there suitable for adults or teens; the most interesting of which (IMHO) is a version of beer pong, but played with golf clubs. I look forward to this game becoming a thing around here.

Sugar Monkey Brewing/Social Club is located at 339 Indiana Street in El Segundo. Their hours are Monday through Thursday from 3:00 to 9:00 PM, Friday from 3:00 to 11:00 PM, Saturday from noon until 11:00 PM, and Sunday from noon until 9:00 PM. They are dog and kid friendly.

Their Grand Opening weekend continues today at noon. Cheers!

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